I was curious....some say it was John the Baptist, but when the Disciples asked Jesus in Matthew 17:11 about Elijah, Jesus said "Elijah truly shall first come and restore all things.But I say unto you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.
If Elijah had already come, and they did not know him, and he truly shall come, what is it that he is to restore, and what are the things that were going to fall that had to be restored?
2007-09-28 15:16:25 · 2 answers · asked by monemarcos 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus quoted Malachi’s prophecy of a messenger who would prepare the way and applied it to John the Baptizer. In other words, John the Baptizer was Elijah in the sense that he carried out a work comparable to that of Elijah.( Malachi 4:5, 6)
2007-09-28 15:45:30 · answer #1 · answered by conundrum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elijah has returned in this dispensation to restore the keys of the power to seal families for all eternity. He has turned the hearts of the children to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to their children.
2007-09-29 16:48:48 · answer #2 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋