Malachi 4:6 vs Matthew 10:35: did Jesus come to reconcile parents and children or the reverse? Malachi 4:6: He [Elijah] will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.
Matthew 10:35: For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Is Malachi 4:6 about someone other than Jesus Christ? Jesus taught to love your neighbor as yourself, as Malachi suggests, but why then does he say what he says in Matthew 10:35?
Matthew 10:37 goes on to say that if you do not love Jesus more than your brother, you are not worthy of Jesus, but he starts the section in verse 34 by saying &quot;Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.&quot;
This scripture in Malachi 4:5-6 refers to John the Baptist, not Jesus.

Luke 1:17 "And he [John the Baptist] will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous–to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." 

Matthew 11:14 "And if you are willing to accept what I [Jesus] say, he [John the Baptist] is Elijah, the one the prophets said would come."