It's all in how you read it...

Last meeting, I mentioned that the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament contain the same books, but the order is different. Here is the 'end of the book' accoridng to Hebrew scriptures:

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord, the God of Heaven, given to to me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people -- the Lordhis God be with him -- let him go up. - (Second) Chronicles 36.23

While everytime 'scriptures' are mentioned in the New Testament, they refer to Hebrew scriptures, when Chrstians establshed the book we call the Old Testament, they followed a different order. Here is the Christian ending to the story:

Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse. - Malachi 4.5-6

Same words, different emphasis.