So they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No!"

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!