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NASB | Malachi 4:5 ¶ "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Malachi 4:5 ¶ "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. [Matt 11:14; 17:10-13] |
Subject: Elijah would return |
Bible Note: Elijah would return and turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to the children. Some people think this was fulfilled by John the Baptist (see Matthew 17:10-13), since the names Elias and Elijah are sometimes interchangeable. But Matthew 17 cannot refer to Malachi 4, because: Matthew 17 refers to a prophecy that Elias who would restore all things, Malachi does not. Malachi refers to an Elijah who would link parents and children. Matthew does not. John himself (John 1:21) said he was not Elias. So presumably there was more at least two Eliases – one referred to in Matthew and one in John, which had not yet returned. The fulfillment of the prophecy in Malachi 4:5-6 occurred when Elijah appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in 1836, and sure enough world-wide interest in keeping records of births and deaths and in tracing genealogy mushroomed from that period. |
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