LESSON 33: WHO IS ELIJAH THE PROPHET?

Purpose: To reveal who Elijah is, and his work.

Introduction
Malachi 4:5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day
of the LORD.”
Malachi 3:1-4 “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord,
whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight
in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who
shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit [as] a
refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that
they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and
Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.”
TM 475 “Prophecy must be fulfilled. The Lord says: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." Somebody is to come in the spirit and power of
Elijah, [SEE APPENDIX.] and when he appears, men may say: "You are too earnest, you do not interpret
the Scriptures in the proper way. Let me tell you how to teach your message.’”
3T. 62 “The prophet Malachi declares: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the
heart of the children to their fathers." Here the prophet describes the character of the work. Those who are
to prepare the way for the second coming of Christ are represented by faithful Elijah, as John came in the
spirit of Elijah to prepare the way for Christ's first advent. The great subject of reform is to be agitated,
and the public mind is to be stirred. Temperance in all things is to be connected with the message, to turn
the people of God from their idolatry, their gluttony, and their extravagance in dress and other things.”
Note:
(a) EG White did not claim to be Elijah the Prophet. Let alone even the title “prophet” as she denied so
in 1SM 35-36. Neither did the SDA Church tell her those words in TM 475. Moreover, hers was the
Judgment of the dead message, NOT of the great and dreadful day – judgment of the living – which
is the 4th Angel’s Message. In addition, though GC 425-426 states that Mal. 3 referred to the coming
of the Lord to the heavenly Sanctuary in 1844, it directly applies to the Judgment of the living,
because the Levites who are purified, go out to bring offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
(b) Some false teachers in the SRod message mislead many by putting VT Houteff as prototypical
Elijah. But in the science of typology, you can’t have two prototypes for a single type and also a
single antitype. John the Baptist was the single prototypical Elijah, and VT Houteff the single
antitype.
1* WHERE IS THE HOME OF ELIJAH: NEW YORK, MISSIORI, SALEM, PHILIPINES,
CANADA…..?
3SC2:8 (Symbolic Code Vol. 3, Number 2, Page 8) “The ceremony, performed by Elder E.T. Wilson,
was simple, solemn, and unforgettable, beautifully befitting the occasion. Moreover, it was the first
marriage on Mt. Carmel, the home of the Elijah message, which is now in the process of restoring
'every divine institution.'”
2. IS ELIJAH A MULTITUDE OF MINISTERS, FEW INDIVIDUALS, OR A SINGLE MAN?
General Conference Special (GCS) 8 -9 “Nevertheless, one's only safety will be in the teaching of
Elijah, for there will be no other voice of timely Truth and authority to whom one may turn. Any
others will lead their victims blind-folded into perdition….‘Elijah's message and movement will be
the only God-sent ones, the only ones to fear, to love, to stand by, to live or to die for. No, there will
be no other shield when heaven opens and the storm breaks in all its dread fury upon the world, to
unavoidably pour down its lethal lightning from the skies.”
GCS 19, 22, 23 “This surely confirms the conclusion that since Elijah is to herald the great day, he can
therefore be the only one who will rightly interpret the prophecies of the day, which are still mysteries
to Christendom, and even to our own Denomination! …Since the Scriptures clearly picture Elijah and his
work, and also what the day is to be like, none who will humbly inquire about him and his work need to
guess or to be in the dark concerning either his identity or his mission, for it is his God-given duty to
publish the timely truths as revealed to him out of the prophecies. And so all who are willing and
obedient, will have no trouble recognizing him and his message (John 7:17). They will know that anyone
who comes with a message other than the message found in the prophecies concerning the great and
dreadful day of the Lord, is not the promised Elijah….What a blasphemous theft! -- should one
endeavor to steal away the truth about the prophet's office, to pass on a lie instead, -- to say that
Elijah is not an individual but a group of people, in the face of the fact that the types, and the
prophecy as well, besides Heaven's law and order, disallow such a thing.”
GCS 32, 33, 34, 35, 37 “Again, if anyone should possibly entertain the idea that this promise of a
prophet means a multitude of preachers, then as surely as your soul lives, that one is fooling himself
as badly as those misled followers of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram fooled themselves in their
presumptuous thinking that those three prophetic office seekers and self-promoters were also prophets as
was Moses. Those three imposters, be it not forgotten, even claimed that the whole multitude were holy
(Num. 16:1-3)! But were they? And as surely as the earth swallowed them then, just so surely will all
such in these days, too, be swallowed by the earth when it opens its mouth and takes away the flood (Rev.
12:16)…. What is the Lord's counsel concerning the Voice of Elijah's publications? and what is the
title of them? The answer comes through Micah the prophet: "The Lord's voice crieth unto the city,
and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the Rod, and Who hath appointed it." Mic. 6:9.
Here is a Rod which speaks; and its voice, the scripture points out, is the voice of God to His
people.”
Tract 9:67 “Taking place in the end of the world, it perforce is the gathering of the people by Elijah's
message, the last Heaven-sent proclamation of the gospel, which is preached first to the church just
before the great and dreadful day of the Lord (Mal. 4:5), and then to all the world during that long-
expected day.”
3* IS THERE ANY INSPIRED INTERPRETER APART FROM EGW AND ELIJAH (VTH)?
5SC 1-5:3 “the two golden pipes, which carry the golden oil from the trees to the bowl, are the only two
mediums which God has employed since 1844 A.D. to interpret the Scriptures.”
Tract 6:44 “Here the Lord tells us that the milking of the two sheep and the young cow (the unfolding of
the heaven-sent scrolls) is not entrusted to all, but to "a man" (prophet). This means that the one through
whom the light is revealed, nourishes these sources of supply by arousing widespread interest in them,
thus keeping them alive and producing. And each one who would remain in the land, must give them his
steady patronage and be on the alert, of course, to interest others in their lasting, life-giving product.”
4* SOME WANT A SUCCESSOR TO VTH AS ANOTHER ELIJAH , BECAUSE AN ELIJAH
SHOULD BE LIVING TO RESTORE THE KINGDOM AND FERRY PEOPLE THERE - A JOSHUAH
TO MOSES?
Answerer Book 3:20-23 “ let it be remembered that the Exodus Movement, the type, was in two
sections, the first section being led by Moses, and the second by Joshua, and that it was the last, the
purified, section (that which grew up after the forty years' wilderness wandering, and after all but two
who were over twenty years of age when they left Egypt, had died) that possessed the land. The
Movement led by the Rod today is the only Movement in Christendom fitting the type--the Israel of
Joshua's day: like it, drawing its followers only from the parent Movement, and having as its threefold
objective the deliverance of God's people from bondage, the possession of the land and the establishment
of the kingdom. And just as the purified Israel of Joshua's day, the generation which survived the forty-
year wilderness wanderings, inherited first the final leadership of the typical Exodus Movement, and then
the land of promise, so the purified Israel today (the 144,000), the ones who survive the forty-year period
of wandering from 1890-1930, and who escape the slaughter of Ezekiel 9, are to be promoted to the final
leadership of the antitypical Exodus Movement, then to inherit "the promised land," and to be citizens in
the everlasting Kingdom.”
So EG White period = Moses’, and Joshua period = VT Houteff’s therefore this disqualifies any successor
to VHT.,
5* IS THE MESSAGE BY VTH – THE SHPHERD’S ROD ENOUGH FOR US UP TO THE
SLAUGHTER OF EZEK. 9?
1SRp 84-85 “And finally, when Jerusalem, their homeland, the land of promise, is liberated from Gentile
rule, "the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled," then will these emancipated children of the "captive daughter
of Zion" (Isa. 52:2), "return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall fear the Lord
and His goodness." Hos. 3:5. Then will they be reassured forever of an even more abundant supply
of pure, undefiled (Inspired) Truth.”
Note: what we have is enough. New truth in the Kingdom.
11 SC 2: 10 “The Enemy made Laodiceans believe they have no need of more Truth, that they have all
Truth that is necessary to get them through Heaven's portals, although God has declared that they are in
need of everything, and are about to be "spued out" (Rev. 3:16). Now we really are enriched with Truth if
we have studied and assimilated what has been given us, for we have had made available to us the "gold
that is tried in the fire" that we might be rich, the "eyesalve" that we "might see," and the "raiment" with
which we may be covered (Rev. 3), and the "extra oil" that our way might be lighted (Matt. 25).
Therefore the Devil is not going to attack us where he attacked Laodiceans, but he will tell us that we are
poor in Truth. He will do this in almost any way.”
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO CLAIM TO HAVE ADDITIONAL TRUTH TO OR ON
THE SROD, AND THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR SOME OTHER EXTRA OIL?
2TG 46:43-44 “The only ones that will endure to the end will be those who carefully watch their steps
from being carried away either by his additions to, or by his subtractions from, the works of
Inspiration.”
1TG 14:20-21 “Those who do not avail themselves of the golden oil, and those who continue ever to
hunt for some kind of oil, or whoever try to extract their own, will, of course, drop into the pit when
the earth opens her mouth to swallow up the flood. Then it is that ism-breathers and ism-seekers shall
forever pass away.”
iAns. 53 “From these and many other examples, we see that God not only never delegates one agent to
alter, to reset, or to countermand the message with which He has charged another agent, without
His first making the matter known to both, but also that He never honors with promotion those who
seek to uplift and aggrandize self, but that He exalts in due season those who humble themselves under
His mighty hand (1 Pet. 5:6).”
The Bashanites are very guilty because they have even gone ahead to re- set the SRod:

CONCLUsION
1SM 181 “Let the plain, simple statements of the Word of God be food for the mind; this speculating
upon ideas that are not clearly presented there is dangerous business.”
EW 96 “I was shown that the truth once published now, will stand, for it is the truth for the last days; it
will live, and less need be said upon it in future. Numberless words need not be put upon paper to justify
what speaks for itself and shines in its clearness. Truth is straight, plain, clear, and stands out boldly in its
own defense; but it is not so with error. It is so winding and twisting that it needs a multitude of words to
explain it in its crooked form.”
Tract 11:12-13 “All present truth believers should now see the necessity of shunning every wind of
doctrine regardless how plausible or reasonable it might appear to be. Remember the words: "Behold,
those that go toward the North Country have quieted My Spirit in the north country." (See p. 27 of Tract
No. 2, The Warning Paradox, -- Zech. 6:1-8.) Get your doctrine, Brother, Sister, only from the golden
bowl (see The Shepherd's Rod, Vol. 2), and be not like the waves of the sea, driven with the wind and
tossed -- be not carried about by the many winds of doctrine that are blowing wildly from every direction
to cause you to lose your way to the everlasting kingdom.”
We hope none of us now shall neither doubt Elijah’s message, nor add anything to it, nor claim the office
of Elijah.
End of Lesson.