I'm tired and this reincarnation post is just as bad as Nirvana!
Kikyo you wrote:Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord."
(Malachi 4:5)
And Jesus said:And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
John the Baptist came with the Spirit of Elijah but he is not elijah himself, get it? The Pharisees did not recognize him just as they did not realize that Jesus was the Messiah and God incarnate.
It is also written in Malachi 4:5 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
John the Baptist came with the spirit of elijah but was not elijah himself, it is written:And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Malachi 4:5 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
This could correspond to Revelation 11:3-6 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Elijah had shut up the heavens by the Power of God, it is written: Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. James 5:17
To say that what you had stated is reincarnation, elijah would have came back as a bird or a bug.
Kikyo, what you might believe to be true is nothing more than man made doctrine which stems from demons. There is no reincarnation, but there is Eternal Life which can be found and obtained by the precious blood of Christ!
John 17:1-3 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent