Hearts of the Children to the Fathers?
Mike,
Reading in Malachi chapter four referring to the day of the Lord, we read that “Elijah” would turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers. Dysfunctional families have become a staggering problem. Society is overall a reflection of the family. It is a composite of all that is transpiring in the family. And our leaders (the “fathers”) lead society in a manner reflective of their family of origin. The citizens(the “children”) respond accordingly. Somehow a sense of true family values has to be engendered in society. I don’t know precisely what the Lord has in mind. But a dialogue in society at large has to begin to focus on true family values. And that analogy applies to churches. Leaders have to nurture that family concept, rather than the arrogance that typifies so much of ‘churchianity.’ Pride is also an issue we all have to address: God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
Again no judgments implied. Just observations.In Christ,
A____
Hi A____,
You mention Mal 4 and turning the hearts of the children to the fathers and the hearts of the fathers to the children during “the day of the Lord”. This certainly is not the time that God is outwardly “turning the hearts of the children to the fathers” because Christ plainly tells us that at this time, He has given them eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear… the mysteries of the kingdom of God… lest He should heal and convert the multitudes who come to Him. That is all found in Mat 13, as I suspect you know.
But that is happening both physically and “in the spirit”, within God’s elect at this time, which ‘time’ is “the Lord’s day” or “the day of the Lord” of Rev 1.
Mat 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Mat 13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Mat 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Mat 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Mat 13:17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
After the “little season” which immediately follows the millennium, and the worldwide deception of that time, God will, through a thing call a “lake of fire”, “turn the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children”, and “all in Adam will be made alive”.
Your brother in Christ,
Mike
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