“I Come and Smite the Earth with a Curse”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

It is written in everyone’s Bible—whether Jewish or Christian—that Elijah the prophet would return before the coming of the Lord. Though many people, especially observant Jews, still maintain expectant tradition of his coming and even prepare a place setting for him at the annual Passover service, the Latter-day Saints are the only people in the world who believe he has actually come, just as prophesied. But Elijah came not to a Jewish home or synagogue but to the house of the Lord in Kirtland, Ohio, on 3 April 1836, the very occasion of the Passover celebration that year.74

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

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