Message #46186

[FervorForFaith]

Mat 17:10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Mat 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
Mat 17:12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
Mat 17:13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

You're half right.

Matthew 11:13-14  For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.

John the Baptist was Elijah only if the children of Israel received it ("it" being the kingdom). They did not. They killed their Messiah, Jesus, and persecuted His disciples. So Elijah must come again (as one of the two witnesses) to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, etc. DURING the tribulation/TOJT.

which jusgment are we talking about here?

Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

This judgment.