The Elijah Work
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible Day of the Lord.” (Malachi 4:5)
“And He answered them and said, “Elijah is coming and will restore all things; but I say to you Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished...” (Matthew 17:11-12)
Beloved, there are many parallels found in the events that led up to and surrounded the coming of the Son of God at the fulfillment of Passover and the events that shall lead up to another “coming” or manifestation of Christ in our day. One of these things is the coming of the spirit of Elijah to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Before Jesus came on the scene 2000 years ago, John the Baptist had come in the spirit and power of Elijah as Christ’s forerunner, prophesying and preaching to the people of their need to repent (change their minds) so that they might be prepared for the Lord’s coming. John was the son of a priest and could have found a career in the old religious order, yet he was called by God to minister outside the walls of the established system of organized religion, and thereby he was also outside of the jurisdiction and fellowship of the blind religious leaders of his day. Some of the common people listened to John and received what he had to say to them, but the Scribes and the Pharisees came only to mock and ridicule him as a strange (so-called) “New Order" fanatic.
Dear friends, this same scenario is being played out once again in our day as the Lord prepares His people for His coming at Tabernacles. God has a prophetic ministry in the land crying out for the church to prepare for the next stage of the Kingdom, but the leaders of the religious systems and institutions of men have caused many of their followers to fear this prophetic ministry. But some of God’s people (just a remnant) are listening to their spirit which now bears witness with the modern day "Voice in the Wilderness,” and these are coming out of the harlot systems of religion now and coming into an acceptance of the truth in preparation for the manifestation of the (corporate) Son at Tabernacles.
Beloved, the scriptures reveal to us that it will be the spirit of Elijah that will bring restoration to God’s children as a preparation for the coming age, and this by anointing true apostolic and prophetic leadership in the church which will ultimately destroy that which has kept God’s children in bondage to religion and false doctrine, specifically, the so called "leadership" that is in agreement with a religious spirit that opposes the prophetic word of the Lord today. In Old Testament type, this is seen very clearly in Elijah’s confrontation with Ahab, Jezebel, and the false prophets of Baal.
Dear Christians, there is a spirit of Elijah with an exemplary prophetic character that is wholly separated unto God and therefore has a confident knowledge of His ways. This is the spirit that shall come upon a small group of people in the end of this age for the purpose of preparing a much larger group of people for the age to come. I imagine that those anointed with this spirit will have the same authority and even the audacity that Elijah and John had in their respective days, and this so that these servants can perform the last day's "Elijah Work" which will be a confrontation of a church system that has become apostate.
Thanks and appreciation given here to Art Katz