Mal. 4:5-6:
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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.

Luke 1:17:
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

All this time, God was dealing with my heart.   I was praying and reading Malachi 4 when I received a revelation that John the Baptist was to fulfill only a part of these verses.   I saw that the prophecy by the Angel to Zachariah about John the Baptist in Luke 1:17 only includes half of the commission of Elijah.   I was just ten years old when I told my granny that the spirit of Elijah was to return in the end-time.   She wasn't so sure about it.   "Now son, don't get too smart on me.  It seems to me that John the Baptist must have fulfilled all of that."

Well, I just knew it was God, and I started preaching it everywhere.   I said, "If I understand this correctly, all of this wasn't fulfilled by John the Baptist.  John certainly turned the hearts of the old Jewish Fathers to the joy of the Pentecostal children by preparing the way for the Messiah, such that a remnant of those from His generation were able to see the way that God was opening for them.   If the spirit of Elijah is what it took in John’s day, there has to be another visitation of that same spirit of Elijah to fulfill the last part of this verse, to turn the hearts of these modern church children back to the faith of the old apostolic Pentecostal Fathers, back to the original faith of the early Apostles, and I am going to look for it.”

I went to hear many ministers.   I was seeking a man who had that same power and boldness that Elijah had.   I don't mean any harm, but one of these brothers was getting the idea he was Elijah. When I heard it, I got my granny to go with me to hear him.   He came out in a black cape.   He had a stick in his hand.   He shook that stick and proclaimed that he was Elijah.   He was a gifted man.   We were acquainted with him, but I hadn't seen him in years.   There was a chair draped in black, and he called that "Elijah's Chair".   The cape was Elijah's mantle, and a black brother came out ahead of him, sweeping the steps before he walked on them.

I was only ten or eleven years old.   He declared that God had told him that whoever touches this chair will be killed.   Well, I didn't believe that and said, "Granny, the nerve of that man to say something like that."

"Hush, child, don't say that.   I know he is not right, but he used to be anointed."

I said, "Granny, I'm not going to let these people be fooled into thinking that if they touch that chair they'll die.   I'm going to go and sit in that chair."

My granny said, "No, you're not."

"Yes ma'am, I'm going."

By that time, I was halfway down the aisle.   While he was praying for people on the other side, I just walked right up those "holy steps" and sat down on that black throne.   I stretched my legs out like that, proving to the whole congregation that what he had said was a lie.   He covered it up by falling on his knees, praying for mercy for me.   I knew that he wasn't working in the spirit of Elijah.

There were many more that made their claim that the Elijah spirit was falling on them.

Finally, my granny said, "Son, when are you going to realize that this has already happened? Maybe John the Baptist fulfilled all of that Scripture."

Years went by, and I never mentioned it any more.   I was discouraged.   I went to every tent revival I could go to.   "We've got to go, Granny.   This may be the one.”

"Well, what are you going to do when you find him?"

"I'm going to listen to what he has to say.   The return of that Prophetic spirit will signal the end-time revival and the calling out of the Bride.”

"Son, are you sure?"

"Granny, whenever I find him, I am going to listen to what the Holy Ghost is saying through him.   He should have revelation concerning what God desires to do with and for His people in the final revival."   I was looking...searching.