“One of the Elohim came and “took on him the seed of Abraham”, that, doing away with types and shadows of religious service, he might give to the world all of the vital truth that it was possible for man to receive, and to establish a means by which the higher consciousness of the race can be kept in touch with, and under the direct control and instruction of Yahveh Elohim. Thus, so to speak, the leading strings with which to lead the race along regular lines of experimentation have been given to him, until the time comes when man has outgrown the knowledge that he is capable of receiving from the recorded teachings of the Christ of Nazareth; then the anointing Spirit of Elohim will again be manifested to the world in a personality that will be called Elijah; for Jesus said concerning Elijah, “Elijah truly shall first come and restore all things.”
Now mark you, he declared that Elijah should first come and restore all things, but he added in rather an equivocal way, “Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed”; they killed him (John the Baptist).
It is generally thought that he referred to the reincarnation of Elijah, that personality who lived in the time of the Kings and was a light and power to Israel; but God is no respecter of persons (personalities), and in the Eternal Brotherhood, the Elohim, man is named and identified not by his personal appearance, not by his incarnation in the physical body, not by his father and mother, but by his quality and sphere of use. “Elijah” means, Yahveh is my God, my Power.
The last declaration of the Old Testament reads as follows: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Yahveh; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Malachi 4:5-6.)
Mark you, this is the last declaration of the Old Testament Scriptures, where the promise is emphatic that before the closing of this dispensation, there will be a man or a body of men whose power will be wholly from Yahveh. In other words, he will become the embodiment and expression of Yahveh Elohim, and will – as Jesus said – “restore all things.” What things? That which has been lost; for in order to restore a thing it must have been taken away or lost.
Jesus came as the redeemer, to save man from the result of Adam’s sin (Isaiah 52:3), a redemption which is referred to in the fourteenth verse of the last chapter of the last book of the New Testament: “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”
This then, refers to man’s sin and fall and to his being driven out of Eden and from the tree of life, which, symbolically, was guarded by a flaming sword; and the restoration is to be through obedience to the commandments which he has broken, for disobedience was the cause of the fall, or the descent into matter. While this is, in a way, symbolism, yet it is more than symbolism; it is the quintessence, the epitome, of everything in the revelation that God gave to man, from the time of Adam down to the present period, and the accomplishing of the purpose that was declared in Genesis 1:26.
Therefore, when Elijah comes, he will be the “Elijah” because he has accepted the Everlasting Covenant, which opens with the words – as translated in King James Version – “I am the Lord your God”, the meaning of which in the Hebrew is, I will be your power, your strength; and then continues, “Thou shalt have no other God”, no other power; you shall trust in nothing but in my name, in me.
In other words, you shall surrender the animal self-will and merge it into the Eternal Will, Yahveh, the God of the universe, in order that you may become what it was designed that you should be, a “son of God”, the embodiment and expression of Yahveh, a member of the organized body of the Elohim; and then you will have become his image and his likeness. This will constitute the Elijah, that is coming to restore all things.
The restitution consists in bringing man into Divine Order, in the reorganizing of that Holy and Immortal Order, of all ages and worlds, that existed from all eternity and will exist to all eternity. And woe to the man or to the woman who attempts to organize that order, not having been prepared and “sent” of God to do that work!”
Hiram Butler
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 