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Whatever God wanted the Church to experience was recorded in His Word as promises. When the Scriptures speak about events, which would come to pass, like wars, earthquakes and natural catastrophes, we are dealing with predictions. We were promised a true prophet of the likes of Elijah. The many false prophets and Christs were also predicted. We are now living at the end of the time of grace and have the right, even the obligation, to know what God has promised and does.

Let us look at the two promises given in connection with the first and also the second coming of Christ. Mal. 3: 1 was fulfilled with the ministry of John the Baptist. The Lord Jesus Himself said it so very clearly, “But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.” (Mt. 11: 9-10). Secondly, we have the promise, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ...” (Mal. 4: 5). The prophecy of Mal. 4: 5-6 the Lord Jesus placed into the future, after John had finished his ministry, as seen in Mk. 9: 12 and Mt. 17: 11, “Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things.”

John came onto the scene at the beginning of the Day of Salvation. The last prophet has to appear at the end of the Day of Salvation, before the judgements strike the earth, before the sun turns into darkness and the moon into blood (Isa. 13: 6-16; Joel 2: 31; Zeph. 1: 14-18; Acts 2:
19-21; 1 Th. 5: 2; 2 Pt. 3: 10; Rev. 6: 12-17). That is the plain truth according to the Thus saith the Lord in His Word.

Whoever has the slightest insight into God’s Plan would know that the time of grace is the Day of Salvation, as announced in the Old Testament (Isa. 42: 6; Isa. 49: 6-8). It is the day the Lord has made (Ps. 118: 24), the day that Abraham saw and rejoiced over (Jn. 8: 56). “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (Jn. 14: 20).

Of John the Baptist it is written, “There was a man sent from God ... The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.” (Jn. 1: 6-7). Not through a multitude of evangelists should all truly believe, as they have their different opinions, but through the ministry and message of the man sent from God according to the promise . That is how it was in all ages and also how it happened this time. God does not change His Word or His ways.

In John 1: 19 is recorded, that a delegation was sent to John the Baptist to ask him personally who he was: “And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet, Isajah. And they who were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet ?” (vv. 20-25). He was not Elijah, not Christ and not the prophet of Dt. 18: 15-19. The Elijah-question was just as clearly answered as the one whether he was Christ or the prophet. His ministry was part of the Plan of Salvation and he knew what applied to him.

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