234 The Legends of the Jews
The last words of his elegy will be : " Now peace will come upon earth ! " When the evil-doers hear this message, they will rejoice. On the second day, he will appear again and proclaim : " Good will come upon earth ! " And on the third his promise will be heard : " Salvation will come upon earth." m Then Michael will blow the trumpet, and once more Elijah will make his appearance, this time to introduce the Messiah."* To make sure of the identity of the Mes- siah, the Jews will demand that he perform the miracle of resurrection before their eyes, reviving such of the dead as they had known personally."* But the Messiah will do the following seven wonders: He will bring Moses and the generation of the desert to life ; Korah and his band he will raise from out of the earth ; he will revive the Ephraimitic Messiah, who was slain ; he will show the three holy vessels of the Temple, the Ark, the flask of manna, and the cruse of sacred oil, all three of which disappeared mysteriously; he will wave the sceptre given him by God ; he will grind the mountains of the Holy Land into powder like straw, and he will reveal the secret of redemption. Then the Jews will be- lieve that Elijah is the Elijah promised to them, and the Messiah introduced by him is the true Messiah."4
The Messiah"5 will have Elijah blow the trumpet, and, at the first sound, the primal light, which shone before the week of the Creation, will reappear ; at the second sound the dead will arise, and with the swiftness of wind assemble around the Messiah from all corners of the earth; at the third sound, the Shekinah will become visible to all ; the mountains will be razed at the fourth sound, and the Temple will stand in complete perfection as Ezekiel described it."*
