Elijah and Elisha, Michael D. O’Brien
IN our day, I believe God has placed the “mantle” of the prophet of Elijah on many shoulders throughout the world. This “spirit of Elijah” will come, according to Scripture, before a great judgment of the earth:
Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with doom. Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day. (Mal 3:23-24)