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Cal Thomas writes a syndicated column in which yesterday he seriously appealed to the leadership of the Christian community. “What is it with evangelical Christians that so many of them need a cause beyond the commission they’ve been given?.... Evangelicals should pursue.... higher virtues instead of settling for the lower life of politics..... Let them return to the eternal message that has been given them to share with a world that needs it now more than ever. That is a message which ‘cleans up’ the inside of the hearts of men and women......”

 

Thanks to this messenger from the Tribune Media Services! He may not realize that he echoes the message of the man who the Lord says He will send “before [His] great and dreadful day,” “the prophet Elijah” (Mal. 4:5, 6). The prophet was famous for lopping off the heads of 450 “prophets of Baal” at the “brook Kishon” (1 Kings 18:40), so that we’re all rather afraid of his return. We read that John the Baptist fulfilled the prophecy for the people of Christ’s day (Matt. 11:12-15); but that was not the “great and dreadful day of the Lord,” which will be only at the second coming of Christ. That means that “Elijah” as a message is due any day now at some new “Mt. Carmel.” And just as the scribes and Pharisees failed to recognize “him” in John the Baptist long ago, so today “we” stand in mortal danger of getting mixed up with the “450” who are immersed in Baal worship and don’t realize where they are in God’s sight.

 

In the last analysis, “Baal worship” was and is the worship of self disguised as the worship of Christ, so it can be and often is an unconscious lapse.

 

But “Elijah” is not yearning to chop heads off. Read the prophecy in Malachi: he comes to “turn.... hearts” in a blessed Day of Atonement reconciliation, a healing of alienation of heart from God, and also from one another. This is the message this newspaper columnist recognizes must be proclaimed to the world. “Elijah” will do it, for God has promised. Let’s not resist him as Jezebel and Ahab did!

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