S3E2: Elisha and the She-Bears

A group of youth makes fun of the prophet, Elisha.  They call him, “Baldy.”  It seems like a harmless, although snarky, comment.  It would perhaps warrant a sharp reproof, but certainly nothing more than that.  But what comes later is straight out of a horror movie.  Bears from out of nowhere, mauling these young youths to death, tearing them limb from limb.  The Old Testament is littered with these types of stories.  Are they just mindless, acts of violence with no foundation or continued meaning?  That doesn’t sound like our God.  And besides all that, Jesus must be found in the Old Testament.  He is there:  golden thread woven through, bloody red spots splattered on every page.  So where is Jesus in a text like this?  Where is the Gospel?  Where is the cross?  It’s all there.  Let’s find our where.