2110.—Elijah the Prophet.
If Elijah the prophet refers to God's people in the last days, preparing the way for Christ's second advent, to whom does the 'you' refer in the expression, 'Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come'? Mal. 4:5. F. A. H. The 'you' refers to the great religious world. Those thru whom God will give His special message are those who may be raised up in the religious world to give that message. Isaiah 58:12 expresses it: 'And they that shall be of thee shall build up the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.' The whole chapter refers to God's people in the last days, scattered as they are thru the whole earth; and yet there will be a class raised up among them, referred to by 'they that shall be of thee,' and that body is referred to as the 'thou' that 'shall raise up the foundations of many generations;' and of that body Elijah is the type. God always sends His messages first to the church—those who profess His name: 'Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble.' All His disciples were from among the Jews, and they gave their message first to Jerusalem, then to Judea and Galilee, then to Samaria, and out into the great regions beyond.