I will restore saith the Lord. (Joel 2:25)
In (Mal 4: 5-6) it says “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
We would endeavour to look at the above scripture, and identify and look at
1. Turn
2. Heart
Scripturally analysing the above verse in terms of TURN; Ezekiel states: Therefore, say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.( Ezekiel 14:6)
Also, St Luke states: And if he trespasses against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him (Luke 17:4)
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. (Acts 26:30)
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore, and repent. (Rev 3:19)
Turn literally means to change direction. The Bible associates “to turn” with “repentance”, meaning a turning away from your current state of belief and way of living to what the Word (Bible) commands.
The word “turn” is also associated with “to turn back”, “restore” or “to return” to an original state. The Hebrew word is “shuwb” meaning “to turn back” or “to return”.
John the Baptist who came in the the Spirit and Power of Elijah, preaching in the wilderness of Judea. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; t o make ready a people prepared for the Lord. ( Luke 1:17) The New Covenant that was to be brought by Christ would deal with the Heart of all individuals for the Word of God to be etched on it. Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, Yahweh will VAV( hook) His Word on to the Hearts of those whom he loved to reconcile them back to himself. The Heart of each of his saints is where Yahweh will reside because He is the Word. So John the Baptist came fulling part of what (Mathew 17:10 – 13)
The scriptures also state what the Heart is ;
We must love God with all our heart so that the word of God dwells in our heart. Without the heart pumping blood, no organ of the body can receive oxygen to continue its function. If the Word of God is in our heart it can be distributed to any part of the body to glorify His name. Moses first and foremost commandments to the children of Israel states:
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh ( Ezekiel 36:26 )
The heart describes spiritually the inward belief (faith), conviction, desires and determination of the inner man.
Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:( Mathew 15:17-19)
Therefore, if you only follow Christ as a rule and there is no inward conviction and desire to serve him with every fibre of your being, it is all in vain. Servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Not with eyeservice, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. (Ephesians 6:6)
If we note; in this verse word is singular “heart” and not “hearts” showing that this is something the fathers were sharing. There are many fathers but one HEART.
And I will give them one HEART and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony HEART out of their flesh, and will give them an HEART of flesh (Ezekiel 11:19)
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