About that time, I felt guided to look at Matthew 16:13-14, where Jesus asks, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”  “And they answered, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’”

Then I was directed to the very last verse of the very last book of the Old Testament.  Malachi 4:5 promises that Elijah, the prophet who was taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot, will return with God’s message, “Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah …”