Part 2 - The Return of Elijah - The Spirit of Elijah

Shane Vaughn Teaches; The Return of Elijah - The Spirit of Elijah - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFbY3KQPO6Y Transcript: (00:03) we're going to go to the Book of Malachi 4 verse 5 through verse 6 now I want to tell you a little bit about me those of you that don't know us um and those of you that think you do but you really don't I am fourth generation Pentecostal now let me explain what that means my grandmother my great grandmother my mother all holy ghost filled fire baptized from the roots of ausa street that is where I come from and I cling to my roots as long as those roots cling to the word of Yahweh but several years ago about five years ago we begin to (00:52) understand that not only did we need to cling to the Pentecostal roots of our faith but even past those roots were some deeper roots and it's the Hebrew roots of our faith that so many Christians know so little about and truly it has changed my walk with my heavenly father I didn't even realize I had a heavenly father in those days but one of the benefits of growing up in the Pentecostal church we had a great love for Bible prophecy and we heard some of the greatest Bible prophecy teaching concerning Daniel and the the seven (01:33) horns and all of those things that taught us about the coming of the Lord irin Baxter and I could go down the line so many wonderful teachers but in in in recent weeks I've come to understand that perhaps the greatest of our Bible teachers missed a very important point and I want to bring what I believe tonight is one of the greatest understandings of how close we are to the coming of our Messiah and it's going to be found in the Book of Malachi 4 verse 5 I hope you'll turn there in your Bibles this is not a (02:16) sermon this is a Bible study where on Sabbath night all of the family gets together the family of Israel and we study the word of Yahweh together let's read Malachi 4 verse five uh and verse number six praise the Lord now before we read that remember I'm reading from a different version than some of you may have behold I will send Elijah the law and the prophets which is the strength of Yahweh the name Elijah remember this the meaning of a name is more important than the name now why do I say that because we got people fighting over how to say (03:08) the sacred name it's embarrassing to watch get the intent of the name right and then you've got the name right remember God desires for you to desire to know his name more than he does that you can correctly pronounce his name keep that right there because this junk is getting out of control but the word Elijah the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh now what do you think of when you think of the strength of Yahweh do you think of timidity do you think of quietness do you think of um ashamed do I don't I think of an ox I (03:55) think of plowing I think of combative I think of strong the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh keep that in your mind as we continue to study behold I'm sending the strength of Yahweh before the coming of the great and Dreadful day of Yahweh he said if you want to know if I'm about to return look across the land and see if you see Elijah now sadly many people have looked for a man rather than the meaning of the name Elijah the meaning is the strength of Yahweh he says just before the coming of the Lord you're going to see Rise up (04:54) in the earth a strength that you've not seen before there will be a voice that will rise up that's afraid of nobody that has the strength of a mule and the T the tenacity of an ox there's going to be a strong anointing that rest upon the men and the women of Yahweh just before the coming of our God verse six and what will it do it will turn the hearts of the father mothers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers and before I come and strike the Earth with a curse utter destruction will come in the day of Yahweh now the (05:51) reason people do not care about the day of Yahweh they have been lied to So Long by dispensational preachers that have convinced us all in times past that we would not be here during the day of Yahweh but that we unlike our predecessors would be vacuumed out of here into some hole in the sky and we would escape the terror that was coming upon the earth that is a Lie from the pit of Hell and you can tell somebody I said so because the word says so Yahweh says before my day and he's going to have a day when he strikes the Earth (06:38) with a curse before that day comes something must happen everybody's caught up in these blood moons and I have no problem with that everybody's looking to the sky and I have no problem with that but I dare say that very few are looking for the true sign of the coming of the son of man now the strange thing about this verse in Malachi is Elijah already came thousands of years before Elijah wrote this verse how can these things be because Elijah is not a man Elijah is the strength of Yahweh Elijah is the the voice of one crying in the wilderness (07:35) prepare ye the way of the Lord don't get your thinking messed up when you hear the word Elijah I want you to change your thinking and hear these words the strength of the almighty God go with me to Matthew chapter 17 we have hundreds watching us right now and I thank you from the bottom of my heart this lesson is not for the faint of heart if you love church but you don't love prophets if you love church but you don't love truth you may not like what's coming your way but truth will set you free Matthew chapter (08:17) 17 if you're watching join us for the Feast of Tabernacles in South Carolina we're going to be there with the first harvest Association of ministers and if you want to be around Holy Ghost field commandment keeping men and women you need to go ahead and book your room as quickly as possible go to our website first harvest church. (08:42) org to register Matthew 17 and verse 10 let's read it then the disciples asked him saying why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first see they could not accept that yua was here because the prophets had all said that before yua came Elijah would come but yet they had been walking around Israel and nobody had seen Elijah but yet here's the Messiah it seems to be out of sequence and out of order but listen how yua answered them in verse 11 Yeshua said unto them Elijah truly will come and restore all things now notice he said (09:38) will come yua said in this verse that there was going to be another coming of Elijah he says Elijah will come and he will restore all things now there's two traits of Elijah I want I want you to take note the first trait of Elijah is the strength of Yahweh the next trait of Elijah is he is all about restoration of things that have fallen down he's coming to restore he's not coming to start a new religion he's coming to repair an old religion Hallelujah listen verse 12 but then yua messes them up again and he says but I (10:32) say unto you Elijah the strength of Yahweh has come already now notice the two phases of Elijah that yua recognizes but your church does not yua says Elijah will come and he has come future and present that which is and was and is to come that notice that because the church has forgotten that he said Elijah will come and he said he came already but you did not recognize him but you did whatever you pleased you heard his message but you didn't recognize that that man was more than a man he was a strength of Yahweh a (11:36) restorer of truth and you missed it you missed it because you thought he was crazy you missed it because you thought he was a quack you missed it because you failed to recognize what he was saying was more than a man's message he said you did whatever you wanted to do with him in the same way the son of man will be persecuted like Elijah was so what is the third trait of Elijah the first one the strength of Yahweh the second one a restora the third one persecuted by whom who was Yeshua talking to the leaders of the church the (12:26) leaders of religion the leaders of men that were walking in yesterday's truth they saw Elijah come but they didn't know who he was talking about until finally it dawned on them that he was speaking about John the Baptist or yakan the immerser they knew immediately because they knew that he came in the spirit and the mind and the mantle of Elijah now let's go to Isaiah 40 quickly turn in your Bibles my time will run out very soon Isaiah 40 1-5 now let's read this Comfort my people says the father speak comfortably (13:14) to Jerusalem and announc to her that her sentence has expired that her iniquity is pardoned that she has received from yahweh's hand double for all of her sins the voice when will Jerusalem find Comfort he said speak to Israel and comfort her and tell her about the ministry of a man that is coming and he tells her in verse three the voice of him who cries in the wilderness prepare ye the way of Yahweh Hallelujah make straight in the desert a highway for your father every Valley will be exalted and every Mountain will be made low crooked places (14:11) will be made straight and rough places will be made plain for the Salvation of Yahweh is revealed notice this he told Israel Isaiah prophesied to Israel he said listen Israel Rejoice I'm going to tell you when your sins will be blotted out when you hear a Voice Hallelujah when you hear a voice and it's not it's a voice unlike the priest and the leaders of the church it's a voice that's coming from a Barren place it's a voice of a man that has no pedigree he has no backing he has no Prestige he has nobody that believes in him but he's got (14:58) a voice it's a strong voice it's a voice that makes enemies mad and Friends get confused he's going to come and make straight the Crooked places in Israel he's going to rearrange the house of Israel and he is coming as a voice so trait number four Elijah is a voice remember that Elijah is a strong voice there are certain ministers that carry an authority in their voice it's the glory of their anointing it's in their voices it shakes rooms when they walk in why because there is an anointing on their voice to cause Israel to hear the word of the (15:56) Lord amen and notice what he says after this voice comes and after he makes the Crooked way straight and after he cleans up the church then notice what he said in verse five then the salvation of Yahweh will be revealed brothers and sisters what does the name salvation of Yahweh equate to in Hebrew yua Yahweh is salvation he said after you hear hear this voice you will see yua coming on that great day I want to say this to every one of you watching me and I want to make it plain that while we are waiting for the (16:43) ministry the return Ministry of the Messiah The Returned Ministry of Christ Yeshua cannot and will not happen without the return Ministry of Elijah without the return of a voice of one notice Elijah was the voice of one he wasn't part of the many he was a lonely voice oh let me tell you something I want you to hear me right now he was kicked out of every Church in Israel Jezebel kicked him out because his voice was so compelling it demanded people to hear what he had to say I have a lot of friends that tell me probably I've see (17:35) three or four of you watching now they tell me they say Shane I love you but every Christmas I un I unfriends you for about a month so you'll quit driving us crazy about those hellish Christmas trees Hallelujah well let me explain something one day you'll not be able to say that you did not hear a voice it wasn't a voice that has a lot of backing it was a voice of a flawed man and those of you that are watching me that have the spirit of Elijah on your life most of you are flawed most of you you have history you have a past You Came From A (18:12) wilderness which is a broken place you have nothing to offer in the way of the church but in the way of God you have plenty please tell this on the mountaintops tell it everywhere you can without the restoration of the Elijah Ministry the Messiah will not return it would be out of order how many knows that Yahweh is a god of order everything with him is sequential it is rhythmic it is so perfect and it never fails if Elijah has to come first then why are you looking for the Messiah while ignoring the voice of one crying (18:58) in the Wilderness there are some of you watching me right now you're crying out I see your videos I see you brother mcar and I see you sister Cheryl I see you brother Ricky I see you brother Tim F I see I I can't name names but I see all of you lifting those voices declaring this end time message now the reason that people don't understand Malachi chapter five chapter 4 is because they don't understand what they the day of the Lord is you know the Bible speaks more about the day of the Lord than it does about the Son of God absolutely if (19:37) you go read the law and the prophets it mentions the day of the Lord more than the coming of Messiah as a child and what's so sad is the church is clueless about the day of the Lord let me prove it to you shall I right now when the sun set a few moments ago the day of the Lord began what day is he Lord of he's Lord of one day hassatan Satan flesh is Lord of six days but there's one day out of the week that yua has claimed as his own do you know why cuz it only takes him one day to mess up six to to clean up six days of mess ups he's just amazing (20:25) like that he's lord of the seventh day that's why every Seventh Day He commands us to come into celebration to be reminded of the fact that the day of the Lord is coming the 7,000th year is coming and we celebrate it every seventh day so when we talk about the voice of Elijah how it must come before the day of the Lord brothers and sisters do you know what time it is do you understand that the tick tock on the big clock is at the moment approaching the seventh day do you know what time it no you don't or you'd be (21:04) living right you'd be keeping Sabbath you'd be at all the commanded assemblies you'd be walking in Holiness you'd be walking in sanctification preparing for the seventh day so the reason people don't know about Elijah they don't know about the day of the Lord brothers and sisters you're in the day of the Lord right now it started at Sunset it is a shadow of things to come oh yeah the great seventh day is coming that's why we started off with a chofar because that day the Trump of God will begin that day and it will begin with (21:40) gross Darkness that's why we begin the Sabbath in the period of Darkness we start at Sunset because it reminds us that the darkness is coming upon the face of the Earth but there will be light Hal hosiah in the evening time there will woo there will be light in the evening there will be a voice just before the darkness begins and that voice is in the land today can you hear it are you part of it or do you fail to recognize what's happening all around you while you're having Church while you're building a Congregation of do nothings While You're (22:26) Building people that just want to be saved and don't have any idea why they're saved because the kingdom of God is coming to our planet and there is a voice declaring it that voice is making straight the Crooked places it's trying to turn first day into seventh day it's trying to get everything I'm meddling now I'll stop now let's continue on because I want to get to some very valid points the reason that he's lord of the Sabbath let's go to Acts chapter 3 3 and 21 Acts 3 and verse 21 I'll take questions at the end of this lesson if (23:06) you're making comments I can't see them right now because they distract me in a good way but I will go back when we're done and we will open the the floor for anyone that wants to comment let's read Acts 3 and 21 shall we now this is talking about yua whom the Heaven Must hold back until till the time of the restoration of all things about which Yahweh spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began now hold on when will the heavens read that verse again that verse says that right now the heavens are literally holding back the (23:56) Messiah he cannot return when people tell you the Lord could come at any moment that is the biggest bunch he comes on time and if you don't understand holy days and anointed and appointed times then you don't understand when he's coming we know when he's coming he came right on time at Tabernacles for his birth he came right on time at Pentecost for the infilling of his church he's going to come right on time Hallelujah for his people now notice what this says but the heavens are holding him back until when at the (24:34) restoration at the restoration of all things and who did Yahweh say in the Book of Malachi would restore when wooo Hallelujah the Bible said Elijah was coming to do what restore all things the Bible said that heaven was holding yua back until when Elijah comes somebody listen to me now how long is Yeshua being held back I want you to hear me please I beg you to listen what I got to say have you ever been to a wedding have you ever been to a wedding you can have guests at the wedding you can have the building you can have the decorations you can (25:27) have the brides made and you can have the best men and you can have the preacher and you can have the groom the groom but there's one thing you cannot have a wedding without you got to have a bride you cannot have a wedding without a bride yua would have already returned if his bride had been perfected by the voice of Elijah the Bible said he's being held back until the restoration who's going going to do the restoring Elijah The Voice the lonely voice that cries in the wilderness what Wilderness what did the Bible say there would be a (26:10) famine of in the last day the word of God the church is the Wilderness good God I'm so Pentecostal I'm about to lose it up here the church is the Wilderness of dry bones the V the the church is the Wilderness that the the spirit of Roman Catholicism the spirit of Babylon has infiltrated put the church to sleep made her so greasy with grace that sin slips right through it that Wilderness that Wilderness of sin in that Wilderness of voice is going to cry out prepare the way of Yahweh and it's that Ministry it's that voice that's going to unleash (26:57) the Messiah so that he can come back for a perfected bride a commandment keeping Holy Ghost filled spirit and Truth bride Hallelujah when is Elijah promised to come yesu said in verse 10 behold Elijah will come and restore all things before the Sabbath day the millennial Reign is the is the Sabbath day and just before that day that's why if you're not a Sabbath keeper I want to say this and I say it with the deepest love and respect that I can until I understood the Sabbath day I understood nothing I mean that I was Holy Ghost (27:50) filled fire baptized running the AIS and Swinging From chandeliers but until I understood the Sabbath day and the Mysteries contained within it and the holy until I got it I didn't know anything and if you're watching me and if you don't keep the holy days you don't even know what time it is children listen the day of Yahweh could have began 2,000 years ago oh yeah two days ago two days ago it could have began why did the day of the Lord not begin 20 th years ago because they failed to recognize Elijah and yua they didn't recognize him (28:39) no sir they ignored him they ignored his voice now watch this I want to read to you exactly when our Lord is coming Hosea 6 and verse 2 would you go there in your Bible I want to slow down for those of you that want to find these scriptures again at the end of this lesson I'll take questions and I will answer them I will stay with you tonight on this family gathering as we study the word of y'all together read Hebrews 6 and2 and after two days he will revive us and in the third day he will raise us up and we will live (29:22) in his sight that's talking about the resurrection after two days what did that mean when Israel rejected Messiah 2 days ago 2,000 years ago here is a Bible prophecy that says after 2,000 years or two days he is going to restore us he's going to restore us what is the Bible say yua is waiting for in the heavens the restoring of all things and who's going to do the restoring Elijah and who is Elijah the strength of Yahweh the voice of strong strength that's doing what preparing the way of the Lord hallelujah we're getting so many (30:11) comments I'm so sorry so I love man I love I love you folks you are the cream of the crop you are the best of the bunch you are faithful commandment Keepers to our God and I'm so thankful for every single one of you that are watching with us tonight now I want to take you if you don't mind and I want to go a little bit further with this what is the spirit of Elijah have you heard that y John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah one of the greatest understandings that I've ever received in my calling is when I came to (30:48) understand what the word Spirit really means the word spirit is a little mystical it's a little foggy but the truth is the spirit of a man is the mind of a man not the brain but that Supernatural part that reasons that makes you separate from an animal so the spirit of Elijah is the mind of Elijah and what does a mind do it thinks there is a generation Rising that's going to think like Elijah oh yeah they're going to have the spirit or the mindset or the thinking or the anointing of Elijah and what did Elijah (31:34) do Elijah changed people Elijah changed Nations Elijah changed people he started schools for the prophets Elijah was an element of change he changed everywhere he went he prepared the way he was a Pioneer a forerunner and that spirit's in the Earth today many are missing it but listen to me there is a voice in the wilderness today saying prepare the way of the Lord now what does that mean he prepared the way the Hebrew word for prepared is pan pan means to make a turn or to restore or to turn back Hallelujah woo (32:21) glory be to the almighty God Elijah is going to have a turn Ministry the spirit of Elijah will make you turn so far around even those people in your church will think you've lost your mind they'll mock you they'll criticize you but listen he's coming to prepare the way to turn now what does the word way mean in Hebrew it's the word direct where we get the word direction Elijah will come and completely change your direction yeah see when you hear the voice of Elijah you'll be living in Babylon you'll love your religion you'll love (33:06) your roots you'll love your church but when Elijah comes you'll fall in love with truth he'll turn you from your Traditions to the word instead of you proud to be Baptist or proud to be Pentecostal or proud to be Church of God you'll be a word bride you'll be a bride of the word you will F that's what the ministry of Elijah does they pull you out of Babylon and put you on the straight and narrow path that starts at Passover and goes all the way to Tabernacle now how does God change his people when Yahweh gets ready to (33:49) change his church how does he do it he doesn't do it with a week-long Revival he does not do it with the ministry of an evangelist or a pastor no he sends Elijah he has always prepared his people for his coming with the voice of Elijah or the thinking of Elijah turning us back to the Commandments of God that's called preparing the way Yahweh has already he loves the spirit of Elijah so much he's used it three times already and he's he's using it now for the fourth time when was the first time oh when Elijah himself entered into Israel the church (34:34) and you know even though there was 7,000 prophets of Baal I mean there were 7,000 I'm sorry Israelites that loved Yahweh only Elijah confronted the leadership only Elijah confronted Jezebel and Ahab do you know who Ahab was he was the pastor of Israel he was the king he was the pastor of the church he was the leader you know who Jezebel was she was a woman preacher now I don't mean that in a bad way cuz that's not what I'm saying here but she was the daughter of the priest of uh her her father was uh uh well Jezebel was the daughter of King (35:13) ethb eball was the high priest of aarte or Ishtar or the Queen of Heaven which is where we get Easter from so Jezebel brought Easter into Israel she brought isar our worship in now see God's fine with paganism God has no problem with it he's going to deal with it one day until it comes into his church Israel the moment it comes in he'll send an Elijah to get it out what's the first thing Elijah did when he came into the church baby you want to know the first thing he did he started tearing down Pagan altars (35:49) pagan holidays Pagan celebrations Pagan Sundays Pagan everything that was contrary to the ways of Israel he came and tore down their churches my God he did what do you think the altars were that he tore down that was their churches of that day Elijah tore them down then he killed 400 Pagan preachers brother V you need more wisdom you need to be nicer to people I've tried you need to speak your words with gentleness we've tried it look where the church is you need to be more kind we've tried it Elijah said enough already give me a (36:34) sledgehammer these Pagan altars are coming down and then he turned to Ahab and prophesied to Ahab he confronted leadership he did what Yahweh called him to do and no he didn't like it but you know what else I know about a Elijah he was such a broken man he was so human and yet God was with him he was so human he let a woman scare him he ran for 16 miles the next day because Jezebel threatened his life I want to tell you don't you ever fail to hear the voice of Elijah through men that you think are broken Elijah failed in many ways but his voice (37:17) was anointed now listen the spirit of Jezebel if you've been called to this Elijah Ministry there will always be a jezebel in your life to destroy your influence what was the next time that the spirit of Elijah came don't you remember Elisha what did he ask Elijah for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and Elisha spent the rest of his ministry destroying things that were contrary to the word of God and then the third time that that Spirit came the third time that it came was in John the Badness when he said make straight (38:00) repent and make straight I want to read to you out of the book of First Kings 18 and verse 21 I want to show you what the voice of Elijah does stay with me please don't leave yet I promise you we're almost through and I'll answer questions first Kings 18 and 21 listen to what the message of Elijah Was Elijah said to the church when will you stop going back and forth between two doctrines if yahe is the mighty one then follow him but if the church then follow the church that's the voice of Elijah have you heard that voice lately have you (38:47) heard his voice lately on YouTube on Facebook have you seen him among all of I hear him I hear him every day as a blade I hear the voice of Elijah saying how long will you love the false teachings of the church and love Yahweh how long that's what the voice of Elijah sounds like he'll make you choose one or the other and you will block him on Facebook you'll you you'll cut him off on YouTube you'll do everything to get his voice out of your mind but there's one thing you can never do to Elijah you can never unhear what he had to say (39:25) hallelujah now let's come down to my closing I want you to notice before we go let's go to Luke 1 13-1 17 now remember the angel what did mik what did Malachi say Elijah would do let's talk about this he would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers before the day of the Lord that's the day we're living in but what does that mean let's find out let's go to Luke 1 verse 13 and I'm going to answer that question for you before we answer other questions Luke 13:17 if you're watching us and you (40:04) would like to be part of an association of ministers that are uniting in spite of difference we've just formed a wonderful Fellowship we would love for you to join with us it's called the first harvest Association of ministers we call it Fam Family why don't you get to know us go to first harvest church. (40:25) org Luke 1:3 here the angel of the Lord spoke to Mary and I'm sorry Elizabeth about John the Baptist and here's what Elizabeth said or the angel said verse number 13 but the angel said to him do not be afraid Zachariah for your prayer has been heard your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son you will call his name yakan which is John you will have joy and gladness and many Will Rejoice at his birth and he will be great in the sight of Yahweh and will drink neither strong drink for he will be filled with the holy ghost from his (41:13) mother's womb the work I'm doing in her belly is the Holy Ghost doing it and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the fathers I mean he will turn I'm sorry he will turn the fathers to the children now notice where the angel stops notice that Malachi tells us that John that Elijah would do two things but the angel only mentioned one that this that this Elijah would do that he would just turn the fathers to the children but Malachi said there would be two things so so what's going on here I'll tell you what's going (41:54) on here the first Eli this Eliah and John he wasn't coming to turn the children to the father he was coming to turn the fathers to the children what does that mean he was going to point those that were Bound in Judaism the fathers of Israel Abraham Isaac and Jacob he was going to cause them to look Beyond Judaism and see yua and in yua the Lost tribes would come the children of Israel would turn back would turn he would call the fathers through yua to reach out to the Lost tribes but then when the final voice of Elijah comes he will do just (42:38) the opposite he will cause the Lost tribes to turn their hearts back to Israel that's what's happening in our day the voice of Elijah is calling you out do you know how many Christians I talk to every day that do not know that they are an Israelite they laugh at us when they see the toed around our shoulder or hear us play the chaar or see the manora and I don't get upset they don't know who they are they have an identity crisis but the voice of Elijah is going to cause in this generation men and women to turn (43:15) their hearts from their denomination to turn their hearts from their Christian tradition and it's going to turn them back to the fathers of Israel that is the day we are living in now in closing my final verse Luke 4 go with me to Luke chap 4 and I'm not going to read this but I want you to read it later Luke 4 and 17 I want you to read this later now verse 17 and yua takes up the book and he begins to read and I want you to notice at verse 21 and verse 20 he closed the book verse vers 19 he came to preach the acceptable (44:01) year of Yahweh but if you go compare that to Isaiah 612 through n there's more to his ministry and it's to preach the Vengeance of our God he's not done that yet Elijah has not turned the hearts of the children to the father and yua has not come and preached the day of Vengeance of our God like Isaiah go compare Isaiah 61 2-9 to Luke 4:1 17-21 and see if there's not something missing brothers and sisters I declare to you tonight as I begin to open this up for any questions you might have I declare to you now that the voice (44:43) of Elijah is in our Earth today the ministry of Elijah is here restoration Linda Crawford is here brother Ricky Ezra it's here we're living living in the moments darling sister Von that truth and spirit the two witnesses are here I wished I had time to bring this message on I tell you what I'll do tomorrow if I if I'm able I'll teach on the two witnesses I'll bring us from the spirit of Elijah and I'll bring it to the two witnesses and I'll show you I'll prove to you that the two witnesses are on the Earth right now (45:32) now we're going to go to the Book of Malachi chapter 4 verse 5 through verse 6 now I want to tell you a little bit about me those of you that don't know us um and those of you that think you do but you really don't I am fourth generation Pentecostal now let me explain what that means my grandmother my great grand mother my mother all holy ghost filled fire baptized from the roots of auua street that is where I come from and I cling to my roots as long as those roots cling to the word of Yahweh but several years ago (46:18) about five years ago we begin to understand that not only did we need to cling to the Pentecostal roots of our faith but but even past those roots were some deeper roots and it's the Hebrew roots of our faith that so many Christians know so little about and truly it has changed my walk with my heavenly father I didn't even realize I had a heavenly father in those days but one of the benefits of growing up in the Pentecostal church we had a great love for Bible prophecy and we heard some of the greatest Bible prophecy teaching (46:59) concerning Daniel and the the seven horns and all of those things that taught us about the coming of the Lord Irvin Baxter and I could go down the line so many wonderful teachers but in in in recent weeks I've come to understand that perhaps the greatest of our Bible teachers missed a very important point and I want to bring what I believe to tonight is one of the greatest understandings of how close we are to the coming of our Messiah and it's going to be found in the Book of Malachi 4 verse 5 I hope you'll turn (47:43) there in your Bibles this is not a sermon this is a Bible study where on Sabbath night all of the family gets together the family of Israel and we study the word of Yahweh together let's read Malachi 4 verse 5 uh and verse number six praise the Lord now before we read that remember I'm reading from a different version than some of you may have behold I will send Elijah the law and the prophets which is the strength of Yahweh the name Elijah remember this the meaning of a name is more important than the name now why do I say that because (48:35) we got people fighting over how to say the sacred name it's embarrassing to watch get the intent of the name right and then you've got the name right remember God desires for you to desire to know his name more than he does that you can correctly pronounce his name keep that right there because this junk is getting out of control but the word Elijah the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh now what do you think of when you think of the strength of Yahweh do you think of timidity do you think of quietness do you think of um (49:19) ashamed do I don't I think of an ox I think of plowing I think of combatted I think of strong the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh keep that in your mind as we continue to study behold I'm sending the strength of Yahweh before the coming of the great and Dreadful day of Yahweh he said if you want to know if I'm about to return turn look across the land and see if you see Elijah now sadly many people have looked for a man rather than the meaning of the name Elijah the meaning is the strength of Yahweh he says just before (50:19) the coming of the Lord you're going to see Rise up in the earth a strength that you you've not seen before there will be a voice that will rise up that's afraid of nobody that has the strength of a mule and the T the tenacity of an ox there's going to be a strong anointing that rest upon the men and the women of Yahweh just before the coming of our God verse 6 and what will it do it will will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers and before I come and strike the (51:12) Earth with a curse utter destruction will come in the day of Yahweh now the reason people do not care about the day of Yahweh they have been lied to so long by dispensational preachers that have convinced us all in times past that we would not be here during the day of Yahweh but that we unlike our predecessors would be vacuumed out of here into some hole in the sky and we would escape the terror that was coming upon the earth that is a Lie from the pit of Hell and you can tell somebody I said so because the word says so Yahweh (52:00) says before my day and he's going to have a day when he strikes the Earth with a curse before that day comes something must happen everybody's caught up in these blood moons and I have no problem with that everybody's looking to the sky and I have no problem with that but I dare say that very few are looking for the true sign of the coming of the son of man now the strange thing about this verse in Malachi is Elijah already came thousands of years before Elijah wrote this verse how can these things be because Elijah is not a man Elijah is (52:54) the strength of yah way Elijah is the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord don't get your thinking messed up when you hear the word Elijah I want you to change your thinking and hear these words the strength of the almighty God go with me to Matthew 17 we have 100 watching us right now and I thank you from the bottom of my heart this lesson is not for the faint of heart if you love church but you don't love prophets if you love church but you don't love truth you may not like what's (53:41) coming your way but truth will set you free Matthew chapter 17 if you're watching join us for the Feast of Tabernacles in South Carolina we're going to be there with the first harvest Association of ministers and if you want to be around Holy Ghost filled commandment keeping men and women you need to go ahead and book your room as quickly as possible go to our website fir Harvest church. (54:11) org to register Matthew 17 and verse 10 let's read it then the disciples asked him saying why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first see they could not accept that yua was here because the prophets had all said that before yua came Elijah would come but yet they had been walking around Israel and nobody had seen Elijah but yet here's the Messiah it seems to be out of sequence and out of order but listen how Yeshua answered them in verse 11 Yeshua said unto them Elijah truly will come and restore all things now notice he said (55:08) will come yua said in this verse that there was going to be another coming of Elijah he says Elijah will come and he will restore all things now now there's two traits of Elijah I want you to take note the first trait of Elijah is the strength of Yahweh the next trait of Elijah is he is all about restoration of things that have fallen down he's coming to restore he's not coming to start a new religion he's coming to repair an old religion Hallelujah listen verse 12 but then Joshua messes them up again and he says (56:01) but I say unto you Elijah the strength of Yahweh has come already now notice the two phases of Elijah that yua recognizes but your church does not Yeshua says Elijah will come and he has come future and present that which is and was and is to come that notice that because the church has forgotten that he said Elijah will come and he said he came already but you did not recognize him but you did whatever you pleased you heard his message message but you didn't recognize that that man was more than a man he was a strength of Yahweh a (57:05) restorer of truth and you missed it you missed it because you thought he was crazy you missed it because you thought he was a quack you missed it because you failed to recognize what he was saying was more than a man's message he said you did whatever you wanted to do with him in the same way the son of man will be persecuted like Elijah was so what is the third trait of Elijah the first one the strength of Yahweh the second one a restorer the third one persecuted by whom who was yua talking to the leaders of the church the leaders (57:56) of religion the leaders of men that were walking in yesterday's truth they saw Elijah come but they didn't know who he was talking about until finally it dawned on them that he was speaking about John the badst or yakan the immerser they knew immediately because they knew that he came in the spirit and the mind and the mantle of Elijah now let's go to Isaiah 40 quickly turn in your Bibles my time will run out very soon Isaiah 401 through five now let's read this Comfort my people says the father speak comfortably (58:43) to Jerusalem and announce to her that her sentence has expired that her iniquity is pardoned that she has received from yahweh's hand double for all of her sins the voice when will Jerusalem find Comfort he said speak to Israel and comfort her and tell her about the ministry of a man that is coming and he tells her in verse three the voice of him who cries in the wilderness prepare ye the way of Yahweh Hallelujah make straight in the desert a highway for your father every Valley will be exalted and every Mountain will (59:39) be made low crooked places will be made straight and rough places will be made plain for the Salvation of Yahweh is revealed notice this he told Israel Isaiah prophesied to Israel he said listen Israel re joice I'm going to tell you when your sins will be blotted out when you hear a Voice Hallelujah when you hear a voice and it's not it's a voice unlike the priest and the leaders of the church it's a voice that's coming from a Barren place it's a voice of a man that has no pedigree he has no backing he has no Prestige he has nobody (1:00:25) that believ beles in him but he's got a voice it's a strong voice it's a voice that makes enemies mad and Friends get confused he's going to come and make straight the Crooked places in Israel he's going to rearrange the house of Israel and he is coming as a voice so trait number four Elijah is voice remember that Elijah is a strong voice there are certain ministers that carry an authority in their voice it's the glory of their anointing it's in their voices it shakes rooms when they walk in why because there is an anointing on their voice to (1:01:21) cause Israel to hear the word of the Lord amen and notice what he says after this voice comes and after he makes the Crooked way straight and after he cleans up the church then notice what he said in verse five then the salvation of Yahweh will be revealed brothers and sisters what does the name salvation of Yahweh equate to in Hebrew yua Yahweh is is salvation he said after you hear this voice you will see yua coming on that great day I want to say this to every one of you watching me and I want to make it plain that while we are waiting for the (1:02:13) ministry the return Ministry of the Messiah the return Ministry of Christ yua cannot and will not happen without the return Ministry of Elijah without the return of a voice of one notice Elijah was the voice of one he wasn't part of the many he was a lonely voice oh let me tell you something and I want you to hear me right now he was kicked out of every Church in Israel Jezebel kicked him out because his voice was so compelling it demanded people to hear what he had to say I have a lot of friends that tell me probably I've see (1:03:04) three or four of you watching now they tell me they say Shane I love you but every Christmas I un I unfriend you for about a month so you'll quit driving us crazy about those hellish Christmas trees Hallelujah well let me explain something one day you'll not be able to say that you did not hear a voice it wasn't a voice that has a lot of backing it was a voice of a flawed man and those of you that are watching me that have the spirit of Elijah on your life most of you are flawed most of you you have history you have a past You Came From A (1:03:42) wilderness which is a broken place you have nothing to offer in the way of the church but in the way of God you have plenty please tell this on the mountaintops tell it everywhere you can without the restoration of the Elijah Ministry the Messiah will not return it would be out of order how many knows that Yahweh is a god of order everything with him is sequential it is rhythmic it is so perfect and it never fails if Elijah has to come first then why are you looking for the Messiah while ignoring The Voice of one crying in the (1:04:28) wilderness there are some of you watching me right now you're crying out I see your videos I see you brother mclin I see you sister Cheryl I see you brother Ricky I see you brother Tim I see I I can't name names but I see all of you lifting those voices declaring this end time message now the reason that people don't understand Malachi chapter 5 chapter 4 is because they don't understand what the day of the Lord is you know the Bible speaks more about the day of the Lord than it does about the Son of God absolutely if you (1:05:07) go read the law and the prophets it mentions the day of the Lord more than the coming of Messiah as a child and what's so sad is the church is clueless about the day of the Lord let me prove it to you shall I right now when the sun set a few moments ago the day of the Lord began what day is he Lord of he's Lord of one day hassatan Satan flesh is Lord of six days but there's one day out of the week that yua has claimed as his own do you know why cuz it only takes him one day to mess up six to to clean up six days of mess ups he's just amazing (1:05:54) like that he's Lord of the seventh day that's why every Seventh Day He commands us to come into celebration to be reminded of the fact that the day of the Lord is coming the 7,000th year is coming and we celebrate it every 7th day so when we talk about the voice of Elijah how it must come before the day of the Lord brothers and sisters do you know what time it is do you understand that the tick tock on the big clock is at the moment approaching the seventh day do you know what time it is no you don't or you'd be living right you'd be keeping (1:06:35) Sabbath you'd be at all the commanded assemblies you'd be walking in Holiness you'd be walking in sanctification preparing for the seventh day so the reason people don't know about Elijah they don't know about the day of the Lord brothers and sisters you're in the day of the Lord right now it started at Sunset it is a shadow of things to come oh yeah the great seventh day is coming that's why we started off with a chofar because that day the Trump of God will begin that day and it will begin with gross Darkness that's why we begin the (1:07:12) Sabbath in the period of Darkness we start at Sunset because it reminds us that the darkness is coming upon the face of the Earth but there will be light Hal hosiah in the evening time time there will woo there will be light in the evening there will be a voice just before the darkness begins and that voice is in the land today can you hear it are you part of it or do you fail to recognize what's happening all around you while you're having Church while you're building a Congregation of do nothings why you're building people that (1:07:57) just want to be saved and don't have any idea why they're saved because the kingdom of God is coming to our planet and there is a voice declaring it that voice is making straight the Crooked places it's trying to turn first day and the seventh day it's trying to get everything I'm meddling now I'll stop now let's continue on because I want to get to some very valid points the reason that he's lord of the SA abbb let's go to Acts 3 and 21 Acts 3 and verse 21 I'll take questions at the end of this lesson if you're making comments I can't see them (1:08:38) right now because they distract me in a good way but I will go back when we're done and we will open the the floor for anyone that wants to comment let's read Acts 3 and 21 shall we now this is talking about yua whom the Heaven Must hold back until the time of the restoration of all things about which Yahweh spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began now hold on when will the heavens read that verse again that verse says that right now the heavens are literally holding back the Messiah he cannot return When people tell you (1:09:29) the Lord could come at any moment that is the biggest bunch he comes on time and if you don't understand holy days and anointed and appointed times then you don't understand when he's coming we know when he's coming he came right on time at Tabernacles for his birth he came right on time at Pentecost for the infilling of his church he's going to come right on time Hallelujah for his people now notice what this says but the heavens are holding him back until when at the restoration at the restoration of all things and who did (1:10:10) Yahweh say and the Book of Malachi would restore when wooo Hallelujah the Bible said Elijah was coming to do what restore all all things the Bible said that heaven was holding yua back until when Elijah comes somebody listen to me now how long is Yeshua being held back I want you to hear me please I beg you to listen what I got to say have you ever been to a wedding have you ever been to a wedding you can have guests at the wedding you can have the building you can have the decorations you can have the bridesma and you can have the (1:10:59) best men and you can have the preacher and you can have the groom the groom but there's one thing you cannot have a wedding without you got to have a bride you cannot have a wedding without a bride yua would have already returned if his bride had been perfected by the voice of Elijah the Bible said he's being held back until the restoration who's going to do the restoring Elijah The Voice the lonely voice that cries in the wilderness what Wilderness what did the Bible say there would be a famine of in the last day the word of God the (1:11:43) church is the Wilderness good God I'm so Pentecostal I'm about to lose it up here the church is the Wilderness of dry bones the V the church is the wilderness that the the spirit of Roman Catholicism the spirit of Babylon has infiltrated put the church to sleep made her so greasy with grace that sin slips right through it that Wilderness that Wilderness of sin in that Wilderness a voice is going to cry out prepare the way of Yahweh and it's that Ministry it's that voice that's going going to unleash the Messiah so that he can come (1:12:29) back for a perfected bride a commandment keeping Holy Ghost filled spirit and Truth bride Hallelujah when is Elijah promised to come Yeshua said in verse 10 behold Elijah will come and restore all things before the Sabbath day the millennial rain is the is the Sabbath day and just before that day that's why if you're not a Sabbath keeper I want to say this and I say it with the deepest love and respect that I can until I understood the Sabbath day I understood nothing I mean that I was Holy Ghost Field fire baptized running the aisles (1:13:22) and Swinging From chandeliers but until I UND stood the Sabbath day and the Mysteries contained within it and the holy until I got it I didn't know anything and if you're watching me if you don't keep the holy days you don't even know what time it is children listen the day of Yahweh could have began 2,000 years ago oh yeah two days ago two days ago it could have began why did the day of the Lord Lord not began 2,000 years ago because they failed to recognize Elijah and yua they didn't recognize him no sir they ignored him they ignored his (1:14:12) voice now watch this I want to read to you exactly when our Lord is coming Hosea 6 and verse 2 would you go there in your Bible I want to slow down for those of you that want to find these scriptures again at the end of this lesson I'll take questions and I will answer them I will stay with you tonight on this family gathering as we study the word of yah together read Hebrews 6 and2 and after two days he will revive us and in the third day he will raise us up and we will live in his sight that's talking about the (1:14:53) resurrection after two days days what did that mean when Israel rejected Messiah 2 days ago 2,000 years ago here is a Bible prophecy that says after 2,000 years or two days he is going to restore us sh he's going to restore us what is the Bible say yua is waiting for in the heavens the restoring of all things and who's going to do the restoring Elijah and who is Elijah the strength of Yahweh the voice of strong strength that's doing what preparing the way of the Lord hallelujah we're getting so many comments I'm so sorry so I love (1:15:42) man I love I love you folks you are the cream of the crop you are the best of the bunch you are faithful commandment Keepers to our God and I'm so thankful for every single one of you that are watching with us tonight now I want to take you if you don't mind and I want to go a little bit further with this what is the spirit of Elijah have you heard that joh John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah one of the greatest understandings that I've ever received in my calling is when I came to understand what the word Spirit really (1:16:21) means the word spirit is a little mystical it's a a little foggy but the truth is the spirit of a man is the mind of a man not the brain but that Supernatural part that reasons that makes you separate from an animal so the spirit of Elijah is the mind of Elijah and what does a mind do it thinks there is a generation Rising that's going to think like Elijah oh yeah they're going to have the spirit or the mindset or the thinking or the anointing of Elijah and what did Elijah do Elijah changed people Elijah changed (1:17:09) Nations Elijah changed people he started schools for the prophets Elijah was an element of change he changed everywhere he went he prepared the way he was a Pioneer a forerunner and that spirit's in the Earth today many are missing it but listen to me there is a voice in the wilderness today saying prepare the way of the Lord now what does that mean he prepared the way the Hebrew word for prepared is pan pan means to make a turn or to restore or to turn back Hallelujah woo glory be to the almighty God Elijah is (1:17:55) going going to have a turn Ministry the spirit of Elijah will make you turn so far around even those people in your church will think you've lost your mind they'll mock you they'll criticize you but listen he's coming to prepare the way to turn now what does the word way mean in Hebrew it's the word direct where we get the word direction Elijah will come and complete ly change your direction yeah see when you hear the voice of Elijah you'll be living in Babylon you'll love your religion you'll love your roots you'll love your church (1:18:38) but when Elijah comes you'll fall in love with truth he'll turn you from your Traditions to the word instead of you proud to be Baptist or proud to be Pentecostal or proud to be Church of God you'll be a word bride you'll be a bride of the word you will F that's what the ministry of Elijah does they pull you out of Babylon and put you on the straight and narrow path that starts at Passover and goes all the way to Tabernacle now how does God change his people when Yahweh gets ready to change his church how does he do it he (1:19:21) doesn't do it with a week-long Revival he does not do it with the ministry of an evangelist or a pastor no he sends Elijah he has always prepared his people for his coming with the voice of Elijah or the thinking of Elijah turning us back to the Commandments of God that's called preparing the way Yahweh has already he loves the spirit of Elijah so much he's used it three times already and he's he's used it now for the fourth time when was the first time oh when Elijah himself entered into Israel the church and you know even though there (1:20:05) were 7,000 prophets of Baal I mean there were 7,000 I'm sorry Israelites that loved Yahweh only Elijah confronted the leadership only Elijah confronted Jezebel and Ahab do you know who Ahab was he was the pastor of Israel he was the king he was the the pastor of the church he was the leader you know who Jezebel was she was a woman preacher now I don't mean that in a bad way cuz that's not what I'm saying here but she was the daughter of the priest of uh her her father was uh uh well Jezebel was the daughter of King ethal ebal was the (1:20:45) high priest of aarte or Ishtar or the Queen of Heaven which is where we get Easter from so Jezebel brought Easter into Israel she brought istar Worship in now see God's fine with paganism God has no problem with it he's going to deal with it one day until it comes into his church Israel the moment it comes in he'll send an Elijah to get it out what's the first thing Elijah did when he came into the church baby you want to know the first thing he did he started tearing down Pagan altars pagan holidays Pagan celebrations Pagan Sundays Pagan (1:21:24) everything that was contrary to the ways of Israel he came and tore down their churches my God he did what do you think the altars were that he tore down that was their churches of that day Elijah tore them down then he killed 400 Pagan preachers brother V you need more wisdom you need to be nicer to people I've tried you need to speak your words with gentle we've tried it look where the church is you need to be more kind we've tried it Elijah said enough already give me a sledgehammer these Pagan altars are (1:22:05) coming down and then he turned to Ahab and prophesied to Ahab he confronted leadership he did what Yahweh called him to do and no he didn't like it but you know what else I know about a Elijah he was such a broken man he was so human and yet God was with him he was so human he let a woman scare him he ran for 16 miles the next day because Jezebel threatened his life I want to tell you don't you ever fail to hear the voice of Elijah through men that you think are broken Elijah failed in many ways but his voice (1:22:47) was anointed now listen the spirit of Jezebel if you've been called to this Elijah Ministry there will always be a jezebel in your life to destroy your influence what was the next time that the spirit of Elijah came don't you remember Elisha what did he ask Elijah for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and Elisha spent the rest of his ministry destroying things that were contrary to the word of God and then the third time that that Spirit came the the third time that it came was in John the Baptist when he said make straight (1:23:30) repent and make straight I want to read to you out of the book of First Kings 18 and verse 21 I want to show you what the voice of Elijah does stay with me please don't leave yet I promise you we're almost through and I'll answer questions first Kings 18 and 21 listen to what the message of Elijah Was Elijah said to the church when will you stop going back and forth between two doctrines if Yahweh is the mighty one then follow him but if the church then follow the church that's the voice of Elijah have you heard that voice lately have you (1:24:17) heard his voice lately on YouTube on Facebook have you seen him among all of I hear him I hear him every day as a blade I hear the voice of Elijah saying how long will you love the false teachings of the church and love Yahweh how long that's what the voice of Elijah sounds like he'll make you choose one or the other and you will block him on Facebook you'll you'll you'll cut him off on YouTube you'll do everything to get his voice out of your mind but there's one thing you can never do to Elijah you can never unhear what he had (1:24:53) to say Hallelujah now let's come down to my closing I want you to notice before we go let's go to Luke 1 13- 17 now remember the angel what did Mike what did Malachi say Elijah would do let's talk about this he would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers before the day of the Lord that's the day we're living in but what does that mean let's find out let's go to Luke chap 1 verse 13 and I'm going to answer that question for you before we answer other questions Luke 13:17 if you're watching us and you (1:25:33) would like to be part of an association of ministers that are uniting in spite of difference we've just formed a wonderful Fellowship we would love for you to join with us it's called the first harvest Association of ministers we call it Fam Family why don't you get to know us go to first harvest church. (1:25:56) org Luke 1 verse 13 here the angel of the Lord spoke to Mary and I'm sorry Elizabeth about John the Baptist and here's what Elizabeth said or the angel said verse number 13 but the angel said to him do not be afraid Zachariah for your prayer has been heard your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son you will call his name yakan which is John you will have joy and gladness and many Will Rejoice at his birth and he will be great in the sight of Yahweh and will drink neither strong drink for he will be filled with the holy ghost from his mother's womb the work I'm doing in (1:26:44) her belly is the Holy Ghost doing it and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the fathers I mean he will turn I'm sorry he will turn the fathers to the children now notice where the angel stops notice that Malachi tells us that John that Elijah would do two things but the angel only mentioned one that this that this Elijah would do that he would just turn the fathers to the children but Malachi said there would be two things so so what's going on here I'll tell you what's going on here the first Eli this Elijah in (1:27:28) John he wasn't coming to turn the children to the father he was coming to turn the fathers to the children what does that mean he was going to point those that were Bound in Judaism the fathers of Israel Abraham Isaac and Jacob he was going to cause them to look Beyond Judaism and see yua and in yua the Lost tribes would come the children of Israel would turn back would turn he would cause the fathers through yua to reach out to the Lost tribes but then when the final voice of Elijah comes he will do just the (1:28:08) opposite he will cause the Lost tribes to turn their hearts back to Israel that's what's happening in our day the voice of Elijah is calling you out do you know how many Christians I talk to every day that do not know that they are an Israel light they laugh at us when they see the toed around our shoulder or hear us play the chofar or see the manora and I don't get upset they don't know who they are they have an identity crisis but the voice of Elijah is going to cause in this generation men and women to turn their hearts from their (1:28:45) denomination to turn their hearts from their Christian tradition and it's going to turn them back to the fathers of Israel that is the day we are living in now in closing my final verse Luke chap 4 go with me to Luke chapter 4 and I'm not going to read this but I want you to read it later Luke 4 and 17 I want you to read this later now verse 17 and yua takes up the book and he begins to read and I want you to notice at verse 21 and verse 20 he closed the book verse 19 he came to preach the acceptable year of Yahweh but if you go compare that to (1:29:33) Isaiah 61 2-9 there's more to his ministry and it's to preach the Vengeance of our God he's not done that yet Elijah has not turned the hearts of the children to the father and yua has not come and preach the day of Vengeance of our God like Isaiah go compare is Isaiah 61 2-9 to Luke 4:1 17-21 and see if there's not something missing brothers and sisters I declare to you tonight as I begin to open this up for any questions you might have I declare to you now that the voice of Elijah is in our Earth today the ministry of (1:30:17) Elijah is here restoration Linda Crawford is here brother Ricky Ezra it's here we're living in the moments darling sister Von that truth and spirit the two witnesses are here I wished I had time to bring this message on I tell you what I'll do tomorrow if I if I'm able I'll teach on the two witnesses I'll bring us from the spirit of Elijah and I'll bring it to the two witnesses and I'll show you I'll prove to you that the two witnesses are on the Earth right now we're going to go to the Book of Malachi 4 verse 5 through verse 6 now I (1:31:09) want to tell you a little bit about me those of you that don't know us um and those of you that think you do but you really don't I am fourth generation Pentecostal now let me explain what that means my grandmother my great grandmother my mother all holy ghost filled fire baptized from the roots of auua street that is where I come from and I cling to my roots as long as those roots cling to the word of Yahweh but several years ago about five years ago we begin to understand that not only did we need to cling to the Pentecostal roots of our (1:31:55) faith but even past those roots were some deeper roots and it's the Hebrew roots of our faith that so many Christians know so little about and truly it has changed my walk with my heavenly father I didn't even realize I had a heavenly father in those days but one of the benefits of growing up in the Pentecostal church we had a great love for Bible prophecy and we heard some of the greatest Bible prophecy teaching concerning Daniel and the the seven horns and all of those things that taught us about the coming of the Lord (1:32:36) irin Baxter and I could go down the line so many wonderful teachers but in in in recent weeks I've come to understand that perhaps the greatest of our Bible teachers missed a very important point and I want to bring what I believe tonight is one of the greatest understandings of how close we are to the coming of our Messiah and it's going to be found in the Book of Malachi 4 verse5 I hope you'll turn there in your Bibles this is not a sermon this is a Bible study where on Sabbath night all of the family gets together the family (1:33:22) of Israel and we study the word of Yahweh together let's read Malachi 4 verse 5 uh and verse number six praise the Lord now before we read that remember I'm reading from a different version than some of you may have behold I will send Elijah the law and the prophets which is the strength of Yahweh the name Elijah remember this the meaning of a name is more important than the name now why do I say that because we got people fighting over how to say the sacred name it's embarrassing to watch get the intent of the name right (1:34:14) and then you've got the name right remember God desires for you to desire to know his name more than he does that you can correctly pronounce his name keep that right there because this junk is getting out of control but the word Elijah the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh now what do you think of when you think of the strength of Yahweh do you think of timidity do you think of quietness do you think of um ashamed do I don't I think of an ox I think think of plowing I think of combative I think of strong the name (1:35:00) Elijah means the strength of Yahweh keep that in your mind as we continue to study behold I'm sending the strength of Yahweh before the coming of the great and Dreadful day of Yahweh he said if you want to know if I'm about to return look across the land and see if you see Elijah now sadly many people have looked for a man rather than the meaning of the name Elijah the meaning is the strength of Yahweh he says just before the coming of the Lord you're going to see Rise up in the Earth a strength that you've not seen before (1:35:58) there will be a voice that will rise up that's afraid of nobody that has the strength of a mule and the T the tenacity of an ox there's going to be a strong anointing that rests upon the men and the women of Yahweh just before the coming of our God verse six and what will it do it will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers and before I come and strike the Earth with a curse utter destruction will come in the day of Yahweh now the reason people do not care about the day (1:36:53) of Yahweh they have been lied to So Long by dispensational preachers that have convinced us all in times past that we would not be here during the day of Yahweh but that we unlike our predecessors would be vacuumed out of here into some hole in the sky and we would escape the terror that was coming upon the earth that is a Lie from the pit of Hell and you can tell somebody I said so because the word says so Yahweh says before my day and he's going to have a day when he strikes the Earth with a curse before that day comes (1:37:43) something must happen everybody's caught up in these blood moons and I have no problem with that everybody's looking to the sky and I have no problem with that but I dare say that very few are looking for the true sign of the coming of the son of man now the strange thing about this verse in Malachi is Elijah already came thousands of years before Elijah wrote this verse how can these things be because Elijah is not a man Elijah is is the strength of Yahweh Elijah is the voice of one crying in the wilderness (1:38:34) prepare ye the way of the Lord don't get your thinking messed up when you hear the word Elijah I want you to change your thinking and hear these words the strength of the almighty God go with me to Matthew chapter 17 we have hundreds watching us right now and I thank you from the bottom of my this lesson is not for the faint of heart if you love church but you don't love prophets if you love church but you don't love truth you may not like what's coming your way but truth will set you free Matthew chapter 17 if you're (1:39:17) watching join us for the Feast of Tabernacles in South Carolina we're going to be there with the first first harvest Association of ministers and if you want to be around Holy Ghost fied commandment keeping men and women you need to go ahead and book your room as quickly as possible go to our website first harvest church. (1:39:40) org to register Matthew 17 and verse 10 let's read it then the disciples ask him saying why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first see they could not accept that yua was here because the prophets had all said that before yua came Elijah would come but yet they had been walking around Israel and nobody had seen Elijah but yet here's the Messiah it seems to be out of sequence and out of order but listen how Yeshua answered them in verse 11 Yeshua said unto to them Elijah truly will come and restore all things now notice he said (1:40:37) will come yua said in this verse that there was going to be another coming of Elijah he says Elijah will come and he will restore all things now there's two traits of Elijah I want you to take note the first trait of Elijah is the strength of Yahweh the next trait of Elijah is he is all about restoration of things that have fallen down he's coming to restore he's not coming to start a new religion he's coming to repair an old religion Hallelujah listen verse 12 but then yua messes them up again and he says but I (1:41:31) say unto you Elijah the strength of Yahweh has come already now notice the two phases of Elijah that yua recognizes but your church does not Yeshua says Elijah will come and he has come future and present that which is and was and is to come that notice that because the church has forgotten that he said Elijah will come and he said he came already but you did not recognize him but you did whatever you pleased you heard his message but you didn't recognize that that man was more than a man he was a strength of Yahweh a (1:42:35) restorer of truth and you missed it you missed it because you thought he was crazy you missed it because you thought he was a quack you missed it because you failed to recognize what he was saying was more than a man message he said you did whatever you wanted to do with him in the same way the son of man will be persecuted like Elijah was so what is the third trait of Elijah the first one the strength of Yahweh the second one a restora the third one persecuted by whom who was Yeshua talking to the leaders of the the church (1:43:24) the leaders of religion the leaders of men that were walking in yesterday's truth they saw Elijah come but they didn't know who he was talking about until finally it dawned on them that he was speaking about John the Baptist or yakan the immerser they knew immediately because they knew that he came in the spirit and the mind and the mantle of Elijah now let's go to Isaiah 40 quickly turn in your Bibles my time will run out very soon Isaiah 40 1-5 now let's read this Comfort my people says the father speak comfortably (1:44:12) to Jerusalem and announce to her that her sentence has expired that her iniquity is pardoned that she has received from yahweh's hand double for all of her sins the voice when will Jerusalem find Comfort he said speak to Israel and comfort her and tell her about the ministry of a man that is coming and he tells her in verse three the voice of him who cries in the wilderness prepare ye the way of of Yahweh Hallelujah make straight in the desert a highway for your father every Valley will be exalted and every Mountain will be made low crooked places (1:45:10) will be made straight and rough places will be made plain for the Salvation of Yahweh is revealed notice this he told Israel Isaiah prophesied to Israel he said listen Israel Rejoice I'm going to tell you when your sins will be blotted out when you hear a Voice Hallelujah when you hear a voice and it's not it's a voice unlike the priest and the leaders of the church it's a voice that's coming from a Barren place it's a voice of a man that has no pedigree he has no backing he has no prestige egyp he has nobody that believes in him but (1:45:57) he's got a voice it's a strong voice it's a voice that makes enemies mad and Friends get confused he's going to come and make straight the Crooked places in Israel he's going to rearrange the house of Israel and he is coming as a voice so trait number four Elijah is a voice remember that Elijah is a strong voice there are certain ministers that carry an authority in their voice it's the glory of their anointing it's in their voices it shakes rooms when they walk in why because there is an anointing on their voice to (1:46:50) cause Israel to hear the word of the Lord amen and notice what he says after this voice comes and after he makes the Crooked way straight and after he cleans up the church then notice what he said in verse five then the salvation of Yahweh will be revealed brothers and sisters what does the name salvation of Yahweh equate to in Hebrew yua Yahweh is salvation he said after you hear this voice you will see yua coming on that great day I want to say this to every one of you watching me and I want to make it plain that while we are waiting for the (1:47:42) ministry the return Ministry of the Messiah The Returned Ministry of Christ Yeshua cannot and will not happen without the return Ministry of Elijah without the return of a voice of one notice Elijah was the voice of one he wasn't part of the many he was a lonely voice oh let me tell you something and I want you to hear me right now he was kicked out of every Church in Israel Jezebel kicked him out because his voice was so compelling it demanded people to hear what he had to say I have a lot of friends that tell me (1:48:33) probably I've see three or four of you watching now they tell me they say Shane I love you but every Christmas I un I unfriend you for about a month so you'll quit driving us crazy about those hellish Christmas trees Hallelujah well let me explain something one day you'll not be able to say that you did not hear a voice it wasn't a voice that has a lot of backing it was a voice of a flawed man and those of you that are watching me that have the spirit of Elijah on your life most of you are flawed most of you you have history you have a past You (1:49:11) Came From A wilderness which is a broken place you have nothing to offer in the way of the church but in the way of God you have plenty please tell this on the mountain mountain tops tell it everywhere you can without the restoration of the Elijah Ministry the Messiah will not return it would be out of order how many knows that Yahweh is a god of order everything with him is sequential it is rhythmic it is so perfect and it never fails if Elijah has to come first then why are you looking for the Messiah while ignoring the voice of one crying (1:49:57) in the wilderness there are some of you watching me right now you're crying out I see your videos I see you brother mclin I see you sister Cheryl I see you brother Ricky I see you brother tim5 I see I I can't name names but I see all of you lifting those voices declaring this end time message now the reason that people don't understand Malachi chapter 4 5 chapter 4 is because they don't understand what the day of the Lord is you know the Bible speaks more about the day of the Lord than it does about the Son of God absolutely if you (1:50:36) go read the law and the prophets it mentions the day of the Lord more than the coming of Messiah as a child and what's so sad is the church is clueless about the day of the Lord let me prove it to you shall I right now when the Sunset a few moments ago the day of the Lord began what day is he Lord of he's Lord of one day hassatan Satan flesh is Lord of six days but there's one day out of the week that Yeshua has claimed as his own do you know why cuz it only takes him one day to mess up six to to clean up six days of mess ups he's just (1:51:23) amazing like that he's lord of the seventh day that's why every Seventh Day He commands us to come into celebration to be reminded of the fact that the day of the Lord is coming the 7,000th year is coming and we celebrate it every seventh day so when we talk about the voice of Elijah how it must come before the day of the Lord brothers and sisters do you know what time it is do you understand understand that the tick tock on the big clock is at the moment approaching the seventh day do you know what time it no you don't or (1:52:02) you'd be living right you'd be keeping Sabbath you'd be at all the commanded assemblies you'd be walking in Holiness you'd be walking in sanctification preparing for the seventh day so the reason people don't know about Elijah they don't know about the day of the Lord brothers and sisters you're in the day of the Lord right now it started at Sunset it is a shadow of things to come oh yeah the great seventh day is coming that's why we started off with a chofar because that day the Trump of God will begin that day and it will begin with (1:52:39) gross Darkness that's why we begin the Sabbath in the period of Darkness we start at Sunset because it reminds us that the darkness is coming upon the face of the Earth but there will be light Hal hosiah in the evening time there will W there will be light in the evening there will be a voice just before the darkness begins and that voice is in the land today can you hear it are you part of it or do you fail to recognize what's happening all around you while you're having Church While You're Building a Congregation of do (1:53:24) nothings While You're Building people that just want to be saved and don't have any idea why they're saved because the kingdom of God is coming to our planet and there is a voice declaring that voice is making straight the Crooked places it's trying to turn first day into seventh day it's trying to get everything I'm meddling now I'll stop now let's continue on because I want to get to some very valid points the reason that he's lord of the Sabbath let's go to Acts chapter 3 and 21 Acts chapter 3 and verse 21 I'll take (1:54:03) questions at the end of this lesson if you're making comments I can't see them right now because they distract me in a good way but I will go back when we're done and we will open the the floor for anyone that wants to comment let's read Acts 3 and 21 shall we now this is talking about josua whom the Heaven Must hold back until the time of the restoration of all things about which Yahweh spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began now hold on when will the heavens read that verse again that verse says that right now the (1:54:50) heavens are literally whole holding back the Messiah he cannot return When people tell you the Lord could come at any moment that is the biggest bunch he comes on time and if you don't understand holy days and anointed and appointed times then you don't understand when he's coming we know when he's coming he came right on time at Tabernacles for his birth he came right on time at Pentecost for the infilling of his church he's going to come right on time Hallelujah for his people now notice what this says but the heavens are (1:55:28) holding him back until when at the restoration at the restoration of all things and who did Yahweh say in the Book of Malachi would restore when Hallelujah the Bible said Elijah was coming to do what restore all things the Bible said that heaven was holding yua back until when Elijah comes somebody listen to me now how long is Yeshua being held back I want you to hear me please I beg you to listen what I got to say have you ever been to a wedding have you ever been to a wedding you can have guests at the wedding you can have the building (1:56:23) you can have the decorations you can have the bridesma and you can have the best men and you can have the preacher and you can have the groom the groom but there's one thing you cannot have a wedding without you got to have a bride you cannot have a wedding without a bride yua would have already returned if his bride had been perfected by the voice of Elijah the the Bible said he's being held back until the restoration who's going to do the restoring Elijah The Voice the lonely voice that cries in the wilderness what Wilderness what did (1:57:07) the Bible say there would be a famine of in the last day the word of God the church is the Wilderness good God I'm so Pentecostal I'm about to lose it up here the church is the Wilderness of dry bones the V the the church is the Wilderness that the the spirit of Roman Catholicism the spirit of Babylon has infiltrated put the church to sleep made her so greasy with grace that sin slips right through it that Wilderness that Wilderness of sin in that Wilderness a voice is going to cry out prepare the way of Yahweh and it's that Ministry (1:57:52) it's that voice that's going to unleash the Messiah so that he can come back for a perfected bride a commandment keeping Holy Ghost filled spirit and Truth bride Hallelujah when is Elijah promised to come Yeshua said in verse 10 behold Elijah will come and restore all things before the Sabbath AB day the millennial Reign is the is the Sabbath day and just before that day that's why if you're not a Sabbath keeper I want to say this and I say it with the deepest love and respect that I can until I understood the Sabbath day I understood (1:58:45) nothing I mean that I was Holy Ghost filled fire baptized running the aisles and swinging from chandeliers but until I understood the Sabbath day and the Mysteries contained within it and the holy until I got it I didn't know anything and if you're watching me and if you don't keep the holy days you don't even know what time it is children listen the day of Yahweh could have began 2,000 years ago oh yeah two days ago two days ago it could have been began why did the day of the Lord not began 2,000 years ago because they failed to (1:59:32) recognize Elijah and Yeshua they didn't recognize him no sir they ignored him they ignored his voice now watch this I want to read to you exactly when our Lord is coming Hosea 6 and verse 2 would you go there in your your Bible I want to slow down for those of you that want to find these scriptures again at the end of this lesson I'll take questions and I will answer them I will stay with you tonight on this family gathering as we study the word of yah together read Hebrews 6 and two and after two days he will revive us and in the third (2:00:17) day he will raise us up and we will live in his sight that's talking about the resurrection after 2 days what did that mean when Israel rejected Messiah 2 days ago 2,000 years ago here is a Bible prophecy that says after 2,000 years or two days he is going to restore us he's going to restore us what is the Bible say yua is waiting for in the heavens the restoring of all things and who's going to do the restor ing Elijah and who is Elijah the strength of Yahweh the voice of strong strength that's doing what preparing the way of the Lord (2:01:08) hallelujah we're getting so many comments I'm so sorry so I love man I love I love you folks you are the cream of the crop you are the best of the bunch you are faithful commandment Keepers to our God and I'm so thankful for every single one of you that are watching with us tonight now I want to take you if you don't mind and I want to go a little bit further with this what is the spirit of Elijah have you heard that y John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah one of the greatest understandings that I've ever received (2:01:44) in my calling is when I came to understand what the word Spirit really means the word spirit is a little mystical it's a little foggy but the truth is the spirit of a man is the mind of a man not the brain but that Supernatural part that reasons that makes you separate from an animal so the spirit of Elijah is the mind of Elijah and what does a mind do it thinks there is a generation Rising that's going to think like Elijah oh yeah they're going to have the spirit or the mindset or the thinking or the anointing of Elijah and what did Elijah (2:02:33) do Elijah changed people Elijah changed Nations Elijah changed people he started schools for the prophets Elijah was an element of change he changed everywhere he went he prepared the way he was a Pioneer a forerunner and that spirit's in the Earth today many are missing it but listen to me there is a voice in the wilderness today saying prepare the way of the Lord now what does that mean he prepared the way the Hebrew word for prepared is pan pan means to make a turn or to restore or to turn back Hallelujah woo (2:03:20) glory be to the Almighty God Elijah is going to have a turn Ministry the spirit of Elijah will make you turn so far around even those people in your church will think you've lost your mind they'll mock you they'll criticize you but listen he's coming to prepare the way to turn now what is the word way mean in Hebrew it's the word direct where we get the word Direction Elijah will come and completely change your direction yeah see when you hear the voice of Elijah you'll be living in Babylon you'll love your religion you'll love your roots (2:04:06) you'll love your church but when Elijah comes you'll fall in love with truth he'll turn you from your Traditions to the word instead of you proud to be Baptist or proud to be Pentecostal or proud to be Church of God you'll be a word bride you'll be a bride of the word you will F that's what the ministry of Elijah does they pull you out of Babylon and put you on the straight and narrow a path that starts at Passover and goes all the way to Tabernacle now how does God change his people when Yahweh gets ready to (2:04:48) change his church how does he do it he doesn't do it with a weekl long Rev IAL he does not do it with the ministry of an evangelist or a pastor no he sends Elijah he has always prepared his people for his coming with the voice of Elijah or the thinking of Elijah turning us back to the Commandments of God that's called preparing the way Yahweh has already he loves the spirit of Elijah so much he's used it three times already and he's he's using it now for the fourth time when was the first time oh when Elijah himself entered into Israel (2:05:32) the church and you know even though there were 7,000 prophets of Baal I mean there were 7,000 I'm sorry Israelites that loved Yahweh only Elijah confronted the leadership only Elijah confronted Jezebel and Ahab do you know who Ahab was he was the pastor of Israel he was the king he was the pastor of the church he was the leader you know who Jezebel was she was a woman preacher now I don't mean that in a bad way cuz that's not what I'm saying here but she was the daughter of the priest of uh her her father was uh uh well Jezebel was the (2:06:11) daughter of King ethal ethal was the high priest of aarte or Ishtar or the Queen of Heaven which is where we get Easter from so Jezebel brought Easter into Israel she brought istar Worship in now see God's fine with paganism God has no problem with it he's going to deal with it one day until it comes into his church Israel the moment it comes in he'll send an Elijah to get it out what's the first thing Elijah did when he came into the church baby you want to know the first thing he did he started tearing down Pagan altars pagan holidays (2:06:50) Pagan celebrations pag pan Sunday Pagan everything that was contrary to the ways of Israel he came and tore down their churches my God he did what do you think the altars were that he tore down that was their churches of that day Elijah tore them down then he killed 400 Pagan preachers brother V you need more wisdom you need to be nicer to people I've tried you need need to speak your words with gentleness we've tried it look where the church is you need to be more kind we've tried it Elijah said enough already give me a sledgehammer these (2:07:34) Pagan altars are coming down and then he turned to Ahab and prophesied to Ahab he confronted leadership he did what Yahweh called him to do and no he didn't like it but you know what else I know about a Elijah he was such a brok en man he was so human and yet God was with him he was so human he let a woman scare him he ran for 16 miles the next day because Jezebel threatened his life I want to tell you don't you ever fail to hear the voice of Elijah through men that you think are broken Elijah failed in many ways but his voice (2:08:16) was anointed now listen the spirit of Jezebel if you've been called to this Elijah Ministry there will always be a jezebel in your life to destroy your influence what was the next time that the spirit of Elijah came don't you remember Elisha what did he ask Elijah for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and Elisha spent the rest of his ministry destroying things that were contrary to the word of God and then the third time time that that Spirit came the third time that it came was in John the Baptist when he said make straight (2:08:59) repent and make straight I want to read to you out of the book of First Kings 18 and verse 21 I want to show you what the voice of Elijah does stay with me please don't leave yet I promise you we're almost through and I'll answer questions first Kings 18 and 21 listen to what the message of Elijah Was Elijah just said to the church when will you stop going back and forth between two doctrines if Yahweh is the mighty one then follow him but if the church then follow the church that's the voice of Elijah have you heard that voice lately have you (2:09:46) heard his voice lately on YouTube on Facebook have you seen him among all of I hear him I hear him every day as a blade I hear the voice of Elijah saying how long will you love the false teachings of the church and love Yahweh how long that's what the voice of Elijah sounds like he'll make you choose one or the other and you will block him on Facebook you'll you you'll cut him off on YouTube you'll do everything to get his voice out of your mind but there's one thing you can never do to Elijah you can never unhear what he had to say (2:10:24) hallelujah now let's come down to my closing I want you to notice before we go let's go to Luke 1 13-1 17 now remember the angel what did Mike what did Malachi say Elijah would do let's talk about this he would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers before the day of the Lord that's the day we're living in but what does that mean let's find out let's go to Luke 1 verse 13 and I'm going to answer that question for you before we answer other questions Luke 11317 if you're watching us and you (2:11:03) would like to be part of an association of ministers that are uniting in spite of difference we've just formed a wonderful Fellowship we would love for you to join with us it's called the first harvest Association of ministers we call it Fam Family why don't you get to know us go to First Harvest Church . (2:11:26) org Luke 1 verse 13 here the angel of the Lord spoke to Mary and I'm sorry Elizabeth about John the Baptist and here's what Elizabeth said or the angel said verse number 13 but the angel said to him do not be afraid Zachariah for your prayers has been heard your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son you will call his name name yakan which is John you will have joy and gladness and many Will Rejoice at his birth and he will be great in the sight of Yahweh and will drink neither strong drink for he will be filled with the holy ghost from his mother's womb the work I'm doing in (2:12:13) her belly is the Holy Ghost doing it and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the fathers I mean he will turn I'm sorry he will turn the fathers to the children now notice where the angel stops notice that Malachi tells us that John that Elijah would do two things but the angel only mentioned one that this that this Elijah would do that he would just turn the fathers to the children but Malachi said there would be two things so so what's going on here I'll tell you what's going on here the first Eli this Elijah and (2:12:57) John he wasn't coming to turn the children to the father he was coming to turn the fathers to the children what does that mean he was going to point those that were Bound in Judaism the fathers of Israel Abraham Isaac and Jacob he was going to cause them to look Beyond Judaism and see yua and in yua the Lost tribes would come the children of Israel would turn back would turn he would cause the fathers through yua to reach out to the Lost tribes but then when the final voice of Elijah comes he will do just the opposite he will cause (2:13:39) the Lost tribes to turn their hearts back to Israel that's what's happening in our day the voice of Elijah is calling you out do you know how many Christians I talk to every day that do not know that they are an Israelite they laugh at us when they see the toed around our shoulder or hear us play the chaar or see the manora and I don't get upset they don't know who they are they have an identity crisis but the voice of Elijah is going to cause in this generation men and women to turn their hearts from their denomination to (2:14:16) turn their hearts from their Christian tradition and it's going to turn them back to the fathers of Israel that is the day we are living in now in closing my final verse Luke chap 4 go with me to Luke chapter 4 and I'm not going to read this but I want you to read it later Luke 4 and 17 I want you to read this later now verse 17 and yua takes up the book and he begins to read and I want you to notice at verse verse 21 and verse 20 he closed the book verse 19 he came to preach the acceptable year of Yahweh but if you go compare that to (2:15:02) Isaiah 61 2-9 there's more to his ministry and it's to preach the Vengeance of our God he's not done that yet Elijah has not turned the hearts of the children to the father and yua has not come and preached the day of Vengeance of our God like Isaiah go compare Isaiah 61 2-9 to Luke 4:1 17-21 and see if there's not something missing brothers and sisters I declare to you tonight as I begin to open this up for any questions you might have I declare to you now that the voice of Elijah is in our Earth today the ministry of Elijah is here restoration (2:15:50) Linda Crawford is here brother Ricky Ezra it's here we're living in the moments darling sister Von that truth and spirit the two witnesses are here I wish I had time to bring this message on I tell you what I'll do tomorrow if I if I'm able I'll teach on the two witnesses I'll bring us from the spirit of Elijah and I'll bring it to the two witnesses and I'll show you I'll prove to you that the two witnesses are on the Earth right now we're going to go to the Book of Malachi chap 4 verse 5 through verse six now I want to tell you a little bit (2:16:40) about me those of you that don't know us um and those of you that think you do but you really don't I am fourth generation Pentecostal now let me explain what that means my grandmother my great grandmother my mother all holy ghost filled fire baptized from the roots of ausa street that is where I come from and I cling to my roots as long as those roots cling to the word of Yahweh but several years ago about 5 years ago we begin to understand that not only only did we need to cling to the Pentecostal roots of our faith (2:17:26) but even past those roots were some deeper roots and it's the Hebrew roots of our faith that so many Christians know so little about and truly it has changed my walk with my heavenly father I didn't even realize I had a heavenly father in those days but one of the benefits of growing up in the Pentecostal church we had a great love for Bible prophecy and we heard some of the greatest Bible prophecy teaching concerning Daniel and the the seven horns and all of those things that taught us about the coming of the Lord (2:18:06) irin Baxter and I could go down the line so many wonderful teachers but in in in recent weeks I've come to understand that perhaps the greatest of our Bible teachers missed a very important point and I want to bring what I believe tonight is one of the greatest understandings of how close we are to the coming of our Messiah and it's going to be found in the book of malakiah 4 verse 5 I hope you'll turn there in your Bibles this is not a sermon this is a Bible study where on Sabbath night all of the family gets to (2:18:51) together the family of Israel and we study the word of Yahweh together let's read Malachi 4 verse 5 uh and verse number six praise the Lord now before we read that remember I'm reading from a different version than some of you may have behold I will send Elijah the law and the prophets which is the strength of Yahweh the name Elijah remember this the meaning of a name is more important than the name now why do I say that because we got people fighting over how to say the sacred name it's embarrassing to watch get the intent of the name right (2:19:44) and then you've got the name right remember God desires for you to desire to know his name more than he does that you can correctly pronounce his name keep that right there because this junk is getting out of control but the word Elijah the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh now what do you think of when you think of the strength of Yahweh do you think of timidity do you think of quietness do you think of um ashamed do I don't I think of an ox I think of plowing I think of combative I think of strong the name Elijah means (2:20:31) the strength of Yahweh keep that in your mind as we continue to study behold I'm sending the strength of Yahweh before the coming of the great and Dreadful day of Yahweh he said if you want to know if I'm about to return look across the land and see if you see Elijah now sadly many people have looked for a man rather than the meaning of the name Elijah the meaning is the strength of Yahweh he says just before the coming of the Lord You're going to see Rise up in the earth a strength that you've not seen before (2:21:28) there will be a voice that will rise up that's afraid of nobody that has the strength of a mule and the T the tenacity of an ox there's going to be a strong anointing that rests upon the men and the women of Yahweh just before the coming of Our God verse six and what will it do it will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers and before I come and strike the Earth with a curse utter destruction will come in the day of Yahweh now the reason people do not care about the day of (2:22:23) Yahweh they have been lied to So Long by dispensational preachers that have convinced us all in times past that we would not be here during the day of Yahweh but that we unlike our predecessors would be vacuumed out of here into some hole in the sky and we would escape the terror that was coming upon the earth that is aive from the pit of Hell and you can tell somebody I said so because the word says so Yahweh says before my day and he's going to have a day when he strikes the Earth with a curse before that day comes (2:23:12) something must happen everybody's caught up in these blood moons and I have no problem with that everybody's looking to the sky and I have no problem with that but I dare say that very few are looking for the true sign of the coming of the son of man now the strange thing about this verse in Malachi is Elijah already came thousands of years before Elijah wrote this verse how can these things be because Elijah is not a man man Elijah is the strength of Yahweh Elijah is the voice of one crying in the wilderness (2:24:03) prepare ye the way of the Lord don't get your thinking messed up when you hear the word Elijah I want you to change your thinking and hear these words the strength of the almighty God go with me to Matthew chap 17 we have hundreds watching us right now and I thank you from the bottom of my heart this lesson is not for the faint of heart if you love church but you don't love prophets if you love church but you don't love truth you may not like what's coming your way but truth will set you free Matthew chapter (2:24:45) 17 if you're watching join us for the Feast of Tabernacles in South Carolina we're going to be there with the first harvest Association of ministers and if you want to be around Holy Ghost Field commandment keeping men and women you need to go ahead and book your room as quickly as possible go to our website first harvest church. (2:25:10) org to register Matthew 17 and verse 10 let's read it then the disciples ask him saying why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first see they could not accept that yua was here because the prophets had all said that before yua came Elijah would come but yet they had been walking around Israel and nobody had seen Elijah but yet here's the Messiah it seems to be out of sequence and out of order but listen how yua answered them in verse 11 Yeshua said unto them Elijah truly will come and restore all things now notice he said (2:26:07) will come yua said in this verse that there was going to be another coming of Elijah he says Elijah will come and he will restore all things now there's two traits of Elijah I want you to take note the first trait of Elijah is the strength of Yahweh the next trait of Elijah is he is all about restoration of things that have fallen down he's coming to restore he's not coming to start a new religion he's coming to repair an old religion Hallelujah listen verse 12 but then yua messes them up again and he says but I (2:27:00) say unto you Elijah the strength of Yahweh has come already now notice the two phases of Elijah that yua recognizes but your church does not Yeshua says Elijah will come and he has come future and present that which is and was and is to come that notice that because the church has forgotten that he said Elijah will come and he said he came already but you did not recognize him but you did whatever you pleased you heard his message but you didn't recognize that that man was more than a man he was a strength of Yahweh a (2:28:04) restorer of truth and you missed it you missed it because you thought he was crazy you missed it because you thought he was a quack you missed it because you failed to recognize what he was saying was more than a man's message he said you did whatever you wanted to do with him in the same way the son of man will be persecuted like Elijah was so what is the third trait of Elijah the first one the strength of Yahweh the second one a restora the third one persecuted by whom who was yua talking to the leaders of the church the leaders (2:28:55) of religion the leaders of men that were walking in yesterday's truth they saw Elijah come but they didn't know who he was talking about until finally it dawned on them that he was speaking about John the Baptist or yakan the immerser they knew immediately because they knew that he came in the spirit and the mind and the mantle of Elijah now let's go to Isaiah 40 quickly turn in your bies my time will run out very soon Isaiah 40 1-5 now let's read this Comfort my people says the father speak comfortably to Jerusalem and announce to her that (2:29:45) her sentence has expired that her iniquity is pardoned that she is receive from yahweh's hand double for all of her sins the voice when will Jerusalem find Comfort he said speak to Israel and comfort her and tell her about the ministry of a man that is coming and he tells her in verse three the voice of him who cries in the wilderness prepare ye the way of Yahweh Hallelujah make straight in the desert a highway for your father every Valley will be exalted and every Mountain will be made low crooked places will be made straight and rough places (2:30:42) will be made plain for the Salvation of Yahweh is revealed notice this he told is is Isaiah prophesied to Israel he said listen Israel Rejoice I'm going to tell you when your sins will be blotted out when you hear a Voice Hallelujah when you hear a voice and it's not it's a voice unlike the priest and the leaders of the church it's a voice that's coming from a Barren place it's a voice of a man that has no pedigree he has no B Laing he has no Prestige he has nobody that believes in him but he's got a voice it's a strong voice it's a voice (2:31:31) that makes enemies mad and Friends get confused he's going to come and make straight the Crooked places in Israel he's going to rearrange the house of Israel and he is coming as a voice so trait number four Elijah is a voice remember that Elijah is a strong voice there are certain ministers that carry an authority in their voice it's the glory of their anointing it's in their voices it shakes rooms when they walk in why because there is an anointing on their voice to call Israel to hear the word of the Lord amen (2:32:25) and notice what he says after this voice comes and after he makes the Crooked way straight and after he cleans up the church then notice what he said in verse 5 then the salvation of Yahweh will be revealed brothers and sisters what does the name salvation of Yahweh equate to in Hebrew yua Yahweh is salvation he said after you hear this voice you will see yua coming on that great day I want to say this to every one of you watching me and I want to make it plain that while we are waiting for the ministry the return Ministry of the (2:33:15) Messiah The Returned Ministry of Christ yua cannot and will not happen without the return Ministry of Elijah without the return of a voice of one notice Elijah was the voice of one he wasn't part of the many he was a lonely voice oh let me tell you something and I want you to hear me right now he was kicked out of every Church in Israel Jezebel kicked him out because his voice was so compelling it demanded people to hear what he had to say I have a lot of friends that tell me probably I've see three or four of you (2:34:04) watching now they tell me they say Shane I love you but every Christmas I un I unfriend you for about a month so you'll quit driving us crazy about those hellish Christmas trees Hallelujah well let me explain something one day today you'll not be able to say that you did not hear a voice it wasn't a voice that has a lot of backing it was a voice of a flawed man and those of you that are watching me that have the spirit of Elijah on your life most of you are flawed most of you you have history you have a past You Came From A wilderness (2:34:41) which is a broken place you have nothing to offer in the way of the church but in the way of God you have plenty please tell this on the mountaintops tell it everywhere you can without the restoration of the Elijah Ministry the Messiah will not return it would be out of order how many knows that Yahweh is a god of order everything with him is sequential it is rhythmic it is so perfect and it never fails if Elijah has to come first then why are you looking for the Messiah while ignoring the voice of one crying in the wilderness there (2:35:28) are some of you watching me right now you're crying out I see your videos I see you brother mcar and I see you sister Cheryl I see you brother Ricky I see you brother Tim I see I I can't name names but I see all of you lifting those voices declaring this end time message now the reason that people don't understand Malachi chapter 5 chapter 4 is because they don't understand what the day of the Lord is you know the Bible speaks more about the day of the Lord than it does about the Son of God absolutely if you'll go read the law and (2:36:07) the prophets it mentions the day of the Lord more than the coming of Messiah as a child and what so sad is the church is clueless about the day of the Lord let me prove it to you sh Ally right now when the sun set a few moments ago the day of the Lord began what day is he Lord of he's Lord of one day hassatan Satan flesh is Lord of six days but there's one day out of the week that yua has claimed as his own do you know why cuz it only takes him one day to mess up six to to clean up six days of mess ups he's just amazing (2:36:53) like that he's lord of the seventh day that's why every Seventh Day He commands us to come into celebration to be reminded of the fact that the day of the Lord is coming the 7,000th year is coming and we celebrate it every seventh day so when we talk about the voice of Elijah how it must come before the day of the Lord brothers and sisters do you you know what time it is do you understand that the tick tock on the big clock is at the moment approaching the seventh day do you know what time it is no you don't or (2:37:32) you'd be living right you'd be keeping Sabbath you'd be at all the commanded assemblies you'd be walking in Holiness you'd be walking in sanctification preparing for the seventh day so the reason people don't know about Elijah they don't know about the day of the Lord brothers and sisters you're in the day of the Lord right now it started at Sunset it is a shadow of things to come oh yeah the great seventh day is coming that's why we started off with the chofar because that day the Trump of God will begin that day and it will begin (2:38:08) with gross Darkness that's why we begin the Sabbath in the period of Darkness we start at Sunset because it reminds us that the darkness is coming upon the face of the Earth but there will be light Hal hosiah in the evening time there will W there will be light in the evening there will be a voice just before the darkness begins and that voice is in the land today can you hear it are you part of it or do you fail to recognize what's happening all around you while you're having Church while you're building a Congregation of do (2:38:53) nothings While You're Building people that just want to be saved and don't have any idea why they're saved because the kingdom of God is coming to our planet and there is a voice declaring it that voice is making straight the Crooked places it's trying to turn first day into seventh day it's trying to get everything I'm meddling now I'll stop now let's continue on because I want to get to some very valid points the reason that he's lord of the Sabbath let's go to acts chap 3 and 21 Acts 3 and verse 21 I'll take (2:39:32) questions at the end of this lesson if you're making comments I can't see them right now because they distract me in a good way but I will go back when we're done and we will open the the floor for anyone that wants to comment let's read Acts 3 and 21 shall we now this is talking about yua whom the Heaven Must hold back until the time of the restoration of all things about which yahe spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began now hold on when will the heavens read that verse again that verse says that right now the (2:40:20) heavens are literally holding back the Messiah he cannot return When people tell you the Lord could come at any moment that is the biggest bunch he comes on time and if you don't understand holy days and anointed and appointed times then you don't understand when he's coming we know when he's coming he came right on time at Tabernacles for his birth he came right on time at Pentecost for the infilling of his church chur he's going to come right on time Hallelujah for his people now notice what this says but the (2:40:57) heavens are holding him back until when at the restoration at the restoration of all things and who did Yahweh say in the Book of Malachi would restore when woooo Hallelujah the Bible said he like was coming to do what restore all things the Bible said that heaven was holding yua back until when Elijah comes somebody listen to me now how long is yua being held back I want you to hear me please I beg you to listen what I got to say have you ever been to a wedding have you ever been to a wedding you can have guests at (2:41:49) the wedding you can have the building you can have the decorations you can have the brides made and you can have the best men and you can have the preacher and you can have the groom the groom but there's one thing you cannot have a wedding without you got to have a bride you cannot have a wedding without a bride yua would have already returned if his bride had been perfected by the voice of Elijah the Bible said he's being held back until the restoration who's going to do the restoring Elijah The Voice the lonely (2:42:32) voice that cries in the wilderness what Wilderness what did the Bible say there would be a famine of in the last day the word of God the church is the Wilderness good God I'm so Pentecostal I'm about to lose it up here the church is the wilderness of dry bones the the the church is the Wilderness that the the spirit of Roman Catholicism the spirit of Babylon has infiltrated put the church to sleep made her so greasy with grace that sin slips right through it that Wilderness that Wilderness of sin in that Wilderness a (2:43:13) voice is going to cry out prepare the way of Yahweh and it's that Ministry it's that voice that's going to unleash the Messiah so that he can come back for a perfected bride a commandment keeping Holy Ghost filled spirit and Truth bride Hallelujah when is Elijah promised to come Yeshua said in verse 10 behold Elijah will come and restore all things before the Sabbath day the millennial Reign is the is the Sabbath day and just before that day that's why if you're not a Sabbath keeper I want to say this and I say it (2:44:05) with the deepest love and respect that I can until I understood the Sabbath day I understood nothing I mean that I was Holy Ghost filled fire B TI running the aisles and Swinging From chandeliers but until I understood the Sabbath day and the Mysteries contained within it and the holy until I got it I didn't know anything and if you're watching me if you don't keep the holy days you don't even know what time it is children listen the day of Yahweh could have began 2,000 years ago oh yeah two days ago two days ago it could have (2:44:52) began why did the day of the Lord not begin 2,000 years ago because they failed to recognize Elijah and yua they didn't recognize him no sir they ignored him they ignored his voice now watch this I want to read to you exactly when our Lord is coming Hosea chapter 6 and verse 2 would you go there in your Bible I want to slow down for those of you that want to find these scriptures again at the end of this lesson I'll take questions and I will answer them I will stay with you tonight on this family gathering as we study the (2:45:35) word of y'all together read Hebrews 6 and2 and after two days he will revive us and in the third day he will raise us up and we will live in his sight that's talking about the resurrection after 2 days what did that mean when Israel rejected Messiah two days ago 2,000 years ago here is a Bible prophecy that says after 2,000 years or two days he is going to restore us sh he's going to restore us what is the Bible say yua is waiting for in the heavens the restoring of all things and who's going to do the restoring Elijah and who is Elijah the (2:46:26) strength of Yahweh the voice of strong strength that's doing what preparing the way of the Lord hallelujah we're getting so many comments I'm so sorry so I love man I love I love you folks you are the cream of the crop you are the best of the bunch you are Faith ful commandment Keepers to our God and I'm so thankful for every single one of you that are watching with us tonight now I want to take you if you don't mind and I want to go a little bit further with this what is the spirit of Elijah have you heard (2:47:07) that y John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah one of the greatest understandings that I've ever received in my calling is when I came to understand what the word spirit really means the word spirit is a little mystical it's a little foggy but the truth is the spirit of a man is the mind of a man not the brain but that Supernatural part that reasons that makes you separate from an animal so the spirit of Elijah is the mind of Elija and what does a mind do it thinks there is a generation Rising that's going to think like Elijah oh (2:47:53) yeah they're going to have the spirit or the mindset or the thinking or the anointing of Elijah and what did Elijah do Elijah changed people Elijah changed Nations Elijah changed people he started schools for the prophets Elijah was an element of change he changed everywhere he went he prepared the way he was a Pioneer a forerunner and that spirit's in the Earth today many are missing it but listen to me there is a voice in the wilderness today saying prepare the way of the Lord now what does that mean he prepared the way the Hebrew word for (2:48:38) prepared is pan pan means to make a turn or to restore or to turn back Hallelujah woo glory be to the almighty God Elijah is going to have a turn Ministry the spirit of Elijah will make you turn so far around even those people in your church will think you've lost your mind they'll mock you they'll criticize you but listen he's coming to prepare the way to turn now what does the word way mean in Hebrew it's the word direct where we get the word direction Elijah will come and completely change your direction yeah (2:49:28) see when you hear the voice of Elijah you'll be living in Babylon you'll love your religion you'll love your roots you'll love your church but when Elijah comes you'll fall in love with truth he'll turn you from your Traditions to the word instead of you proud to be Baptist or proud to be Pentecostal or proud to be Church of God you'll be a word bride you'll be a bride of the word you will fall that's what the ministry of Elijah does they pull you out of Babylon and put you on the straight and narrow path that starts at Passover and goes all the (2:50:11) way to Tabernacle now how does God change his people when Yahweh gets ready to change his church how does he do it he doesn't do it with a week-long Revival he does not do it with the ministry of an evangelist or a pastor no he sends Elijah he has always prepared his people for his coming with the voice of Elijah or the thinking of Elijah turning us back to the Commandments of God that's called preparing the way Yahweh has already he loves the spirit of Elijah so much much he's used it three times already and he's he's using (2:50:54) it now for the fourth time when was the first time oh when Elijah himself entered into Israel the church and you know even though there were 7,000 prophets of Baal I mean there were 7,000 I'm sorry Israelites that loved Yahweh only Elijah confronted the leadership only Elijah confronted Jezebel and Ahab do you know who Ahab was he was the pastor of Israel he was the king he was the pastor of the church he was the leader you know who Jezebel was she was a woman preacher now I don't mean that in a bad way because that's not what I'm (2:51:32) saying here but she was a daughter of the priest of uh her her father was uh uh well Jezebel was the daughter of King ethal eball was the high priest of aarte or Ishtar or the queen of Heaven which is where we get Easter from so Jezebel brought Easter into Israel she brought istar worship and now see God's fine with paganism God has no problem with it he's going to deal with it one day until it comes into his church Israel the moment it comes in he'll send an Elijah to get it out what's the first thing Elijah did when he came into the church (2:52:13) baby you want to know the first thing he did he started tearing down Pagan altars pagan holiday Pagan celebrations Pagan Sundays Pagan everything that was contrary to the ways of Israel he came and tore down their churches my God he did what do you think the altars were that he tore down that was their churches of that day Elijah tore them down then he killed 400 Pagan preachers brother V you need more wisdom you need to be nicer to people I've tried you need to speak your words with gentleness we've tried it look (2:52:54) where the church is you need to be more kind we've tried it Elijah said enough already give me a sledgehammer these Pagan altars are coming down and then he turned to Ahab and prophesied to Ahab he confronted leadership he did what Yahweh called him to do and no he didn't like it but you know what else I know about ah Elijah he was such a broken man he was so human and yet God was with him he was so human he let a woman scare him he ran for 16 miles the next day because Jezebel threatened his life I want to (2:53:34) tell you don't you ever fail to hear the voice of Elijah through men that you think are broken Elijah failed in many ways but his voice was anointed now listen the Spirit of Jezebel if you've been called to this Elijah Ministry there will always be a jezebel in your life to destroy your influence what was the next time that the spirit of Elijah came don't you remember Elisha what did he ask Elijah for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and Elisha spent the rest of his ministry destroying things that were (2:54:17) contrary to the word of God and then the third time that that Spirit came the third time that it came was in John the Baptist when he said make straight repent and make straight I want to read to you out of the book of First Kings 18 and verse 21 I want to show you what the voice of Elijah does stay with me please don't leave yet I promise you we're almost through and I'll answer questions first Kings 18-21 listen to what the message of Elijah Was Elijah said to the church when will you stop going back and forth between two (2:55:02) doctrines if Yahweh is the mighty one then follow him but if the church then follow the church that's the voice of Elijah have you heard that voice lately have you heard his voice lately on YouTube on Facebook Facebook have you seen him among all of I hear him I hear him every day as a blade I hear the voice of Elijah saying how long will you love the false teachings of the church and love Yahweh how long that's what the voice of Elijah sounds like he'll make you choose one or the other and you will block him (2:55:39) on Facebook you'll you'll you'll cut him off on you to you'll do everything to get his voice out of your mind but there's one thing you can never do to Elijah you can never unhear what he had to say hallelujah now let's come down to my closing I want you to notice before we go let's go to Luke 1 13-1 17 now remember the angel what did Mike what did Malachi say Elijah would do let's talk about this he would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers before the day of the Lord that's the day we're (2:56:18) living in but what does that mean let's find out let's go to Luke 1 verse 13 and I'm going to answer that question for you before we answer other questions Luke 13:17 if you're watching us and you would like to be part of an association of ministers that are uniting in spite of difference we've just formed a wonderful Fellowship we would love for you to join with us it's called the first harvest Association of ministers we call it Fam Family why don't you you get to know us go to first harvest church.org Luke (2:56:53) 1:13 here the angel of the Lord spoke to Mary and I'm sorry Elizabeth about John the Baptist and here's what Elizabeth said or the angel said verse number 13 but the angel said to him do not be afraid Zachariah for your prayer has been heard your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son you will call his name yakan which is John you will have joy and gladness and many Will Rejoice at his birth and he will be great in the sight of Yahweh and will drink neither strong drink for he will be filled with the holy ghost from (2:57:41) his mother's womb the work I'm doing in her belly is the Holy Ghost doing it and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the fathers I mean he will turn I'm sorry he will turn the fathers to the children now notice where the angel stops notice that Malachi tells us that John that Elijah would do two things but the angel only mentioned one that this that this Elijah would do that he would just turn the fathers to the children but Malachi said there would be two things so so what's going on here I'll tell you what's going (2:58:22) on here the first Eli this Elijah and John he wasn't coming to turn the children to the father he was coming to turn the fathers to the children what does that mean he was going to point those that were Bound in Judaism the fathers of Israel Abraham Isaac and Jacob he was going to cause them to look Beyond Judaism and see yua and in yua the Lost tribe would come the children of Israel would turn back would turn he would cause the fathers through yua to reach out to the Lost tribes but then when the final voice of Elijah comes he will do (2:59:06) just the opposite he will cause the Lost tribes to turn their hearts back to Israel that's what's happening in our day the voice of Elijah is calling you out do you know how many Christians I talk to every day that do not know that they are an Israelite they laugh at us when they see the Tad around our shoulder or hear us play the chofar or see the manora and I don't get upset they don't know who they are they have an identity crisis but the voice of Elijah is going to cause in this generation men and women to turn (2:59:43) their hearts from their denomination to turn their hearts from their Christian tradition and it's going to turn them back to the fathers of Israel that is the day we are living in now in closing my final verse Luke 4 go with me to Luke chapter 4 and I'm not going to read this but I want you to read it later Luke 4 and 17 I want you to read this later now verse 17 and yua takes up the book and he begins to read and I want you to notice at verse 21 and verse 20 he closed the book verse 19 he came to preach the acceptable year (3:00:29) of Yahweh but if you go compare that to Isaiah 61 2-9 there's more to his ministry and it's to preach the Vengeance of our God he's not done that yet Elijah has not turned the hearts of the children to the father and yua has not come and pre the day of Vengeance of our God like Isaiah go compare Isaiah 61 2-9 to Luke 4:1 17-21 and see if there's not something missing brothers and sisters I declare to you tonight as I begin to open this up for any questions you might have I declare to you now that the voice of Elijah is in our Earth (3:01:14) today the ministry of Elijah is here restoration Linda Crawford is here brother Ricky Ezra it's here we're living in the moments darling sister Von that truth and spirit the two witnesses are here I wished I had time to bring this message on I tell you what I'll do tomorrow if I if I'm able I'll teach on the two witnesses I'll bring us from the spirit of Elijah and I'll bring it to the the two witnesses and I'll show you I'll prove to you that the two witnesses are on the Earth right now we're going to go to the Book of (3:02:02) Malachi chapter 4 verse 5 through verse 6 now I want to tell you a little bit about me those of you that don't know us um and those of you that think you do but you really don't I am fourth generation Pentecostal now let me explain what that means my grandmother my great grandmother my mother all holy ghost filled fire baptized from the roots of Aza street that is where I come from and I cling to my roots as long as those roots cling to the word of Yahweh but several years ago about five years ago we begin to (3:02:49) understand that not only did we need to cling to the Pentecostal roots of our faith but even past those roots were some deeper roots and it's the Hebrew roots of our faith that so many Christians know so little about and truly it has changed my walk with my heavenly father I didn't even realize I had a heavenly father in those days but one of the benefits of growing up in the Pentecostal church we had a great love for Bible prophecy and we heard some of the greatest Bible prophecy teaching concerning Daniel and the the seven (3:03:31) horns and all of those things that taught us about the coming of the Lord irin Baxter and I could go down the line so many wonderful teachers but in in in recent weeks I've come to understand that perhaps the greatest of our bible teach teachers missed a very important point and I want to bring what I believe tonight is one of the greatest understandings of how close we are to the coming of our Messiah and it's going to be found in the Book of Malachi 4 verse 5 I hope you'll turn there in your Bibles this is not a (3:04:14) sermon this is a Bible study we're on Sabbath night all of the family gets together the family of Israel and we study the word of Yahweh together let's read Malachi 4 verse 5 uh and verse number six praise the Lord now before we read that remember I'm reading from a different version than some of you may have behold I will send Elijah the law and the prophets which is the strength of Yahweh the name Elijah remember this the meaning of a name is more important than the name now why do I say that because we got people (3:05:04) fighting over how to say the sacred name it's embarrassing to watch get the intent of the name right and then you've got the name right remember God Des desires for you to desire to know his name more than he does that you can correctly pronounce his name keep that right there because this junk is getting out of control but the word Elijah the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh now what do you think of when you think of the strength of Yahweh do you think of timidity do you think of quietness do you think of (3:05:47) um a shamed do I don't I think of an ox I think of plowing I think of combative I think of strong the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh keep that in your mind as we continue to study behold I'm sending the strength of Yahweh before the coming of the great and Dreadful day of Yahweh he said if you want to know if I'm about to return look across the land and see if you see Elijah now sadly many people have looked for a man rather than the meaning of the name Elijah the meaning is the strength of Yahweh he says just before the coming (3:06:48) of the Lord you're going to see Rise up in the earth a strength that you've not seen before there will be a voice that will rise up that's afraid of nobody that has the strength of a mule and the T the tenacity of an ox there's going to be a strong anointing that rest upon the men and the women of Yahweh just before for the coming of our God verse six and what will it do it will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers and before I come and strike the Earth (3:07:42) with a curse utter destruction will come in the day of Yahweh now the reason people do not care about the day of Yahweh they have been lied to So Long by dispensational preachers that have convinced us all in times past that we would not be here during the day of Yahweh but that we unlike our predecessors would be vacuumed out of here into some hole in the sky and we would escape the terror that was coming upon the earth that is a Lie from the pit of Hell and you can tell somebody I said so because the word says so Yahweh (3:08:28) says before my day and he's going to have a day when he strikes the Earth with a curse before that day comes something must happen everybody's caught up in these blood moons and I have no problem problem with that everybody's looking to the sky and I have no problem with that but I dare say that very few are looking for the true sign of the coming of the son of man now the strange thing about this verse in Malachi is Elijah already came thousands of years before Elijah wrote this verse how can these things be because Elijah is not a (3:09:20) man Elijah is the strength of Yahweh Elijah is the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord don't get your thinking messed up when you hear the word Elijah I want you to change your thinking and hear these words the strength of the almighty God go with me to Matthew chap 17 we have hundreds watching us right now and I thank you from the bottom of my heart this lesson is not for the faint of heart if you love church but you don't love prophets if you love church but you don't love truth you may (3:10:08) not like what's coming your way but truth will set you free Matthew chapter 17 if you're watching join us for 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(3:10:38) org to register Matthew 17 and verse 10 let's read it then the disciples ask him saying why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first see they could not accept that yua was here because the prophets had all said that before yua came Elijah would come but yet they had been walking around Israel and nobody had seen Elijah but yet here's the Messiah it seems to be out of sequence and out of order but listen how yesu answered them in verse 11 Yeshua said unto them Elijah truly will come and restore all things now notice he said (3:11:36) will come yua said in this verse that there was going to be another coming of Elijah he says Elijah will come and he will restore all things now there's two traits of Elijah I want you to take note the first trait of Elijah is the strength of Yahweh the next trait of Elijah is he is all about restoration of things that have fallen down he's coming to restore he's not coming to start a new religion he coming to repair an old religion Hallelujah listen verse 12 but then yua messes them up again and he says but I say unto you (3:12:32) Elijah the strength of Yahweh has come already now notice the two phases of Elijah that yua recognizes but your church does not Yeshua says Elijah will come and he has come future and present that which is and was and is to come that notice that because the church has forgotten that he said Elijah will come and he said he came already but you did not recognize ize him but you did whatever you pleased you heard his message but you didn't recognize that that man was more than a man he was a strength of Yahweh a (3:13:33) restorer of truth and you missed it you missed it because you thought he was crazy you missed it because you thought he was a quack you missed it because you failed to recognize what he was saying was more than a man's message he said you did whatever you wanted to do with him in the same way the son of man will be persecuted like Elijah was so what is the third trait of Elijah the first one the strength of Yahweh the second one a restorer the third one persecuted by whom who was Yeshua talking to the leaders of (3:14:22) the church the leaders of religion the leaders of men that were walking in yesterday's truth they saw Elijah come but they didn't know who he was talking about until finally it dawned on them that he was speaking about John the badest or yakan the immerser they knew immediately because because they knew that he came in the spirit and the mind and the mantle of Elijah now let's go to Isaiah 40 quickly turn in your Bibles my time will run out very soon Isaiah 40 1-5 now let's read this Comfort my people says the father speak comfortably (3:15:11) to Jerusalem and announce to her that her sentence has expired that her iniquity is pardoned that she has received from yahweh's hand double for all of her sins the voice when will Jerusalem find Comfort he said speak to Israel and comfort her and tell her about the ministry of a man that is coming and he tells her in verse three the voice of him who cries in the Wilder Wilderness prepare ye the way of Yahweh Hallelujah make straight in the desert a highway for your father every Valley will be exalted and every (3:16:06) Mountain will be made low crooked places will be made straight and rough places will be made plain for the Salvation of Yahweh is revealed notice this he told Israel Isaiah prophesied to Israel he said listen Israel Rejoice I'm going to tell you when your sins will be blotted out when you hear a Voice Hallelujah when you hear a voice and it's not it's a voice unlike the priest and the leaders of the church it's a voice that's coming from a Barren place it's a voice of a man that has no pedigree he has no backing he has no Prestige he has (3:16:53) nobody that believes in him but he's got a voice it's a strong voice it's a voice that makes enemies mad and Friends get confused he's going to come and make straight the Crooked places in Israel he's going to rearrange the house of Israel and he is coming as a voice so trait number four Elijah is a voice remember that Elijah is a strong voice there are certain ministers that carry an authority in their voice it's the glory of their anointing it's in their voices it shakes rooms when they walk in why because (3:17:45) there is an anointing on their voice to cause Israel to hear the word of the Lord amen and notice what he says after this voice comes and after he makes the Crooked way straight and after he cleans up the church then notice what he said in verse five then the salvation of Yahweh will be revealed brothers and sisters what does the name salvation of Yahweh equate to in Hebrew yua Yahweh is salvation he said after you hear this voice you will see yua coming on that great day I want to say this to every one of you watching me and (3:18:36) I want to make it plain that while we are waiting for the ministry the return Ministry of the Messiah the return Ministry of Christ yua cannot and will not happen without the return Ministry of Elijah without the return of a voice of one notice Elijah was the voice of one he wasn't part of the many he was a lonely voice oh let me tell you something I want you to hear me right now he was kicked out of every Church in Israel Jezebel kicked him out because his voice was so compelling it demanded people to hear what he had to say I have a lot of (3:19:30) friends that tell me probably I see three or four of you watching now they tell me they say Shane I love you but every Christmas I un I unfriend you for about a month so you'll quit driving us crazy about those hellish Christmas trees Hallelujah well let me explain something one day you'll not be able to say that you did not hear a voice it wasn't a voice that has a lot of backing it was a voice of a flawed man and those of you that are watching me that have the spirit of Elijah on your life most of you are flawed most of you you have (3:20:07) history you have a past You Came From A wilderness which is a broken place you have nothing to offer in the way of the church but in the way of God you have plenty please tell this on the mountaintops tell it everywhere you can without the restoration of the Elijah Ministry the Messiah will not return it would be out of order how many knows that Yahweh is a god of order everything with him is sequential it is rhythmic it is so perfect and it never fails if Elijah has to come first then why are you looking for the Messiah while (3:20:52) ignoring the voice of one crying in the wilderness there's some of you watching me right now you're crying out I see your videos I see you brother mclin I see you sister Cheryl I see you brother Ricky I see you brother Tim I see I I can't name names but I see all of you lifting those voices declaring this end time message now the reason that people don't understand Malachi chapter 5 chapter 4 is because they don't understand what the day of the Lord is you know the Bible speaks more about the day of the Lord than it does about the (3:21:33) Son of God absolutely if you go read the law and the prophets it mentions the day of the Lord more than the coming of Messiah as a child and what's so sad is the church is clueless about the day of the Lord let me prove it to you shall I right now when the sun set a few moments ago the day of the Lord began what day is he Lord of he's Lord of one day hassatan Satan flesh is Lord of six days but there's one day out of the week that yua has claimed as his own do you know why cuz it only takes him one day to mess up six to to clean up six days (3:22:20) of mess ups he's just amazing like that he's lord of the seventh day that's why every Seventh Day He commands us to come into celebration to be reminded of the fact that the day of the Lord is coming the 7,000th year is coming and we celebrate it every seventh day so when we talk about the voice of Elijah how it must come before the day of the Lord hard brothers and sisters do you know what time it is do you understand that the tick tock on the big clock is at the moment approaching the seventh day do you know what time it no you don't or (3:23:01) you'd be living right you'd be keeping Sabbath you'd be at all the commanded assemblies you'd be walking in Holiness you'd be walking in sanctification preparing for the seventh day so the reason people don't know about El they don't know about the day of the Lord brothers and sisters you're in the day of the Lord right now it started at Sunset it is a shadow of things to come oh yeah the great seventh day is coming that's why we started off with a chofar because that day the Trump of God will begin that day and it will begin with (3:23:37) gross Darkness that's why we begin the Sabbath in the period of Darkness we start at Sunset because it reminds us that the darkness is coming upon the face of the Earth but there will be light hosiah in the evening time there will wo there will be light in the evening there will be a voice just before the darkness begins and that voice is in the land today can you hear it are you part of it or do you fail to recognize what's happening all around you while you're having Church while you're building a Congregation of do nothings (3:24:24) While You're Building people that just want to be saved and don't have any idea why they're saved because the kingdom of God is coming to our planet and there is a voice declaring it that voice is making straight the Crooked places it's trying to turn first day and the seventh day it's trying to get everything I'm meddling now I'll stop now let's continue on because I want to get to some very valid points the reason that he's lord of the Sabbath let's go to acts chap 3 and 21 acts chap 3 and verse 21 I'll take (3:25:02) questions at the end of this lesson if you're making comments I can't see them right now because they distract me in a good way but I will go back when we're done and we will open the the floor for anyone that wants to comment let's read Acts 3 and 21 shall we now this is talking about yua whom the Heaven Must hold back until the time of the restoration of all things about which Yahweh spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began now hold on when will the heavens read that verse again that verse says that right now the (3:25:49) heavens are literally holding back the Messiah he cannot return When people tell you the Lord could come at any moment that is the biggest bunch he comes on time and if you don't understand holy days and anointed and appointed times then you don't understand when he's coming we know when he's coming he came right on time at Tabernacles for his birth he came right on time at Pentecost for the infilling of his church he's going to come right on time Hallelujah for his people now notice what this says but the heavens (3:26:27) are holding him back until when at the restoration at the restoration of all things and who did Yahweh say in the Book of Malachi would restore when woo woo h Hallelujah the Bible said Elijah was coming to do what restore all things the Bible said that heaven was holding yua back until when Elijah comes somebody listen to me now how long is yua being held back I want you to hear me please I beg you to listen what I got to say have you ever been to a wedding have you ever been to a wedding you can have guests at the wedding you (3:27:20) can have the building you can have the decorations you can have the bridesmaid and you can have the best men and you can have the preacher and you can have the groom the groom but there's one thing you cannot have a wedding without you got to have a bride you cannot have a wedding without a bride yua would have already returned if his bride had been perfected by the voice of Elijah the Bible said he's being held back until the restoration who's going to do the restoring Elijah The Voice the lonely voice that cries in the wilderness what (3:28:05) Wilderness what did the Bible say there would be a famine of in the last day the word of God the church is the Wilderness good God I'm so Pentecostal I'm about to lose it up here the the church is the Wilderness of dry bones the V the the church is the Wilderness that the the spirit of Roman Catholicism the spirit of Babylon has infiltrated put the church to sleep made her so greasy with grace that sin slips right through it that Wilderness that Wilderness of sin in that Wilderness a voice is going to cry out prepare the the way of Yahweh (3:28:49) and it's that Ministry it's that voice that's going to unleash the Messiah so that he can come back for a perfected bride a commandment keeping Holy Ghost filled spirit and Truth bride Hallelujah when is Elijah promised to come yua said in verse 10 behold Elijah will come come and restore all things before the Sabbath day the millennial Reign is the is the Sabbath day and just before that day that's why if you're not a Sabbath keeper I want to say this and I say it with the deepest love and respect that I can until I understood the Sabbath day I (3:29:42) understood nothing I mean that I was Holy Ghost filled fire baptized running the AIS and Swinging From chandeliers but until I understood the Sabbath day and the Mysteries contained within it and the holy until I got it I didn't know anything and if you're watching me if you don't keep the holy days you don't even know what time it is children listen the day of Yahweh could have began 2,000 years ago oh yeah two days ago two days ago it could have began why did the day of the Lord not began 2,000 years ago because they failed to (3:30:31) recognize Elijah and yua they didn't recognize him no sir they ignored him they ignored his voice now watch this I want to read to you exactly when our Lord is coming Hosea 6 and verse 2 would you go there in your Bible I want to slow down for those of you that want to find these scriptures again at the end of this lesson I'll take questions and I will answer them I will stay with you tonight on this family gathering as we study the word of yah together read Hebrews 6 and2 and after two days he will revive us and in the third day he will raise us (3:31:18) up and we will live in his sight that's talking about the resurrection after two days what did that mean when Israel rejected Messiah two days ago 2,000 years ago here is a Bible prophecy that says after 2,000 years or two days he is going to restore us sha he's going to restore us what is the Bible say yua is waiting for in the heavens the restoring of all things and who's going to do the restoring Elijah and who is Elijah the strength of Yahweh the voice of strong strength that's doing what preparing the way of the Lord hallelujah we're getting (3:32:08) so many comments I'm so sorry so I love man I love I love you folks you are the cream of the crop you you are the best of the bunch you are faithful commandment Keepers to our God and I'm so thankful for every single one of you that are watching with us tonight now I want to take you if you don't mind and I want to go a little bit further with this what is the spirit of Elijah have you heard that joh John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah one of the greatest understandings that I've ever received in my calling is when I came to (3:32:46) understand what the word Spirit really means the word spirit is a little mystical it's a little foggy but the truth is the spirit of a man is the mind of a man not the brain but that Supernatural part that reasons that makes you separate from an animal so the spirit of Elijah is the mind of Elijah and what does a mind do it thinks there is a generation Rising that's going to think like Elijah oh yeah they're going to have the spirit or the mindset or the thinking or the anointing of Elijah and what did Elijah (3:33:32) do Elijah changed people Elijah changed Nations Elijah changed people he started schools for the prophets Elijah was an element of change he changed everywhere he went he prepared the way he was a Pioneer a forerunner and that spirits in the Earth today many are missing it but listen to me there is a voice in the wilderness today saying prepare the way of the Lord now what does that mean he prepared the way the Hebrew word for prepared is pan pan means to make a turn or to restore or to turn turn back Hallelujah (3:34:18) woo glory be to the almighty God Elijah is going to have a turn Ministry the spirit of Elijah will make you turn so far around even those people in your church will think you've lost your mind they'll mock you they'll criticize you but listen he's coming to prepare the way to turn now what does the word way mean and he Hebrew it's the word direct where we get the word direction Elijah will come and completely change your direction yeah see when you hear the voice of Elijah you'll be living in Babylon you'll love your religion you'll (3:35:03) love your roots you'll love your church but when Elijah comes you'll fall in love with truth he'll turn you from your Traditions to the word instead of you proud to be Baptist or proud to be Pentecostal or proud to be Church of God you'll be a word bride you'll be a bride of the word you will F that's what the ministry of Elijah does they pull you out of Babylon and put you on the straight and narrow path that starts at Passover and goes all the way to Tabernacle now how does God change his people when yeh gets ready to change (3:35:47) his church how does he do it he doesn't do it with a week-long Revival he does not do it with the ministry of an evangelist or a pastor no he sends Elijah he has always prepared his people for his coming with the voice of Elijah or the thinking of Elijah turning us back to the Commandments of God that's called preparing the way Yahweh has already he loves the spirit of Elijah so much he's used it three times already and he's he's using it now for the fourth time when was the first time oh when Elijah himself entered into Israel (3:36:31) the church and you know even though there were 7,000 prophets of Baal I mean there were 7,000 I'm sorry Israelites that loved y way only Elijah confronted the leadership only Elijah confronted Jezebel and Ahab do you know who Ahab was he was the pastor of Israel he was the king he was the pastor of the church he was the leader you know who Jezebel was she was a woman preacher now I don't mean that in a bad way cuz that's not what I'm saying here but she was the daughter of the priest of uh her her father was uh uh well Jezebel was the (3:37:10) daughter of King ethal ethal was the high priest of aarte or Ishtar or the Queen of Heaven which is where we get Easter from so Jezebel brought Easter into Israel she brought istar Worship in now see God's fine with paganism God has no problem with it he's going to deal with it one day until it comes into his church Israel the moment it comes in he'll send an Elijah to get it out what's the first thing Elijah did when he came into the church baby you want to know the first thing he did he started tearing down Pagan altars pagan holidays (3:37:49) Pagan celebrations Pagan Sundays Pagan everything that was contrary to the ways of Israel he came and tore down their churches my God he did what do you think the altars were that he tore down that was their churches of that day Elijah tore them down then he killed 400 Pagan preachers brother V you need more wisdom you need to be nicer to people I've tried you need to speak your words with gentleness we've tried it look where the church is you need to be more kind we've tried it Elijah said enough already give (3:38:31) me a sledgehammer these Pagan altars are coming down and then he turned to Ahab and prophesied to Ahab he confronted leadership he did what Yahweh called him to do and no he didn't like it but you know what else I know about a Elijah he was such a broken man he was so human and yet God was with him he was so human he let a woman scare him he ran for 16 miles the next day because Jezebel threatened his life I want to tell you don't you ever fail to hear the voice of Elijah through men that you think are broken (3:39:10) Elijah failed in many ways but his voice was an OED now listen the spirit of Jezebel if you've been called to this Elijah Ministry there will always be a jezebel in your life to destroy your influence what was the next time that the spirit of Elijah came don't you remember Elisha what did he ask Elijah for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and Elisha spent the rest of his ministry destroying things that were contrary to the word of God and then the third time that that Spirit came the third time that it came (3:39:54) was in John the Baptist when he said make straight repent and make straight I want to read to you out of the book of First Kings 18 and verse 21 I want to show you what the voice of Elijah does stay with me please don't leave yet I promise you we're almost through and I'll answer questions first Kings 18 and 21 listen to what the message of Elijah Was Elijah said to the church when will you stop going back and forth between two doctrines if Yahweh is the mighty one then follow him but if the church then follow the (3:40:40) church that's the voice of Elijah have you heard that voice lately have you heard voice lately on YouTube on Facebook have you seen him among all of I hear him I hear him every day as of late I hear the voice of Elijah saying how long will you love the false teachings of the church and love Yahweh how long that's what the voice of Elijah sounds like he'll make you choose one or the other and you will block him on Facebook you'll you'll you'll cut him off on YouTube you'll do everything to get his voice out of your mind but (3:41:15) there's one thing you can never do to Elijah you can never unhear what he had to say hallelujah now let's come down to my closing I want you to notice before we go let's go to Luke 1 13 through 17 now remember the angel what did mik what did Malachi say Elijah would do let's talk about this he would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers before for the day of the Lord that's the day we're living in but what does that mean let's find out let's go to Luke 1 verse 13 and I'm going to answer that question (3:41:55) for you before we answer other questions Luke 13:17 if you're watching us and you would like to be part of an association of ministers that are uniting in spite of difference we've just formed a wonderful Fellowship we would love for you to join with us it's called the first harvest Association of ministers we call it Fam Family why don't you get to know us go to first harvest church. (3:42:23) org Luke 1:3 here the angel of the Lord spoke to Mary and I'm sorry Elizabeth about John the Baptist and here's what Elizabeth said or the angel said verse number 13 but the angel said to him do not be afraid Zachariah for your prayer has been heard your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son you will call his name yakan which is John you will have joy and gladness and many Will Rejoice at his birth and he will be great in the sight of Yahweh and will drink neither strong drink for he will be filled with the holy ghost from (3:43:10) his mother's womb the work I'm doing in her belly is the Holy Ghost doing it and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the fathers I mean he will turn I'm sorry he will turn the fathers to the children now notice where the angel stops notice that Malachi tells us that John that Elijah would do two things but the angel only mentioned one that this that this Elijah would do that he would just turn the fathers to the children but Malachi said there would be two things so so what's going on here I'll tell you what's going on (3:43:52) here the first Eli this Elijah in John he wasn't coming to turn the children to the father he was coming to turn the fathers to the children what does that mean he was going to point those that were Bound in Judaism the fathers of Israel Abraham Isaac and Jacob he was going to cause them to look Beyond Judaism and see yua and in Yeshua the Lost tribes would come the children of Israel would turn back would turn he would cause the fathers through yua to reach out to the Lost tribes but then when the final voice of Elijah comes he will do just (3:44:36) the opposite he will cause the Lost tribes to turn their hearts back to Israel that's what's happening in our day The Voice voice of Elijah is calling you out do you know how many Christians I talk to every day that do not know that they are an Israelite they laugh at us when they see the toit around our shoulder or hear us play the chofar or see the manora and I don't get upset they don't know who they are they have an identity crisis but the voice of Elijah is going to cause in this generation men and women to turn (3:45:12) their hearts from their denomination to turn their hearts from their Christian tradition and it's going to turn them back to the fathers of Israel that is the day we are living in now in closing my final verse Luke chapter 4 go with me to Luke chapter 4 and I'm not going to read this but I want you to read it later Luke 4 and 17 I want you to read this later now verse 17 and yua takes up the book and he begins to read and I want you to notice at verse 21 and verse 20 he closed the book verse 19 he came to preach the acceptable year (3:45:58) of Yahweh but if you go compare that to Isaiah 61 2-9 there's more to his ministry and it's to preach the Vengeance of our God he's not done that yet Elijah has not turned the hearts of the children to the father and Yeshua has not come and preached the day of Vengeance of our God like Isaiah go compare Isaiah 61 2-9 to Luke 4:1 17-21 and see if there's not something missing brothers and sisters I declare to you tonight as I begin to open this up for any questions you might have I declare to you now that the voice of Elijah is (3:46:42) in our Earth today the ministry of Elijah is here restoration Linda Crawford is here brother Ricky Ezra it's here we're living in the moments darling sister Von that truth and spirit the two witnesses are here I wished I had time to bring this message on I tell you what I'll do tomorrow if I if I'm able I'll teach on the two witnesses I'll bring us from the Spirit of Elijah and I'll bring it to the two witnesses and I'll show you I'll prove to you that the two witnesses are on the Earth right now we're going to go to the Book of (3:47:32) Malachi 4 verse 5 through verse 6 now I want to tell you a little bit about me those of you that don't know us um and those of you that think you do but you really don't I am fourth generation Pentecostal now let me explain what that means my grandmother my great grandmother my mother all holy ghost filled fire baptized from the roots of ausa street that is where I come from and I cling to my roots as long as those roots cling to the word of Yahweh but several years ago about five years ago we begin to understand that not only did we need to (3:48:21) cling to the Pentecostal roots of our faith but even past those roots were some deeper roots and it's the Hebrew roots of our faith that so many Christians know so little about and truly it has changed my walk with my heavenly father I didn't even realize I had a heavenly father in those days but one of the benefits of growing up in the Pentecostal church we had a great love for Bible prophecy and we heard some of the greatest Bible prophecy teaching concerning Daniel and the the seven horns and all of those things that (3:49:03) taught us about the coming of the Lord irin Baxter and I could go down the line so many wonderful teachers but in in in recent weeks I've come to understand that perhaps the greatest of our Bible teachers missed a very important point and I want to bring what I believe tonight is one of the greatest understandings of how close we are to the coming of our Messiah and it's going to be found in the Book of Malachi 4 verse 5 I hope you'll turn there in your Bibles this is not a sermon this is a Bible study where on (3:49:47) Sabbath night all of the family gets together the family of Israel and we study the word of Yahweh together let's read Malachi 4 verse 5 uh and verse number six praise the Lord now before we read that remember I'm reading from a different version than some of you may have behold I will send Elijah the law and the prophets which is the strength of Yahweh the name Elijah remember this the meaning of a name is more important than the name now why do I say that because we got people fighting over how to say the sacred name it's embarrassing to (3:50:37) watch get the intent of the name right and then you've got the name right remember God desires for you to desire to know his name more than he does that you can correctly pronounce his name keep that right there because this junk is getting out of control but the word Elijah the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh now what do you think of when you think of the strength of Yahweh do you think of timidity do you think of quiet wiess do you think of um ashamed do I don't I think of an ox I think of plowing I think of combative I (3:51:25) think of strong the name Elijah means the strength of Yahweh keep that in your mind as we continue to study behold I'm sending the strength of Yahweh be for the coming of the great and Dreadful day of Yahweh he said if you want to know if I'm about to return look across the land and see if you see Elijah now sadly many people have looked for a man rather than the meaning of the name Elijah the meaning is the strength of Yahweh he said says just before the coming of the Lord you're going to see Rise up in the earth a (3:52:23) strength that you've not seen before there will be a voice that will rise up that's afraid of nobody that has the strength of a mule and the T the tenacity of an ox there's going to be a strong anointing that rests upon the men the women of Yahweh just before the coming of our God verse 6 and what will it do it will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers and before I come and strike the Earth with a curse utter destruction will come in the day of Yahweh now the (3:53:19) reason people do not care about the day of Yahweh they have been lied to So Long by dispensational preachers that have convinced us all in times past that we would not be here during the day of Yahweh but that we unlike our predecessors would be vacuumed out of here into some hole in the sky and we would escape the terror that was coming upon the earth that is a Lie from the pit of Hell and you can tell somebody I said so because the word says so Yahweh says before my day and he's going to have a day when he strikes the Earth (3:54:06) with a curse before that day comes something must happen everybody's caught up in these blood moons and I have no problem with that everybody's looking to the sky and I have no problem with that but I dare say that very few are looking for the true sign of the coming of the son of man now the strange thing about this verse in Malachi is Elijah already came thousands of years before Elijah wrote this verse how can these things be because Elijah is not a man Elijah is the strength of Yahweh Elijah is the voice of one crying in the wilderness (3:55:02) prepare ye the way of the Lord don't get your thinking messed up when you hear the word Elijah I want you to change your thinking and hear these words words the strength of the almighty God go with me to Matthew chap 17 we have hundreds watching us right now and I thank you from the bottom of my heart this lesson is not for the faint of heart if you love church but you don't love prophets if you love church but you don't love truth you may not like what's coming your way but truth will set you free Matthew chapter (3:55:44) 6 17 if you're watching join us for the Feast of Tabernacles in South Carolina we're going to be there with the first harvest Association of ministers and if you want to be around Holy Ghost Field commandment keeping men and women you need to go ahead and book your room as quickly as possible go to our website first harvest church. (3:56:09) org to register Matthew 17 and verse 10 let's read it then the disciples asked him saying why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first see they could not accept that yua was here because the prophets had all said that before yua came Elijah would come but yet they had been walking around Israel and nobody had seen Elijah but yet here's the Messiah it seems to be out of sequence and out of order order but listen how Yeshua answered them in verse 11 Yeshua said unto them Elijah truly will come and restore all things now notice he said (3:57:05) will come yua said in this verse that there was going to be another coming of Elijah he says Elijah will come and he will restore all things now there's two traits of Elijah I want you to take note the first trait of Elijah is the strength of Yahweh the next trait of Elijah is he is all about restoration of things that have fallen down he's coming to restore he's not coming to start a new religion he's coming to repair an old religion Hallelujah listen verse 12 but then yua messes them up again and he says but I (3:57:59) say unto you Elijah the strength of Yahweh has come already now notice the two phases of Elijah that yua Rec recognizes but your church does not Yeshua says Elijah will come and he has come future and present that which is and was and is to come that notice that because the church has forgotten that he said Elijah will come and he said he came already but you did not recognize him but you did whatever you pleased you heard his message but you didn't recognize that that man was more than a man he was a strength of Yahweh a (3:59:03) restorer of truth and you missed it you missed it because you thought he was crazy you missed it because you thought he was a quack you missed it because you failed to recognize what he was saying was more than a man's message he said you did whatever you wanted to do with him in the same way the son of man will be persecuted like Elijah was so what is the third trait of Elijah the first one the strength of Yahweh the second one a restorer the third one persecuted by whom who was Yeshua talking to the leaders of the church the (3:59:53) leaders of religion the leaders of men that were walking in yesterday's truth they saw Elijah come but they didn't know who he was talking about until finally it dawned on them that he was speaking about John the Baptist or yakan the immersed they knew immediately because they knew that he came in the spirit and the mind and the mantle of Elijah now let's go to Isaiah 40 quickly turn in your Bibles my time will run out very soon Isaiah 40 1-5 now let's read this Comfort my people says the father speak comfortably (4:00:41) to Jerusalem and announce to her that her s has expired that her iniquity is pardoned that she has received from yahweh's hand double for all of her sins the voice when will Jerusalem find Comfort he said speak to Israel and comfort her and tell her about the ministry of a man that is coming and he tells her in verse three the voice of him who cries in the wilderness prepare ye the way of Yahweh Hallelujah make straight in the desert a highway for your father every Valley will be exalted and every Mountain will be made low crooked places (4:01:38) will be made straight and rough places will be made plain for the Salvation of Yahweh is revealed notice this he told Israel Isaiah prophesied to Israel he said listen Israel Rejoice I'm going to tell you when your sins will be blotted out when you hear a Voice Hallelujah when you hear a voice and it's not it's a voice unlike the priest and the leaders of the church it's a voice that's coming from a Barren Place uh it's a voice of a man that has no pedigree he has no backing he has no Prestige he has nobody that believes in (4:02:24) him but he's got a voice it's a strong voice it's a voice that makes enemies mad and Friends get confused he's going to come and make straight the Crooked places in Israel he's going to rearrange the house of Israel and he is coming as a voice so trait number four Elijah is a voice remember that Elijah is a strong voice there are certain ministers that carry an authority in their voice it's the glory of their anointing it's in their voices it shakes rooms when they walk in why because there is an anointing on their voice to (4:03:18) cause Israel to hear the word of the Lord amen and notice what he says after this voice comes and after he makes the Crooked way straight and after he cleans up the church then notice what he said in verse five then the salvation of Yahweh will be revealed brothers and sisters what does the name salvation of Yahweh equate to in Hebrew yua Yahweh is salvation he said after you hear this voice you will see yua coming on that great day I want to say this to every one of you watching me and I want to make it plain that while we are waiting for the (4:04:11) ministry the return Ministry of the Messiah the return Ministry of Christ yua cannot and will not happen without the return Ministry of Elijah without the return of a voice of one notice Elijah was the voice of one he wasn't part of the many he was a lonely voice oh let me tell you something and I want you to hear me right now now he was kicked out of every Church in Israel Jezebel kicked him out because his voice was so compelling it demanded people to hear what he had to say I have a lot of friends that tell me probably I've see (4:05:02) three or four of you watching now they tell me they say Shane I love you but every Christmas I un I unfriend you for about a month so you'll quit driving us crazy about those hellish Christmas trees Hallelujah well let me explain something one day you'll not be able to say that you did not hear a voice it wasn't a voice that has a lot of backing it was a voice of a flawed man and those of you that are watching me that have the spirit of Elijah on your life most of you are flawed most of you you have history you have a past You Came From A (4:05:40) wilderness which is a broken place you have nothing to offer in the way of the church but in the way of God you have plenty please tell this on the mountaintops tell it everywhere you can without the restoration of the Elijah Ministry the Messiah will not return it would be out of order how many knows that Yahweh is a god of order everything with him is sequential it is rhythmic it is so perfect and it never fails if Elijah has to come first then why are you looking for the Messiah while ignoring the voice of one crying in the (4:06:26) wilderness there's some of you watching me right now you're crying out I see your videos I see you brother mclin I see you sister Cheryl I see you brother Ricky I see you brother Tim I see I I can't name names but I see all of you lifting those voices declaring this end time message now the reason that people don't understand Malachi chapter 5 chapter 4 is because they don't understand what the day of the Lord is you know the Bible speaks more about the day of the Lord that it does about the Son of God absolutely if you go read the (4:07:05) law and the prophets it mentions the day of the Lord more than the coming of Messiah as a child and what's so sad is the church church is clueless about the day of the Lord let me prove it to you shall I right now when the sun set a few moments ago the day of the Lord began what day is he Lord of he's Lord of one day hassatan Satan flesh is Lord of six days but there's one day out of the week that yua has claimed as his own do you know why cuz it only takes him one day to mess up six to to clean up six days of mess ups he's just amazing (4:07:52) like that he's lord of the seventh day that's why every Seventh Day He commands us to come into celebration to be reminded of the fact that the day of the Lord is coming the 7,000th year is coming and we celebrate it every seventh day so when we talk about the voice of Elijah how it must come before the day of the Lord brothers and sisters do you know what time it is do you understand that the tick tock on the big clock is at the moment approaching the seventh day do you know what Happ no you don't or you'd be living right you'd be keeping Sabbath (4:08:33) you'd be at all the commanded assemblies you'd be walking in Holiness you'd be walking in sanctification preparing for the seventh day so the reason people don't know about Elijah they don't know about the day of the Lord brothers and sisters you're in the day of the Lord right now it started at Sunset it is a shadow of things to come oh yeah the great seventh day is coming that's why we started off with the chofar because that day the Trump of God will begin that day and it will begin with gross Darkness that's why we begin (4:09:09) the Sabbath in the period of Darkness we start at sunset because it reminds us that the darkness is coming upon the face of the Earth but there will be light hosiah in the evening time there will wo there will be light in the evening there will be a voice just before the darkness begins and that voice is in the land today can you hear it are you part of it or or do you fail to recognize what's happening all around you while you're having Church while you're building a Congregation of do nothings While You're Building people (4:09:54) that just want to be saved and don't have any idea why they're saved because the kingdom of God is coming to our planet and there is a voice declaring that voice is making straight the Crooked places it's trying to turn first day into seventh day it's trying to get everything I'm meddling now I'll stop now let's continue on because I want to get to some very valid points the reason that he's lord of the Sabbath let's go to Acts chapter 3 and 21 Acts chapter 3 and verse 21 I'll take questions at the end of this lesson if (4:10:34) you're making comments I can't see them right now because they distract me in a good way but I will go back when we're done and we will open the the floor for anyone that wants to comment let's read Acts 3 and 21 shall we now this is talking about yua whom the Heaven Must hold back until the time of the restoration of all things about which Yahweh spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began now hold on when will the heavens read that verse again that verse says that right now the heavens are literally holding back the (4:11:23) Messiah he cannot return When people tell you the Lord could come at any moment that is the biggest bunch he comes on time and if you don't understand holy days and anointed and appointed times then you don't understand when he's coming we know when he's coming he came right on time at Tabernacle was for his birth he came right on time at Pentecost for the infilling of his church he's going to come right on time Hallelujah for his people now notice what this says but the heavens are holding him back until when (4:12:00) at the restoration at the restoration of all things and who did Yahweh say in the Book of Malachi would restore when wooo Hallelujah the Bible said Elijah was coming to do what restore all things the Bible said that heaven was holding yua back until when Elijah comes somebody listen to me now how long is Yeshua being held back I want you to hear me please I beg you to listen what I got to say have you ever been to a wedding have you ever been to a wedding you can have guests at the wedding you can have the building (4:12:51) you can have the decorations you can have the bridesma and you can have the best men and you can have the preacher and you can have the groom the groom but there's one thing you cannot have a wedding without you got to have a bride you cannot have a wedding without a bride yua would have already returned if his bride had been perfected by the voice of Elijah the Bible said he's being held back until the restoration who's going to do the restoring Elijah The Voice the lonely voice that cries in the wilderness what Wilderness what did (4:13:35) the Bible say there would be a famine of in the last day the word of God the church is the Wilderness good God I'm so Pentecostal I'm about to lose it up here the church is the Wilderness of dry bones the V the the church is the Wilderness that the the spirit of Roman Catholicism the spirit of Babylon has infiltrated put the church to sleep made her so greasy with grace that sin slips right through it that Wilderness that Wilderness of sin in that Wilderness a voice is going to cry out prepare the way of Yahweh and it's that Ministry (4:14:20) it's that voice that's going to unleash the Messiah so that he can come back for a perfected bride a commandment keeping Holy Ghost filled spirit and Truth bride Hallelujah when is Elijah promised to come yua said in verse 10 be behold Elijah will come and restore all things before the Sabbath day the millennial Reign is the is the Sabbath day and just before that day that's why if you're not a Sabbath keeper I want to say this and I say it with the deepest love and respect that I can until I understood the Sabbath day I (4:15:11) understood nothing I mean that I was Holy Ghost filled fire baptized running the aisles and Swinging From chandeliers but until I understood the Sabbath day and the Mysteries contained within it and the holy until I got it I didn't know anything and if you're watching me and if you don't keep the holy days you don't even know what time it is children listen the day of Yahweh could have began to 2,000 years ago oh yeah two days ago two days ago it could have began why did the day of the Lord not begin 2,000 years (4:15:57) ago because they failed to recognize Elijah and yua they didn't recognize him no sir they ignored him they ignored his voice now watch this I want to read read to you exactly when our Lord is coming Hosea 6 and verse 2 would you go there in your Bible I want to slow down for those of you that want to find these scriptures again at the end of this lesson I'll take questions and I will answer them I will stay with you tonight on this family gathering as we study the word of yah together read Hebrews 6 and2 and after two (4:16:40) days he will revive us and in the third day he will raise us up and we will live in his sight that's talking about the resurrection after two days what did that mean when Israel rejected Messiah two days ago 2000 years ago here is a Bible prophecy that says after 2,000 years or two days he is going to restore us he's going to restore us what is the Bible say yua is waiting for in the heavens the restoring of all things and who's going to do the restoring Elijah and who is Elijah the strength of Yahweh the voice of strong strength that's (4:17:31) doing what preparing the way of the Lord hallelujah we're getting so many comments I'm so sorry so I love man I love I love you folks you are the cream of the crop you are the best of the bunch you are faithful commandment Keepers to our God and I'm so thankful for every single one of you that are watching with us tonight now I want to take you if you don't mind and I want to go a little bit further with this what is the spirit of Elijah have you heard that joh John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah one of the greatest (4:18:11) understandings that I've ever received in my calling is when I came to understand what the word Spirit really means the word spirit is a little mystical it's a little foggy but the truth is the spirit of a man is the mind of a man not the brain but that Supernatural part that reasons that makes you separate from an animal so the spirit of Elijah is the mind of Elijah and what does a mind do it thinks there is a generation Rising that's going to think like Elijah oh yeah they're going to have the spirit or the mindset or the thinking or the (4:18:57) anointing of Elijah and what did Elijah do Elijah changed people Elijah changed Nations Elijah changed people he started schools for the prophets Elijah was an element of change he changed everywhere he went he prepared the way he was a Pioneer a forerunner and that spirit's in the Earth today many are missing it but listen to me there is a voice in the wilderness today saying prepare the way of the Lord now what does that mean he prepared the way the Hebrew word for prepared is pan pan means to make a turn or to to (4:19:43) restore or to turn back Hallelujah woo glory be to the almighty God Elijah is going to have a turn Ministry the spirit of Elijah will make you turn so far around even those people in your church will think you've lost your mind they'll mock you they'll criticize you but listen he's coming to prepare the way to turn now what does the word way mean in Hebrew it's the word direct where we get the word direction Elijah will come and completely change your direction yeah see when you hear the voice of Elijah you'll be living in Babylon you'll love (4:20:31) your religion you'll love your roots you'll love your church but when Elija comes you'll fall in love with truth he'll turn you from your tradition to the word instead of you proud to be Baptist or proud to be Pentecostal or proud to be Church of God you'll be a word bride you'll be a bride of the word you will F that's what the ministry of Elijah does they pull you out of Babylon and put you on the straight and narrow path that starts at Passover and goes all the way to Tabernacle now how does God change his people when Yahweh gets ready to (4:21:16) change his church how does he do it he doesn't do it with a week-long Revival he does not do it with the ministry of an evangelist or a pastor no he sends Elijah he has always prepared his people for his coming with the voice of Elijah or the thinking of Elijah turning us back to the Commandments of God that's called preparing the way Yahweh has already he loves the spirit of Elijah so much he's used it three times already and he's he's using it now for the fourth time when was the first time oh when Elijah himself entered into Israel (4:22:00) the church and you know even though there were 7,000 prophets of Baal I mean there were 7,000 I'm sorry Israelites that loved Yahweh only Elijah confronted the leadership only Elijah confronted Jezebel and Ahab do you know who Ahab was he was the pastor of Israel he was the king he was the pastor of the church he was the leader you know who Jezebel was she was a woman preacher now I don't mean that in a bad way CU that's not what I'm saying here but she was a daughter of the priest of uh her her father was uh uh well Jezebel was the (4:22:40) daughter of King ethal eball was the high priest of aarte or Ishtar or the Queen of Heaven which is where we get Easter from so Jezebel brought Easter into Israel she brought istar Worship in now see God's fine with paganism God has no problem with it he's going to deal with it one day until it comes into his church Israel the moment it comes in he'll send an Elijah to get it out what's the first thing Elijah did when he came into the church baby you want know the first thing he did he started tearing down Pagan altars pagan holidays (4:23:18) Pagan celebrations Pagan Sundays Pagan everything that was contrary to the ways of Israel he came and tore down their churches my God he did what do you think the altars were that he tore down that was their churches of that day Elijah tore them down then he killed 400 Pagan preachers brother V you need more wisdom you need to be nicer to people I've tried you need to speak your words with gentleness we've tried it look where the church is you need to be more kind we've tried it Elijah said enough already give me a (4:24:01) sledgehammer these Pagan altars are coming down and then he turned to Ahab and prophesied to Ahab he confronted leadership he did what Yahweh called him to do and no he didn't like it but you know what else I know about a Elijah he was such a broken man he was so human and yet God was with him he was so human he let a woman scare him he ran for 16 miles the next day because Jezebel threatened his life I want to tell you don't you ever fail to hear the voice of Elijah through men that you think are broken Elijah failed in many ways (4:24:43) but his voice was anointed now listen the spirit of Jezebel if you've been called to this Elijah Ministry there will always be a jezebel in your life to destroy your influence what was the next time that the spirit of Elijah came don't you remember Elisha what did he ask Elijah for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and Elisha spent spent the rest of his ministry destroying things that were contrary to the word of God and then the third time that that Spirit came the third time that it came was in John the Baptist when he said make (4:25:26) straight repent and make straight I want to read to you out of the book of First Kings chapter 18 and verse 21 I want to show you what the voice of Elijah does stay with me please don't leave yet I promise you we're almost through and I'll answer questions First Kings 18 and 21 listen to what the message of Elijah Was Elijah said to the church when will you stop going back and forth between two doctrines if Yahweh is the mighty one then follow him but if the church then follow the church that's the voice of Elijah have (4:26:12) you heard that voice lately have you heard his voice lately on YouTube on Facebook have you seen him among all of I hear him I hear him every day as of late I hear the voice of Elijah saying how long will you love the false teachings of the church and love Yahweh how long that's what the voice of Elijah sounds like he'll make you choose one or the other and you will block him on Facebook you'll you'll you'll cut him off on YouTube you'll do everything to get his voice out of your mind but there's one thing you can never do to (4:26:46) Elijah you can never unhear what he had to say hallelujah now let's come down to my closing I want you to notice before we go let's go to Luke 1 13-1 17 now remember the angel what did Mike what did Malachi say Elijah would do let's talk about this he would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers before the day of the Lord that's the day we're living in but what does that mean let's find out let's go to Luke 1 verse 13 and I'm going to answer that question for you before we answer other questions (4:27:27) Luke 13117 if you're watching us and you would like to be part of an association of ministers that are uniting in spite of difference we've just formed a wonderful Fellowship we would love for you to join with us it's called the first Harvest Association of ministers we call it Fam Family why don't you get to know us go to first harvest church. (4:27:54) org Luke 1: 13 here the angel of the Lord spoke to Mary and I'm sorry Elizabeth about John the Baptist and here's what Elizabeth said or the angel said verse number 13 but the angel said to him do not be afraid Zachariah for your prayer has been heard your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son you will call his name yakan which is John you will have joy and gladness and many Will Rejoice at his birth and he will be great in the sight of Yahweh and will drink neither strong drink for he will be filled with the holy ghost from his mother's womb the work I'm doing in (4:28:42) her belly is the Holy Ghost doing it and he will turn many of the children of Israel to the fathers I mean he will turn I'm sorry he will turn the fathers to the children now notice where the angel stops notice that Malachi tells us that John that Elijah would do two things but the angel only mentioned one that this that this Elijah would do that he would just turn the fathers to the children but Malachi said there would be two things so so what's going on here I tell you what's going on here the first Eli this Elijah in (4:29:25) John he wasn't coming to turn the children to the father he was coming to turn the fathers to the children what does that mean he was going to point those that were Bound in Judaism the fathers of Israel Abraham Isaac and Jacob he was going to cause them to look Beyond Judaism and see yua and in yua the Lost tribes would come the children of Israel would turn back would turn he would cause the fathers through yua to reach out to the Lost tribes but then when the final voice of Elijah comes he will do just the opposite he will cause the Lost (4:30:08) tribes to turn their hearts back to Israel that's what's happening in our day the voice of Elijah is calling you out do you know how many Christians I talk to every day that don't not know that they are an Israelite they laugh at us when they see the toed around our shoulder or hear us play the chaar or see the manora and I don't get upset they don't know who they are they have an identity crisis but the voice of Elijah is going to cause in this generation men and women to turn their Hearts from their denomination to (4:30:44) turn their hearts from their Christian tradition and it's going to turn them back to the fathers of Israel that is the day we are living in now in closing my final verse Luke chap 4 go with me to Luke chapter 4 and I'm not going to read this but I want you to read it later Luke 4 and 17 I want you to read this later now now verse 17 and yua takes up the book and he begins to read and I want you to notice at verse 21 and verse 20 he closed the book verse 19 he came to preach the