Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
This weekend a special conference of alert Christian people is gathering in a small church almost hidden in “the wildwood” in
You remember the last two verses of the great Old Testament where the LORD declares: “I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” But Elijah’s work will be different than the popular idea of a stern disciplinarian who chops off the heads of the prophets of Baal. He will minister a message of reconciliation: “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers.” That of course cannot be unless he also “turns the hearts” of husbands and wives, and love will be reawakened.
Such “turning hearts” is what the word “atonement” means; here is God’s prophecy of the greatest ministry of heart-reconciliation the world has ever known since the days of Jesus. Elijah’s message is the solemn call of the great antitypical Day of Atonement that closes the work of Christ as the world’s High Priest. It’s the “Loud Cry” of the angel of Revelation 18.
Then the next event on God’s agenda is the close of human probation and the second coming of Christ. That will be the day which to those who have rejected this heart-reconciliation will be “the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”
But the one heart that most needs “turning” is hers who figures as the Heroine in the drama of Revelation 19:7, 8—the alienated “Bride-to-be” of the Lamb, whose “marriage” has been long delayed due to her heart coldness toward Him. It’s a world church that hasn’t yet learned to recognize her own identity, to see herself as she appears pathetically on the stage of the universe.
The scholars and leaders of such a world church have long debated how the heart of such a massive corporate “body” can be “turned” and melted in personal but also corporate contrition. Let’s not be unbelieving; unbelief here becomes the sin of the ages. “Elijah” will do what seems impossible.
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