Spoke 17: 1Kings 17 and Malachi 3
Elijah was known in Malachi and the New Testament times to turn the hearts of the father to the children and the children to their fathers. John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah/Elias and fulfilled his role. However Elijah will return in the future to fulfill his calling once again.
[Malachi 4:6 KJV]
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.
[Luke 1:17 KJV]
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
There appears to be a slight to strong kinship between the meanings of the four root forms שוב (shub), ישב (yashab), שבת (shabbat) and שבה (shaba). And their forms are so adjacent that the effects of conjugation and grammatical constructions sometimes obscure the exact origin of derived words or names. Roots and meanings of words in narrative text can usually be estimated by their contexts, but even when these are clear, the interpreter should always keep an eye on the other roots and keep an open mind for alternative translations.
http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Tishbite.html#.W7_Nepd95uM
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Malachi is asking who will be able to stand when God appears. Elijah says he is standing before God:
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It seems like the widow of Zarephath was oppressed that because of the lack of rain she and her son only had enough to eat. But Elijah being a Levite (from Tishbeh a Levitical suburb in Ramoth Gilead) asks his portion first.
1Chronicles 6
80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
As a result the bread was multiplied because they ate many days:
Also the name Zarephath means to refine and in Malachi 3:2-3 the LORD's messenger wiil come and refine the sons of Levi.
Elijah was known in Malachi and the New Testament times to turn the hearts of the father to the children and the children to their fathers. John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah/Elias and fulfilled his role. However Elijah will return in the future to fulfill his calling once again.
[Malachi 4:6 KJV]
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.
[Luke 1:17 KJV]
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
How was it interpreted that Elijah was meant to fulfill this role? Could it be that the city where he came from, Tishbeh, comes from the word repent/return (shub)? It certainly is close to the next Hebrew word in the phrase Towshab.
שוב ישב שבת שבה
There appears to be a slight to strong kinship between the meanings of the four root forms שוב (shub), ישב (yashab), שבת (shabbat) and שבה (shaba). And their forms are so adjacent that the effects of conjugation and grammatical constructions sometimes obscure the exact origin of derived words or names. Roots and meanings of words in narrative text can usually be estimated by their contexts, but even when these are clear, the interpreter should always keep an eye on the other roots and keep an open mind for alternative translations.
http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Tishbite.html#.W7_Nepd95uM
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Malachi is asking who will be able to stand when God appears. Elijah says he is standing before God:
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It seems like the widow of Zarephath was oppressed that because of the lack of rain she and her son only had enough to eat. But Elijah being a Levite (from Tishbeh a Levitical suburb in Ramoth Gilead) asks his portion first.
1Chronicles 6
80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
As a result the bread was multiplied because they ate many days:
Malachi 3 - Listen
5
And I will come near
to you to judgment;
and I will be a swift
witness
against the sorcerers,
and against the adulterers,
and against false
swearers,
and against those that oppress
the hireling
in his wages,
the widow,
and the fatherless,
and that turn aside
the stranger
from his right, and fear
not me, saith
the LORD
of hosts.
Also the name Zarephath means to refine and in Malachi 3:2-3 the LORD's messenger wiil come and refine the sons of Levi.
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