“I Will Send You Elijah the Prophet”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

It is appropriate that Moses and Elijah, the two who epitomize the law and the prophets, should be mentioned together in the final verses of the Old Testament record. These two outstanding messengers of God operated in three different dispensations: as mortals, as translated beings (in Jesus’ day on the Mount of Transfiguration), and as resurrected beings (in Joseph Smith’s day in the Kirtland Temple). Moses restored in the meridian of time, and again in the fulness of times, the keys of the gathering of Israel; Elijah restored in both dispensations the keys of the sealing power—Moses’ keys for gathering the living to Christ and Elijah’s keys for gathering the dead to Christ. That takes care of everyone.

Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon: Vol. 2

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