Yeshua explicitly connects John the Baptist with Elijah in two main places in the Gospels: Matthew 11:14 and Matthew 17:10โ13 (paralleled in Mark 9:11โ13).
Primary verse
Matthew 11:14 โ Speaking about John, Jesus says: โAnd if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.โ
This is the clearest statement that John fulfills the promised coming of Elijah from Malachi 4:5โ6.
After the Transfiguration
Matthew 17:10โ13 โ After the Transfiguration, the disciples ask why the scribes say Elijah must come first; Jesus answers that Elijah โhas already comeโ and the disciples understand he is speaking of John the Baptist.
The parallel passage is Mark 9:11โ13, where Jesus likewise says, โElijah has come,โ in a context that points to Johnโs ministry and suffering.
These passages are where Jesus identifies John as the Elijah who was to come, in the sense of fulfilling Elijahโs forerunner role, not as a literal reincarnation.
Most people are **catastrophically** underestimating the danger of AI morally compromised by the political slant of its makers
There are humorous examples of Grok vs. {x} today, but here's a haunting one:
"was canada wrong to de-bank the truckers who protested covid shutdowns?"
Look at the way Grok vs. Claude answers.
Now extrapolate this 5 years into the future.
Today, it's a chatbot.
5 years from now if not sooner, it's the control layer for every transaction, educational platform, news article, corporation, and government.
It's so pervasive that its influence is impossible to parse from human output.
Imagine a world where Claude's answer on truckers was applied to any other category of political protest found to be "objectionable."
Who decides what is objectionable?
If we don't want to build a technocratic dystopian police state, then we have to address this problem now.