He is the prophet of restoration.
He is bringing back something that once was, but has now come to the place, not only of decline or disuse, but that it had been violently rejected and thrown down.
He rebuilds and restores that very thing.
It is easier to find some loose stones and put them together for a first time than to take what once was and has now been totally rejected.
The work of restoration is greater than the work of inauguration.
It is easier to start from scratch than to go back and deal with the things that once were.
It is a monumental, backbreaking work. Elijah must first come and restore all things, and unless this word 'restore' is in our spirits, then we are not prophetic candidates.
We can know to some degree whether we have a prophetic calling by the disposition we have to restore the ancient ways and paths, the things that have fallen down or been knocked down and cast aside.
What is God intending that was at the first?
In the Beginning...
If we want to see something in its authentic configuration as God intended it, then we must see it in its first expression in the Scriptures.
That is why we are given the great patriarchal figures.
Abraham is the prototype, the father of faith.
The church in the book of Acts is how it was at the first, but no longer is.
The church now is increasingly the sum of traditions, denominations, sophistication, modern technology and methodologies, for example, bringing God down through 'worship'.
The whole thing invites being torn down, rooted up and plucked out and something restored that God has given from the first, namely, apostolic Christianity.
It has got to be at the end as authentic as it was at the beginning, when the glory of God was in the church, that men were afraid even to join themselves to it.

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Anyone who violated against the Spirit of Truth, was carried out feet first by the young men.
To restore that before the Lord comes is an epochal and gut wrenching task, because it is so easy to 'go along'.
A prophet has the vision for the original and a jealousy for the glory that attended it.
He cannot stomach any deviation, counterfeit or modern day equivalent.
He wants the glory of God that was at the first, and wants to see the authentic thing restored and knows that it is going to be such a labor to pick up those stones.
The prophet not only restores but he keeps and elevates the consciousness of the true thing before the people of God continually.
The false prophets did not know that they were false.
They actually expected that there was a God that would answer them.
The vilest form of apostasy is when the people who are apostate do not even recognize or see themselves as apostate, and think that they are fully in the faith.
That is the ultimate apostasy and we need to seriously ask whether we are already describing the condition to which the church has come, even in its best and most celebrated forms.
We are not just talking about the mainline churches like the charismatic and the Methodist, but are we are willing to consider those forms of the church that are the most charismatically celebrated in Christendom today?
The apostasy is even worse in those places because it is not even recognized as apostasy, and so much so, that when one comes to confront and challenge, then that one is called a 'troubler of Israel' and is shown the back door.
May God help you accomplish your divine destiny that has no limit because the anointing of heaven is upon you.
Do not allow your past to control your future, but let the hand of God lead you to the destiny He has for you, for God’s destiny is much greater and better than your problem.

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The prophetic man has somehow in the deepest corridors of his heart a little tremor of discomfort, that though everyone is shouting 'Amen' and 'hallelujah' and having a great time, there is something in his own heart that cannot say 'Yea' and 'Amen'.
It is not yet the authentic thing, though it purports to be and appears to be and uses all the right language appropriate to being it.
The prophet is so attuned to God, who Himself alone is authenticity, that when he comes into the presence of something that appears to be right and is not, then it registers upon his own soul.
How can such a man be found and formed in such a way?
It is the crying need of the church in this hour because the deception is far more extensive than we know.
Fire from Heaven:
Then he arranged the wood and cut the ox in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, "Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood."
And he said, "Do it a second time," and they did it a second time. And he said, "Do it a third time," and they did it a third time.
And the water flowed around the altar, and he also filled the trench with water.
Then it came about at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, " O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word.
Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that Thou, O LORD, art God, and that Thou hast turned their heart back again."

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