The Fingerprint of Elijah

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The Fingerprint of Elijah

A Look at the Life of Elijah

and

The Spirit of Elijah

as Found in the Scriptures

By Roger Carter


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Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before

the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

Mal 4:6 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.

So lets ask ourself, how did Elijah do this in the Old

Testament and how did the spirit of Elijah do this in the

New Testament? These are questions we want to ask

ourselves. Especially when we have people claiming to be

speaking in the spirit of Elijah. So let us now look at

how Elijah did this and lets see what King Ahab thought

about Elijah.

I Kings 18:15-18

And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before

whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and

Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 And it came to pass, when

Ahab saw Elijah, thatAhab said unto him, Art thou he

that troubleth Israel? 18 And he (Elijah) answered, I

have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy fathers house,

in that ye haveforsaken the commandments of theLORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

So you see? Ahab had been persuaded by Jezebel his wife

(she was the daughter of Ethbaal King of the Zidonians)

to hunt down and kill all the prophets of God. Ahab then

replaced Gods levitical priests with more universal,Baalim friendly priests. The children of Israel at this


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time were replacing the worship of Elohim who brought

them out of Egypt with the worship of Baal. Then Ahab

has the gaul to accuse Elijah of troubling Israel!! So next

we see how Elijah turned the hearts of the fathers unto

the hearts of the children and the hearts of the children

to their fathers. This was not done in a warm and fuzzy

manner. Ahab's soldiers had already killed all the other

prophets of God. Yet Elijah was unmoving. We see what

Elijah says next.

I Kings 18:19-21 Now therefore send, and gather to me allIsrael unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four

hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four

hundred, which eat at Jezebels table. 20 So Ahab sent

unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets

together unto mount Carmel. 21 And Elijah came unto all

the people, and said,How long halt ye between twoopinions?if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal,

then follow him. And the people answered him not a

word.

They could not answer him, for they were raised

worshipping the true God, but had backsliden andforgotten the commandments of God. By ignoring the

doctrine that was handed down to them. The Pope, Tony

Palmer, Kenneth Copeland and virtually all protestant

churches now want to do the same exact thing. Turning

back to the traditions and experience based worship

(example: kundalini, meditation, mysticism/divination,

spiritual formation and experience thought concepts)

and ignoring the doctrinal divides between them all,


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turning back into the fold of the Vatican, the mother of

harlots in Revelation 17, modern Babylon also known as

the King of the North in the book of Daniel and the Beast

of Revelation 13.1. In essence they are doing the same

exact thing as the priests of Baal did back then. Baal did

not prevent the worship of other gods, most pagan

religions didn't, it was viewed as light from another angle

so to speak. Elohym forbids this and so did Jesus. Elijah

literally calls them all out. Lets see what he says here.

22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remaina prophet of the LORD; but Baals prophets are four

hundred and fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two

bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves,

and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire

under: andI will dress the other bullock, and lay it

on wood, and put no fire under: 24 And call ye on thename of your gods, andI will call on the name of the

LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be

God. And all the people answered and said,It is well

spoken.25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal,

Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first;

for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, butput no fire under. 26 And they took the bullock which was

given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of

Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear

us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And

they leaped upon the altar which was made. 27 And it

came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said,Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is


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pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he

sleepeth, and must be awaked. 28 And they cried aloud,

and cut themselves after their manner with knives and

lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And itcame to pass, when midday was past, and they

prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening

sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to

answer, nor any that regarded.

So what did Elijah challenge here exactly, he pointed out

their division in order to bring the children of Israel back

into the worship of God, he did NOT see Baalim worship

as another light. Ahab, Jezebel and the priests of Baal

had murdered the prophets of God and replaced them,

you see while the children of Israel had backsliden Ahab

had promoted that backsliding and even facilitated it and

then as we saw when he met with Elijah he accusedElijah of troubling the children of Israel!!! Are you

kidding me! This is the same thing being done now, the

Christian world is being blended together, and brought

back into the fold of the Vatican, so are all the other

religions in an attempt to bring all faiths together,

replacing the Word of the LORD with Tradition anddoctrines that run contrary to what any of the prophets

or Jesus taught. Just as Ahab accused Elijah, Tony

Palmer accuses any who hold to the Biblically prophetic

truth that was provided by Christ Jesus no less, as

spiritually racist (I will address that at the end) I

digress. We see exactly what Elijah did next.

And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me.


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And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired

the altar of the LORD that was broken down. 31 And

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the

tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of theLORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: 32 And

with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD:

and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would

contain two measures of seed. 33 And he put the wood in

order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the

wood, and said (Elijah), Fill four barrels with water, and

pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. 34And

he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the

second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And

they did it the third time. 35And the water ran round

about the altar; and he filled the trench also with

water.36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering

of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came

near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of

Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel,

and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these

things at thy word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that

this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and

that thou hast turned their heart back again. 38Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt

sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and

licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 And when

all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they

said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the

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So we see Elijah did not say well ok so you want to

worship Baal too thats ok I am sure there are some

positive things we can learn from it as well. NO! He did

not! He did quite the opposite. So next lets take a little

look at John the Baptist, as the LORD prophesied his

birth as well through Malachi. How did John the Baptist

turn the hearts of the fathers to the hearts of the

children, lets take a closer look.

Matt 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching

in the wilderness of Judaea,Matt 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of

heaven is at hand.

Matt 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet

Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make his paths straight.

How did John do this?

Matt 14:3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound

him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother

Philips wife.

Matt 14:4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful forthee to have her.

John pointed out Herod and Herodias's sin. He also

pointed out the sins of the Pharisees and Scribes of his

day just as Jesus had. He even went so far as to call them

a generation of vipers. Just as Jesus stated to the scribes

and Pharisees of his day. We know what the reaction was

too, Herod beheaded John and Jesus was crucified.


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Matthew 3:7-10

7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadduceescome to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of

vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to

come?

8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

9And think not to say within yourselves, We have

Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is

able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

10And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees:

therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is

hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,

hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against

men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them

that are entering to go in.

Far from bringing people to salvation, he stated they

werepreventingpeople from being saved. I mean thats

not warm and fuzzy. We can also see what the LORDprophesied to Ezekiel concerning the shepherds (levitical

priests, pharisees etc. [the preachers, priests, popes etc.

of Ezekiel's day]).

9Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

10Thus saith the LORD GOD; Behold, I am against theshepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and


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cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall

the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver

my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for

them.11 For thus saith the LORD GOD; Behold, I, even I,

will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

The LORD says this in more than one place in the book of

Ezekiel and quite explicitly as a matter of fact. So why

exactly did HE fire the shepherds from their job? Lets

look closer. Further down in verses 19 the LORD speaks

this concerning the shepherds.

19 And as for my flock, they eat that whichye have

trodden withyourfeet; and they drink that which ye

have fouled withyourfeet.

The LORD is speaking specifically about Doctrine

here, not literal food and drink. That which the religious

leaders of today want you to forget and sweep under the

rug. The religious leaders were feeding GOD's flock with

polluted doctrine that had already been trodden down

and fouled with their feet meaning it was changed,discarded, altered, used and unused or more often than

anything used out of context to suit their own needs and

desires.

Does this sound familiar? It should. If anybody claims

to speak in the spirit of Elijah but does not follow his

typological pattern and yet in fact does the opposite, they

are in fact not speaking in the spirit of Elijah and there is


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no light in them.

So then what is spiritual racism? Is it even a plausible

term? I think not, it is purely a nonsensical term

designed to generate blame, worry, fear or apprehension.

More importantly it is a veiled threat meant to slip past

the majority of the flock, in the hopes it is adopted blindly

. The term seeks to cloak itself in tolarance while

displaying intolarance for true, sound biblical eschatology

or any other area of grounded biblical study. So as this is

a new term it deserves a little study.

Firstly the two words in an of themselves arediametrically opposed and cannot present any clear

observation of any religious doctrine or stance. When the

LORDS people have been taught Beloved, be ye not

carnally minded and what have the righteous to do with

the unrighteous?. Next its impossible to declare someone

of being a spiritual racist without revealing oneself as abigot, as the term in an of itself is nothing but

inflamatory, and a lowbrow term at best to set a

groundwork for the ability to point the finger and/or

accuse a minority group that does not believe the same as

you.

In other words the minute that comes out of anyones

mouth they shoot themselves in the foot cognitively

speaking. Its inevitable, for you see if someone takes the

term spiritual racist and applies it in the context of its

definition, then Elijah himself would have fit the bill of a

spiritual racist for calling out all the priests of Baal!!! So

do those that would use that term and claim to be

Christian believe that about Elijah!? I would hope not butthere is definitively no way for anyone who uses that


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term or other terms like it, to cognitively reason

themselves out of a hardpacked corner of Intolerance. In

other words the mere use or intentional cognitive

awakening of such a term shows the person or group to

be intolerant and inescapably in detraction. In this state

one actually accuses others of being what they actually

are. Now does this mean we as true believers should not

pray for them? Certainly not we should indeed pray for

them but not in their manner or for their reasons.

We should pray that their eyes may be opened, and

they might see their errors and repent for their deeds asshepherds presenting meat and wine that has been

trodden down and foul, and not in accordance with the

Ten Commandments, the faith of Jesus or his teachings.

Jesus taught from the Law and the Prophets his

doctrine consisted of the two main things they wish to

disgard. This is dangerous; not for the LORDS truebelievers, but for the shepherds, for in the eyes of GOD,

their own blood will not only be on their head, but also

the blood of those deceived by them.

Seek the narrow road to life eternal, for broad is the

road to eternal death.

Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here

are they that keep the commandments of God, and the

faith of Jesus.

Just as a rainbow has many colors, GODS people have

many colors and hence it is impossible for them to beracist in any sense of the term.


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