Elijah

I realize my posts have been sporadic at best here the last few weeks. Part of that is because I am teaching a Primary class, and trying to keep up with my Sunday readings I have little time to blog about my actual findings during my scripture study time. (aka children's nap time and clean house time)

But since this blog is more for ME than you, :) I don't feel too bad.

Anywho, onto one of my favorite people from the Old Testament: Elijah.

He is the man!

Seriously.

"What would you think about a man who had the power to raise the dead, call down fire from heaven, cause the heavens to withhold rain, and render a barrel of flour inexhaustible?

Elijah was such a man, a man of power, a man of miracles, a prophet so worthy that he was translated and taken from the earth in a chariot of fire.

Small wonder that Elijah became one of the great heroes in Israel’s history. Small wonder, too, that in Jewish households a place is set for him at every Passover feast in anticipation of his return as predicted by the prophet Malachi (see Malachi 4:6)." (Old Testament LDS Institute Student Manual)

Don't worry he already came back house of Judah. You can stop setting the table for him, he appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery at the Kirtland Temple April 3, 1836. (D&C 110:13-16)

He was entrusted with the keys of turning the "hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers." (Malachi 4:6)

Just a little power that seals families together for all eternity. Only in our temples. Just one phrase that is the ONLY one mentioned in every one of our four books of scripture today.

The Old Testament (Malachi 4:6)

New Testament (Luke 1:17)

Book of Mormon (3 Nephi 25:6)

and

D&C (D&C 110:15)

He must have been something special for God to entrust him with that. And tomorrow we will talk about just that.