Please read the passage before the commentary.
Elisha was a man of God. Who were others called Man of God? Moses is often called a Man of God, not so much in the Pentateuch, but in the time leading up to the rise of David the King. In one sense it is an anti-monarchial term. It could be similar to a “1776 Party,” one dedicated to dissolving the enmity between Democrats and Republicans.
When you notice the term Man of God in the text, you should be calling to mind the wondrous times leading up to the origins of God’s people in the desert, much as the Fourth of July might call us to remember “the slavery” we endured under George III.
Interestingly the New Testament refers to Jesus as Son of Man and not a[1]s Man of God. If the term Man of God elevates the human to a godlike position, the term Son of Man shows how God looked upon our humanness and elevated it to the divine evel. So the Son God became a Son of Man to make us all People of God.
Now whoever welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet receives a prophet’s reward. In this way the Shunammite woman becomes a mother of a son. Therefore, whoever someone receives a disciple of the Son of Man will not lose his reward.
It would be great to be associated with Moses, the man of God, or with David the King or Elijah or Elisha, but it is more important to be associated with the Son of Man, the one did not consider being divine something to be grasped at, but who humbled himself accepting humanness even to the point of dying for us.
The Son of God lifts us up to share in Christ’s divinity. Now, when we hear references to Man of God or Son of Man we can include ourselves that reference.
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