2 Kings 6:32-7:2
"32 Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”33 And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the Lordany longer?”
7 But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.” 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”"
Elisha's response to the threats of the king is a prophecy of mercy for the beleaguered people. Not that fear drove him to utter it - after all, it was not he, but God, Who had sent the famine, and Who alone could ease it when it was His will to do so. The man who was conscious of the unseen hosts of the Lord encamping around him was not likely to be put out by the threats of any man. God had revealed His purposes to him and he was able to say with confidence that a miraculous change in the situation would take place within twenty-four hours. This, Elisha knew, would present no kind of difficulty to the Lord, although he probably did not know just how it would be done, he did not need to know this, he had enough experience of God's surprises to realise that however He did it, it would perfectly meet the need. But the king and his courtiers were frankly incredulous and openly ironical in their reaction to his word (2). But Elisha knew that heaven was all windows to one that had faith, and he rebuked their unbelief, and warned the contemptuous noble that he would pay dearly for his skepticism. The seriousness of this unbelief is seen when it is set against the mighty works that the Lord had wrought by the instrumentality of the prophet. The fact is, their continuing sin had hardened them to the extent that they were incapable of belief, even when they could see the hand of God at work in their midst. This is the ultimate issue of sin and its final condemnation.