Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah (1Ki 17:1; Mt. 11:14; 16:14) to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction .” Mal. 4:5–6   See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you So there's this reference throughout the New Testament about this day .  now this day of revelation of Christ, we're going to see that phrase in Luke's gospel and we're going to see it in Matthew's Gospel too, and it's synonymous with what Jesus told the disciples there in Matt. 16:27–28. It's the Son of Man, coming in the glory of his Father and with his angels to render vengeance unto everyone. now with that in mind,  that day we know is the day of the Lord , because we know from reading Malachi, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the ...

 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”  Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!”  So the rumor spread in the community that this disciple would not die . Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but , “If it is my will that he remain until I come , what is that to you?” John 21:18–23  His la...

Cloud–Rider tells his story: Psalm 30:8 they stood up and cast scorn upon me, (“treat as a light thing, mock, curse”) they arose and spat upon me in the assembly of the sons of the gods; (Psa. 29:1, 82:1, Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7) was set upon my table, mockery in the cup from which I drink.  William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, The Context of Scripture (Leiden;  New York: Brill, 1997–), 258. For Thou, O God, didst widen my heart,                but they straiten it with affliction                and hedge me about with darkness.            I eat the bread of wailing                and drink unceasing tears;            truly, my eyes are dimmed by grief,                and my soul by daily bitterness.            [Groaning] and sorrow ...