2 Kings 6:17

17. The Lord opened the eyes of the young man His natural eyes saw only the horses and chariots of Syria, and he could not understand Elisha’s meaning when he said, They that be with us are more than they that be with them. He stood in blank bewilderment, terrified at sight of the enemy’s host, and not knowing what to make of his master’s words. In answer to Elisha’s prayer God opened his spiritual eyes, unvailed his inner sense, and lifted him for a moment to the high plane of Elisha’s supernatural vision, whence he obtained a view of the mighty creations of the spiritual world around him. This sight into the spiritual world was not an instance of hallucination, but a miracle of grace; an instance of that Divine ecstasy or trance in which the holy seers were enabled to behold the visions of the supersensual world, and which consists essentially in this, that the human spirit is seized and com-passed by the Divine Spirit with such force and energy that, being lifted from its natural state, it becomes altogether a seeing eye, a hearing ear, a perceiving sense, that takes most vivid cognizance of things in either heaven, earth, or hell.

The mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire These horses and chariots were there before the young man’s eyes were opened to behold them; and so we may well believe that millions of spiritual beings walk unseen around us, and perhaps minister to us in a thousand ways when we are unconscious of their presence. “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him.” Psalms 34:7. Compare notes on 2 Kings 2:11-12.