Deuteronomy 33:1 states “This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.” And 1 Kings17:18 “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah,”what have you done to me? 

Both Moses and Elijah are titled ‘a man of God’. Moses’ leads the Hebrews out of Egypt into freedom and responsibility; and Elijah leads Israel, and then all humanity, to Messianic freedom and responsibility.  Prophet Malachi 4:5–6 states: “See, I will send the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord coming. He (Elijah) will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse”. 

According to Malachi 4:6, the reason Elijah returns to “turn the hearts” of fathers and their children to each other.” To this day, Jewish seders include an empty wine-cup or chair at the Passover table in anticipation that Prophet Elijah will return to herald the coming Messiahs in fulfillment of Malachi’s words.

Prophet Elijah never died (2 Kings 2:11), and many rabbis taught that Elijah was still alive and would reappear to help before the Messiah’s arrival. As Malachi prophecies for the Hebrew Scriptures, he (Malachi) records God’s announcement that (God) is the Lord and affirmed that He (God) would send His messenger to prepare his path, and then He would appear in His Temple (Malachi 3:1) to “send Prophet Elijah to you (all) before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes” (Malachi 4:5).

The coming of the day of the Lord was announced by Prophet Isaiah as destruction from the Almighty (Isaiah 13:6; Joel 1:15). Because everyone was to be terrified (Isaiah 13:7). The day of the Lord will be a day of fury and burning anger (Isaiah 13:8). A time when the lights in the heavens will be greatly disturbed (Isaiah 13:10), and the world will be visited with judgment (Isaiah 13:11). 

The day of the Lord will be a day of clouds (Ezekiel 30:3), darkness (Amos 5:18, 20), and gloom, like nothing that has ever happened before nor will happen after that day (Joel 2:2). The day of the Lord will be a great and awesome day that no one can endure (Joel 2:11). The day of the Lord will be accompanied by great wonders in the sky and on earth, and, before that day arrives, God will darken the sun and the moon (Joel 2:31). 

It will be a day of justice, in which fair judgment will be meted out to all nations (Obadiah 1:15). Even in those awesome times, anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved (Joel 2:32). And the day of the Lord is near, and it will come quickly when it is time (Zephaniah 1:7, 14).

On the day of the Lord, the Lord of Hosts will have a time of reckoning. AI will be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted (Isaiah 2:12, 17). God’s beauty and glory will be evident to all (Isaiah 4:2). In that day the remnant of Israel will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 10:20). In that day, there will be giving of thanks and making His deeds known among the nations (Isaiah 12:4).

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