Summary. Elijah (1-2 Kings) confronted King Ahab and the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind without dying. Jewish expectation looked for his literal return; in DP, John the Baptist is the figure who came “in the spirit and power of Elijah” (17) to prepare the way for Jesus. John’s later hesitation about Jesus’s messiahship is read as a critical providential failure.
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- dp-elijah-mission-incomplete-required-successor
- dp-growth-stage-returning-resurrection-of-old-testament-spirits
- dp-humans-rule-both-spirit-and-physical-worlds
- dp-jtb-denied-being-elijah-against-jesus-testimony
- dp-jtb-was-elijah-by-mission-not-soul-transmigration
- dp-reincarnation-is-misread-returning-resurrection