Q.There is a story about an axe head that fell into the water in 2 Kings 6. What does that mean?

A.Yeshua said in Luke 24.27 that the Scriptures teach
about Him, so this story is no exception. This story
is found in 2 K 6.1-7) and Elisha (God is salvation)
is a picture of the Father. The story takes place near
Gilgal and that is important (2 K 4.38). Gilgal is
where the kingdom is renewed (1 Sam 11.14-15). Saul is
a picture of Adam/man and he goes with Samuel and is
made king, but we know he falls, just as the first
king Adam and the rest of us have fallen. John the
Baptist has his ministry in the area because the
Kingdom of God has come and he is getting the people
ready for it through immersion, and Yeshua Himself
goes there for immersion ( Jn 1.28). Gilgal has the
same root in Hebrew as "golgotha" and the symbolism is
even clearer. When Israel crossed over the Jordan they
wewre circumcised at Gilgal. Back to 2 K 6, the sons
of the prophets go there to cut some trees and want to
build a place to live, all symbolic of our desire to
"live" spiritually. Elisha goes with them (v3) which
shows that the Lord is also with us. They go to the
Jordan which always means "death" and the trees are
cut down, indicating that we all have sinned (Mt
3.6-10) and live near death. While they are doing this
an axe head falls into the Jordan through an error
(sin). The iron axe head is also symbolic of man (Prov
27.17. So man (axe-head) falls into sin and death
(Jordan) and can't be used. They cry for Elisha (the
Father) in v 5 because it was borrowed which
symbolizes our lives which are "borrowed" and we must
give an account(Deut 19.15; Acts 17.28). Elisha wants
to know where it fell. Man fell in the garden (with
trees) and God also asked "where are you?" (Gen 3.9).
They showed him the place and he cut off a branch.
This symbolizes Yeshua, the branch (Isa 11.1; Zech
6.11-13; Jer 23.5) being "cut off" ( Dan 9.26). The
branch is thrown into the Jordan (death; 1Pet
2.21-24;Psa 69.1-14; Psa 88.6-7,16-18) and the iron
axe-head (man) floats, which means the lost is found
and useable again. In v 7 Elisha tells them to "take
it up for yourself" which means each person must reach
out and take his new, useable life again for himself.
Others can't do it for you. So, in short, the presence
of the wood (Messiah) thrown into the water (death)
leads to a change in the nature of the iron and it
floats (Jn 3.3-16). Man could not be taken down to
death and kept there but his nature needs to be
changed first. We are raised by faith and made useful
again. In Mt 14. 25-33 this story is repeated when
Yeshua, the branch, is in the water with a sinking
Peter (axe-head)and he raises him out of the water and
he is made useable again. I hope this answers your question.