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Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse
Malachi 4:4-6
As in Malachi 4:4-6, it's some hard news indeed to be told that the hearts of the fathers must return to the children. Then too must the hearts of the children return to the fathers lest the Lord should come and with him a curse instead of a blessing at all. See, at the mention of Moses given as the spiritual forefather of Israel, some other issues are at hand. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved of John 3:17-18. What then of Moses in need of a Savior or yet the spiritual children of such still bent after their own way. Now that God is in the house, there appears to be need for a cleansing indeed. Perhaps you may know to seek the Lord while he is still yet to be found. But what if he's already hid, my friends, and with it all your hopes for tomorrow. As we see in Elijah's life, he is hiding right in plain sight. Rather it is the sins and iniquities and other things we put before him that cloud up our vision my friends. How we should rather let God be our vision as the old song says and not to trust in our own. So then, if the spiritual fathers should repent, then are the children in need of that too. If by some fashion, the spiritual children should be found righteous too, then it seems the fathers are the ones in need of correction. It goes much after this fashion as seen in Revelation 3. At the last, it shows the spiritual mother Jezebel gathered with all her children. The burden then falls first on the spiritual mother for repentance then unto the children not to follow after. Only God could bring about the switch, my friends.
So it seems the focus is not on Elijah at all, but rather the Lord. How many know what he shall bring about whether a curse or a blessing, which is all some of us ever really wanted in the first place. Notice how this writing comes from Elijah as though back from the past. Here the progression of the father's is neither logical nor in any set order save only by number of righteousness and sin. For so these make up the spiritual forefathers who started the sin, whose examples you follow much as Sarah whose children you are. Sure you might not like it and it might not be comfortable right now. But see what comes of putting another in God's place. Sometimes he has to correct you gently as a father would his wayward child. Other times he must take such notions even by force. See too how Elijah comes bearing marks of the Lord, but he is not say our LORD himself. Is it not funny that those who spend time in his company often appear to be the most like him. I find it odd, for he has not even appeared yet we already see him as he truly is albeit with a different set of eyes. Maybe some of you aren't too sure. Look with me at it a moment if you will. There's command of the time, knowledge of the past, future, and past, the sending of letters to odd places after divers fashion, power from on high, conviction of sin, the judgment, and knowledge of the living yet eternal Word of God. Come on now, my friends. Should it come as a surprise to any that his children appear like him walking as though by his side themself. What then of the manner of his taking, caught up in that chariot of fire, borne off to glory, or even his appearance but for a moment with the Lord ever so long ago. You might wonder at it. But have you heard the end of the matter, how the Lord blessed Job after that he had been tested. Come with me now if you have not and if you have come all the same. There is great darkness over the matter that perhaps he would shed some light on. For the Lord himself is the light of that place having no more need for any sun. Then again unto a people that once walked in darkness the light now shines.