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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

The last two verses of the tell us of the only hope this
strife-torn human race has: the coming of “Elijah.” God says, “I will
send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful
day of the Lord [Jehovah or Yahweh]. And he will turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers” (Mal. 4:5, 6).

That will be the most far-reaching reconciliation we have seen since
(Think how much and all the Middle East needs “Elijah”!)

It’s not idle words. God has made this promise. The sacrifice of Jesus
Christ on His cross is the only reconciling agency in existence;
therefore it follows that the coming of “Elijah” must be proclaiming
the message of Jesus Christ in all His reconciling power. It will be
what unbelieving hearts find almost inconceivable: a proclamation of
what the Bible calls “the atonement” that will work miracles of grace
worldwide. The mention of “fathers” and “children” means the entire
human race in all our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural alienations. A
blessed unity will be realized as people kneel together at the cross of
the Son of God, at last “beholding” or perceiving its full
significance.

No, it will not be 100 per cent successful. It would be, except for one
anti-Elijah-message factor that will intrude: the Battle of Armageddon.
Side by side, two movements will develop--on the one hand, a blessed
reconciliation (“at-one-ment”) of human hearts with each other and with
the heavenly Father, and simultaneously on the other hand, the
exacerbation of enmity between humans and God (Rom. 8:7): it will be
the ultimate polarization of the human race, “the hour of His judgment”
(Rev. 14:6). No one will be neutral.

A big job for one “prophet” to accomplish! The already-translated
Elijah (2 Kings 2:1, 11) will be “sent” to do the work worldwide as he
was sent personally to encourage Christ at His Transfiguration (Matt.
17:1-3). (That was a work of reconciliation!) Elijah will have
“144,000” to help him (Rev. 14:1-5).

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