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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

In 6000 years of history with untold billions of people, the Bible tells of only two who have been spared death: Enoch, and Elijah. Even the divine Son of God had to die. Of the first we read: “By faith Enoch was translated so that he did not see death, ‘and was not found because God had translated him’ [Gen. 5:24]; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God” (Heb. 11:5). How did he “please God”? We have this simple word: “And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Gen. 5:24). His walk with God was totally unselfish ministry to his fellow men. His last day on earth was like his first in heaven; he was at home with heaven’s companionship. Paul says there will be a multitude like him translated without seeing death when Jesus returns in the clouds of heaven (1 Thess. 4:16, 17). They are not monks holed up in a monastery in the desert; they are living in the midst of earth’s multitudes, loving people as Christ loves them.

 

The only other person so translated was “the prophet Elijah” whom God promised He will send us “before the great and terrible day of the Lord” (Mal. 4:5, 6). But why does He send Elijah rather than Enoch? Obviously, to do again what Elijah did in Ahab’s Israel long ago: (1) to “turn again” the hearts of His people. The new “Elijah” will plead with them, “We implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor. 5:20); and if we’re reconciled to God by the blood of Christ, we will be reconciled to one another “in Him.” Elijah’s message will be “Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:1, 2)—the most glorious proclamation of the full truth of the gospel heard by the world since Pentecost.

 

Then (2), Elijah will also “behead” the modern “prophets of Baal” after it is clear that they refuse to repent. You remember at Mt. Carmel, after the 450 devotees of Satan’s Baal worship stubbornly refused to repent even after the fire fell on the mountain, Elijah reluctantly ordered their destruction because they were a poison to the world (1 Kings 18:38-40). A wise writer speaking of the coming crisis said, “Frequent will be the apostasies of men who have occupied responsible positions.” “The great issue so near at hand will weed out those whom God has not appointed, and He will have a pure, true, sanctified ministry prepared for the latter rain.” “Elijah,” ancient or modern, is only good news.

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