So, Elisha turned back from Elijah and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen's equipment and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and became his servant. I Kings 19:21
Elijah is a type and shadow of the Lord Jesus and Elisha is a type and shadow of the future church with twelve apostles who left their livelihood to follow Jesus. In the previous scripture Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal, Jezebel's own prophetic voice!
Elijah told the prophets to build an altar and sacrifice a bull and he would do the same and the God who answered by fire would be God. And so, it was Elijah prepared the wood on the altar and the sacrifice and poured water upon the wood, the stones, the sacrifice, and it filled a trench around the altar.
The prophets of Baal cried out to their god all day as they cut themselves and Elijah mocked them until the time of the evening sacrifice. Elijah then called upon God and asked that He hear him so that this people would know that He is Lord! This is a type and shadow of the church to come in the future when the fire of Holy Spirit would fill His people!
Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, He is God! The Lord He is God!" I Kings 18:38,39
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ