The Power of Children in the Last Times

Revelation 2:26, 17. There shall be fulfilled the saying of the Prophet Isaiah in chapter 41:25: "Behold! I have raised up one from the north, and he comes from the rising of the sun; he shall preach my name to them, and shall walk over the powerful as over mortar original: "Leimen", and shall tread the mire like a potter." And once again, in the 26th chapter of his prophecy, the Prophet testifies to the honor and power the believers shall have against the godless: "Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the faith may enter in. You, O God, keep us in constant peace according to a certain promise, for we rely on you. Therefore, rely on the LORD forever, for God the LORD is an everlasting rock. And He bows down those who dwell on high; the lofty city (the spiritual Babylon) He brings low, yes, He casts her to the earth, so that she lies in the dust, to be trodden underfoot—yes, by the feet of the poor and the heels of the lowly." Under such circumstances, the earth shall then be struck with the ban The "ban" (Bann) refers to a divine decree of destruction or being set apart for judgment., of which the Holy Revelation frequently reports: how God, in the fierceness of His wrath as the Lord of Hosts original Latin: "Dominus exercituum"—following the frequent repetitions of the Prophet Malachi—shall proceed to execution and harvest the earth, cutting off the grapes and throwing the nations who so love to wage war into the winepress of His vengeance, with the shedding of their blood, in the Valley of Jehoshaphat at Armageddon,

wishing that neither root nor branch, neither stock nor stem, shall remain of them. Then the fiery Law, which was given on Horeb, the Mountain of God Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai, where the Ten Commandments were given., and which men were exhorted by God to remember, shall enter into its full power. Then the staff is broken over them, and the חרם Hebrew: "Cherem," meaning a thing devoted to God for total destruction or a sacred ban. is drawn, and no more time remains to look after Babylon any longer. For the great and terrible day of the LORD has then come with power against the godless—as seen in the sixth seal and the seventh trumpet, which run parallel—and who may stand before Him? Revelation 6:17; 11:18.

§. 9. Here it seems to stand in opposition that in the New Testament, the saying of Malachi concerning the Prophet Elijah—and his conversion of the hearts of the fathers, which he shall turn to the children—is interpreted as referring to John the Baptist, and thus is already fulfilled, rather than being fulfilled in the remaining final time. Regarding this, one should know that the one is true and the other is not false; rather, the one must be as truly fulfilled in the great completion as the other was truly fulfilled in the commencement. At the time of John the Baptist, who was Elijah according to the declaration of Christ (Matthew 11:14), or who went forth in the spirit and power of Elijah according to the explanation of the Angel Gabriel (Luke 1:17), the saying of Malachi was fulfilled in its commencement. But in the final time, when the two Apocalyptic Witnesses The "two witnesses" from Revelation 11, often identified in historical theology as Elijah and Enoch (or Moses) returning to earth. and