Message from Elias (Elijah of the Old Testament). Published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 215.
“I come to write a message on the veracity of the Bible, and specifically the portion which has to do with the times I was supposed to have lived. My entrance on the scene of Jewish life was very abrupt, and little was written about my antecedent life, except that I was a Tishbite who lived in that protion of Palestine where the activities of the people and prophets of the Hebrew race are seldom refered to. When I came into notice, it was as if I had come out of the unknown, where God had taken special pains to instruct me in the truths of His laws. But a great deal of the account of my appearing, and of the things that I declared and did, is fictional.
“I was a real person of the prophet class, and I warned the kings and rulers of the wrath of God that was impending upon them, and of the evils in their manner of living. Sometimes these kings heeded my warnings and sometimes they did not; and some of the consequences were suffered by them, similar to that described in the Bible.
“I never claimed to have direct communication with God, or to deliver any message He had directed to me to deliver by His own word, or that I had ever seen God, or knew who or what He was.
“I lived a rather secluded life and was versed in the teachings and beliefs of the Israelites, as they were known at that time. I was also given to much meditation and prayer, and possessed a religious nature to such a degree that I understood that the thoughts and perceptions of truth that came to me were actually messages from the unseen world. And possessing a knowledge of the moral truths, as declared in the Decalogue and as taught by the priests of the temple, I could readily discern the acts and doings of the kings, and of the people as well, which were in violation of these moral truths. I appeared to these rulers and people, and denounced their acts and doings, and warned them of the wrath of God unless they ceased their acts of disobedience and returned to the worship of the one true God that the Hebrew race distinctly declared and worshipped.
To be continued…