There is a prophecy in the Holy Bible, specifically in Malachi, concerning the end of the world. The book of Malachi is part of the Old Testament. In case you still do not know by now, the entire books within the Holy Bible are written by Jewish authors. Luke our Beloved Physician is also a Jew. He was one of the Jews living on foreign land as a result of the scattering of the Holy People of Israel. So, the concept behind the Holy Bible is the salvation first of the Torah–observant Jewish people and later on, the redemption of all the nations and people on earth during the millennial rule of the Messiah of Israel.

“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, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” (Malachi 4:5-6).

The prophecy we should be concerned here in Malachi is the identities of both the ‘fathers’ and the ‘children.’ The Christian people, having no idea about the Jewish religion, interpret the fathers and the children literally. For instance, many of the shell-shocked erstwhile members of the Worldwide Church of God are saying Herbert W. Armstrong could not be Elijah the Prophet at all since his relation with his adulterous and fornicating son named Garner Ted is not that good.

Many Christian pastors and leaders today are interpreting the last two verses in Malachi in similar manner. It is the duty of the end-time Elijah the prophet to make the fathers love the children, or vice-versa, the children should get to know their fathers as well. Fathers love your children. Children love your fathers. Otherwise God shall come and destroy all of us in the year 2012.

If not this year of 2012, then perhaps next year maybe God shall curse and strike the land with a curse.

In Israel, the term ‘land’ refers only to the land of Canaan, the land of inheritance of the Jewish people. But there must be a reason why God made the bible translators of the King James Version used the word ‘earth’ instead. Anyway, the word earth is translated from the Hebrew word ‘eretz’ and there is only one ‘eretz’ on earth in biblical prophecy—the land of Israel.

The prophet Malachi, then, had written this. God said, I will come and strike the land of Israel with a curse if love could not be found between the fathers and the children. Many would agree that this prophecy speaks of an end-time Elijah the prophet as the catalyst that would trigger the fathers to love their children, and vice-versa. We can also interpret the two prophetic verses as foretelling Elijah the prophet shall come first, then a someone who is a ‘he’, a male pronoun would appear and teach the fathers to love their children and the children to love their fathers.

That male person, introduced by the male pronoun ‘he’ could none other be but the Promised Messiah of Israel.

It is not John the Baptist, or Herbert W. Armstrong, who would turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the children to their fathers. It is Jesus Christ, himself, who would be doing that.

Can we find a biblical support for this interpretation?

Did Jesus teach us to love our fathers?

(To be finish later ... Testing Videos of the Fathers ... )

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