The name, or title, of “Elias” has
been used to refer to many individuals through the scriptures. The Lord committed
to “Elias” the key to of restoring all the things that the prophets spoke, from
the beginning of the last days [D&C 27:5} . . .
Elias
Many presume that this Elias [in
D&C 110] is the actual man who was named Elias, and is the first referenced
in the scriptures. We don’t know much about him except that he lived during the
time of Abraham, and he appeared in the Kirtland temple and restored keys to
Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery . . . It is curious to me that Elias came to
commit the keys of the gospel of Abraham. Apparently, the keys of the gospel of
Abraham weren’t held by Abraham, but by Elias. This is all we know via
canonized scripture. Perhaps Abraham was this Elias who was sent to commit the
keys of his gospel. Perhaps it was Noah sent as Elias, as it is believed that Noah’s
and Abraham’s lifetimes overlapped, and as the angel Gabriel (Noah) is
identified as Elias who appeared to Zacharias and Mary, the mother of Jesus. We
just don’t know at this time. . . .
Another Elias Will Come in the
Last Days
The holy scriptures testify that
Jesus Christ will come again in the last days to usher in the millennial
dispensation. Before he arrives, he will once again send an Elias before him to
prepare the way before him.
JST Matthew 17:13-14
13 But
I say unto you, Who is Elias? Behold, this is Elias, whom I send to prepare the
way before me.
14 Then
the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist, and
also of another who should come to restore all things, as it is written by the
prophets
Who is this Elias and why isn’t
anyone talking about him? We have yet to see an Elias in the last days that
will make bare the arm of the Lrod and will wield that spirit and power of
Elias as Elias’s of past dispensations have.
We have to see Elias stand before
the nations of the world and say “Repent . . . or else.” Then fight the battle
of the saints, and destroy the wicked by fire.
2 Ne 30:10
10
For the time speedily cometh that the Lord God shall cause a great division
among the people, and the wicked will he destroy; and he will spare his people,
yea, even if it so be that he must destroy the wicked by fire.
Given the enormity of the mission
placed on this last Elias, his works will eclipse the works of all Elias’s that
came before him.
The Lord said that there was “another
who should come and restore all things, as it is written by the prophets”.
This last Elias will be the Last Seer of the Last Days, to restore all things,
and he has been prophesied in our scriptures. His role to play prior to the
second coming of Jesus Christ will be monumental, but nobody is talking about
him. We find him among the verses of the standard works as he will live his life
before the Lord declares him to the world—hidden. (Gregory Stewart, The Last
Seer of the Last Days [2022], 1, 2, 10-11, comments in square brackets
added for clarification, emphasis in original)
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