2 Chronicles 21

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says the Lord God of your father David:  Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah, v.12

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This is the only occurrence in the books of the Chronicles we have of Elijah.  Elijah was a prophet to the kings of Israel and as mentioned before the Chronicles focus on the kings of Judah.  The interesting thing though is that Elijah is already gone from earth by this point.  Elijah was translated up to heaven during the time of Jehoshaphat yet by this point in 2 Chronicles 21 Jehoshaphat is already dead and his son Jehoram is reigning in his place.  So how then did this letter come about?  Some believe that there was a spelling error and should have been Elisha who sent it, others believe that the chronology isn't exact and Elijah is very very old and therefor had to write this letter than travel to speak to the king.  Yet what I more believe is that he wrote this prophetic writing before he went up to heaven and had it delivered at this particular time.  I mean he was a prophet and prophets revealed the future of what God wanted to through them.  I wonder if Jehoram received this letter before he committed such wickedness that he would have not gone through with his evil works?  Can you even imagine the shock for Jehoram to get a letter, that is so clearly to him, from a prophet that is no longer on earth?  Who is someone in your life that is already dead that you wish had a letter for you, not so much like the one to Jehoram telling of his wickedness and death, but one of wisdom or decisions for your life?