In 1998 or 1999 I was told by celestial personnel that a Son of God would appear on earth in the not too distant future. At that time I received no indication whatsoever as to the identity of the forthcoming Son. In about November 2005 I was told that it is Elijah, the prophet of the Old Testament, who will appear.

     Who is this Elijah that he should suddenly be elevated to the position of World Ruler? Why would Jesus [Michael] send Elijah to earth? We are told in The Urantia Book that Elijah was a translated soul of brilliant spiritual achievement who lived after Melchizedek's 94-year sojourn on earth. He was one of two prophets who fused with his Thought Adjuster [Indwelling Spirit] while still in the flesh. [Enoch was the other prophet.] The fusion of a Thought Adjuster with a person during physical life instantly consumes the material body; the human beings who might witness such a spectacle would only observe the translating mortal disappear "in chariots of fire." [2Kings 2:11] [UB 45:4:13,15] [UB 93:2:1,2] [UB 110:7:2]

Elijah: Now a Son of God and Son of Man.
     Adjusters are equal partners of the human mind in fostering the evolution of the immortal soul of survival capacity that can fuse with a Thought Adjuster. Fusion by the Thought Adjuster with the soul of a mortal being is a momentous day in the existence of both the Thought Adjuster and the mortal. While we mortals are in nature evolving inward and upward from man to God, the Adjusters are in nature evolving outward and downward from God to man; and so will the final product of this union of divinity and humanity eternally be the Son of Man and the Son of God. [My emphasis] [UB 109:1:4,5]

The Hebrews During the Times of Elijah.
     In the tenth century before Christ the Hebrew nation became divided into two kingdoms. In both of these political divisions many truth teachers endeavored to stem the reactionary tide of spiritual decadence that had set in, and which continued disastrously after the war of separation. But the efforts to advance the Hebraic religion did not prosper until that determined and fearless warrior for righteousness, Elijah, began his teaching. Elijah restored to the northern kingdom a concept of God comparable with that held in the days of Samuel. Elijah had little opportunity to present an advanced concept of God; he was kept busy, as Samuel had been before him, overthrowing the altars of Baal and demolishing the idols of false gods. And he carried forward his reforms in the face of the opposition of an idolatrous monarch; his task was even more gigantic and difficult than that which Samuel had faced. [UB 97:Section 2. The following Section 3 provides additional information pertaining to the times of Elijah and Elisha.]
     To read the Biblical account of Elijah and his works see [1Kings:Chapters 17,18,19] and [2Kings:Chapters 1 and 2.]
     Elijah was blunt and direct in his assault upon the sins and vices of his contemporaries. [John the Baptist emulated Elijah's blunt and direct assault on the Roman rulers. Unfortunately, this blunt approach resulted in the beheading of John. (UB 135:4:4,5)]

     Said Malachi: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord . . . [Malachi 4:5]
     Elijah, when he appears, will proclaim that "the kingdom of God is at hand"--meaning a return to the high spiritual concept of Jesus, who proclaimed that the kingdom is the will of his heavenly Father dominant and transcendent in the heart of the believer. Elijah will revive the actual teachings of Jesus, such a restatement as will undo the work of the early Christians who created a sociophilosophical system of belief regarding the fact of Jesus' sojourn on earth. Within a short time the teaching of this story about Jesus nearly supplanted the preaching of Jesus' gospel of the kingdom.
     The kingdom as Jesus conceived it has to a large extent failed on earth; for the time being, an outward church has taken its place. The Gospel of Jesus has been largely replaced with the Gospel of Paul. Paul's gospel contains numerous incorrect teachings. If Elijah arrives before the Day of Armageddon, he may encounter much difficulty as he attempts to work with Christian religious leaders who will cling to their belief in the Bible as the infallible, complete, and final Word of God, not one iota of which is to be altered. I conjecture that the gospel of Jesus as Elijah will present it will be branded a false religion; Elijah may be condemned as a false prophet, even the Antichrist. [Revelation 19:20; 20:10] [UB 170:5:19,21]

     The following information is taken from the article "Elijah" in The New Unger's Bible Dictionary.
     The prophet Elijah came from Tishbeh in Gilead, a district that shared deeply in the miseries of the kingdom of the ten tribes. Nothing is known concerning his family or birth. [As explained in The Urantia Book, there were never more than three or four tribes.]
     Elijah's character is one of moral sublimity. His faith in God seemed to know no limit or questioning. His zeal for Jehovah was an all-absorbing motive of his life, so that he justly said, "I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts." No danger or duty was too severe to shake his confidence--no labor too great for his Lord. His courage was undaunted, even in the presence of royalty or famine. His obedience was as simple and unquestioning as a child's. Tender of soul, he could sympathize with the widow when she lost her child or weep over the sad condition of his deluded countrymen. He was stern in principle. In his opposition to sin, he was as fierce as the fire that more than once answered his command. [This statement must be read with a grain of salt.] He was by nature a recluse, only appearing before men to deliver his message from God and to enforce it by a miracle, and then disappearing from sight again.
     [Note: When reading about Elijah in the Bible, the reader should keep in mind that the Hebrews were wont to toss in the occasional miracle to enhance the story. It is very doubtful that Elijah performed the miracles ascribed to him.]

The following information is taken from the article "Elijah" in the Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible.
     An influential prophet, Elijah shaped the history of his day and dominated Hebrew thinking for centuries afterward. His prophetic activities emphasized the unconditional loyalty to God required of the nation of Israel. He was opposed to the accepted standards of his day when belief in many gods was normal. He appears in the role of God's instrument of judgment upon a wayward Israel because of the nation's widespread idolatry. He understood that the nation of Israel had a mission to preserve its religious system--the worship of the one true God--in a pure form without any mixture with idol worship.

     [Note: When Elijah arrives perhaps he will give us a detailed account of his life and teachings. Also, no doubt he can present a detailed history of the origins of the Bible and an explanation of how the numerous erroneous concepts arose and became known as the infallible, complete, and final Word of God.]

Will Elijah be infallible? Elijah and his Thought Adjuster are now one. Does this mean that Elijah will be infallible? If the two witnesses described in the Book of Revelation do appear, will Elijah be one of them? [The account of the two witnesses in the Book of Revelation obviously underwent some colorful embellishment.] [Revelation 11:1-14]
     According to a statement in The New Unger's Bible Dictionary, "The voice of early ecclesiastical tradition is almost unanimous in regarding Enoch and Elijah as the two witnesses." [Revelation 11:3 supposedly supports the belief that Elijah and Enoch are the two witnesses: And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days (three and one-half years), clothed in sackcloth.]

The Tree of Life.
     Caligastia and his Staff of One Hundred arrived from Jerusem about 500,000 years ago. When the bodies of the One Hundred were rematerialized, they were provided with literal bodies consisting of flesh and blood but also attuned to the life circuits of the system. With the aid of the fruit of the Tree of Life, they were enabled to live on indefinitely as long as they had access to its fruit. [UB 66:0:1] [UB 66:4:12,13]
     When Adam and Eve arrived about 38,000 years ago, they were provided with bodies similar to those of the One Hundred. Like the One Hundred, they were dependent on the fruit of the Tree of Life if they were to live on indefinitely in defiance of death. [UB 73:6:] [UB 74:0]
     The Tree of Life is a shrub of Edentia which was sent to earth by the Most Highs at the time of Caligastia's arrival. [UB 66:4:13]
     It seems likely that Elijah will be given a specially constructed body like that of the members of the One Hundred and Adam and Eve. If so, he will need the fruit of the Tree of Life to enable him to live on indefinitely, century after century.