You believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. While living in Europe you are waiting for the prophet Elijah, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. One day you hear that Elijah is in Jerusalem and you begin to look up because you realize the time is nigh at hand. You have prepared for the Lord, yet realize that many have not. Thus you wonder about what Malachi wrote "...lest I come and smite the earth with a curse..."