Signs of the Times/Referring to our day, Jesus said:
"Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things, as the prophets
have written." (JST, Matthew 17:10.) No single ancient prophet, standing
alone, returned to restore all things. Angelic ministrants came from all of the
great dispensations of the past. This promised Elias is, in effect, all of the
angelic ministrants who have come in the latter days to restore truths and
powers and keys, all of the things that, taken together, compose "all
things." It was in this way that our dispensation became the dispensation
of the fulness of times, meaning the dispensation of the fulness of all dispensations
past. Someone came from each of these ancient dispensations to bring to us what
was had among mortals in his day. Hence these words of Jesus about Elias as
they are here explained. (Bruce R. McConkie, New Witness for the Articles of
Faith [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1993], 629)
Further Reading:
“Elias”
as a “forerunner” in LDS Scripture
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