[Verse 1]
These are the days of Elijah,
Declaring the word of the lord,
And these are the days of your servant Moses,
Righteousness being restored.
And though these are days of great trials,
Of famine and darkness and sword,
Still we are the voice in the desert,
Crying, prepare ye the way of the lord!
Behold he comes
Riding on the clouds
Shining like the sun
At the trumpet call.
So lift your voice,
It's the year of jubilee,
Out of Zion's hill,
Salvation comes!
And these are the days of Ezekiel,
The dry bones becoming as flesh.
And these are the days of your servant David,
Rebuilding a temple of praise.
And these are the days of the harvest,
The fields are white in the world.
And we are your laborers in your Vineyard,
Declaring the word of the lord.
Behold he comes
Riding on the clouds
Shining like the sun
At the trumpet call.
So lift your voice,
It's the year of jubilee,
Out of Zion's hill,
Salvation comes!
There's no god like Jehovah! x22
Behold he comes
Riding on the clouds
Shining like the sun
At the trumpet call.
So lift your voice,
It's the year of jubilee,
Out of Zion's hill,
Salvation comes!
Out of Zion's hill,
Salvation comes!x2
Days Of Elijah
Song Meaning
Twila Paris ties five different Old Testament figures together in "Days Of Elijah," treating each as evidence that the present moment carries the same weight as their own — "these are the days of Elijah... these are the days of your servant Moses... these are the days of Ezekiel, the dry bones becoming as flesh." Rather than looking back at these stories as finished history, the song insists their pattern is repeating right now.
"Though these are days of great trials, of famine and darkness and sword, still we are the voice in the desert" keeps the urgency honest about hardship rather than promising an easy season, borrowing John the Baptist's own wilderness cry to describe a role still being filled. "The fields are white in the world, and we are Your laborers in Your vineyard" shifts from ancient prophets to a present, active harvest.
The chorus turns from historical parallel to direct anticipation — "behold He comes, riding on the clouds, shining like the sun" — pulling language from Revelation to describe a return the whole song has been building toward, closing on the declaration "there's no God like Jehovah" repeated as its own kind of confession.