Matthew 3:4

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

They answered him, “He was a hairy man, and wearing a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.

then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!” ’

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.”

It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

So I bought a belt according to Yahweh’s word, and put it on my waist.

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”

They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets.”

They answered, “ ‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.”

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter; for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”