[Giuseppe Nova]

What you said. I believe there are (many) people alive right now who will see Christ return. Things just "seem" to be pointing in that direction. Eschatology is a relatively new interest of mine, and I don't have a solid grasp of prophesied end times chronology yet. On the FR front there's a Freeper who has been periodically posting this relevant link (patburt.com) for years.

In response to your list of expectations, I will say that, in the past year or so, I've seen several references to a singular "End Times Elijah" character who some people are expecting on the scene to prepare the way for Christ's second advent; an end times answer to John the Baptist's role in Christ's first advent. John MacArthur's study notes for Malachi 4:5 make mention of this. The scripture says:

Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

Macarthur's notes read (in part):

"Most likely, this will be an Elijah-like person, as John the Baptist was Elijah-like...In that day, his task will be to preach reconciliation to God so that souls can believe and be spared God's curse. He will be effective. (v6)"

This guy has an entire youtube channel dedicated largely to the study of this potential figure. The contributor has gotten off track because of COVID recently. I can recommend his Elijah vids, however.

Anyway, we shall see what we shall see.

[WaltStuart]

Thanks for your great points.

Will check out patburt.com Thanks.

It is Biblical to expect “Elijah” to come in the end times—whatever that means remains to be seen. There’s plenty of opinions.

Have opened the youtube link. Thanks.

I have limited patience with MacArthur. He can have some good points on eschatology but his hostility to HolySpirit’s (Pentecostal/charismatic) active work in our era annoys me a lot.

But I don’t really want to get into that stuff in any argumentative way on this thread.