Malachi · 6 verses
Malachi 4
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A winged sun rises over a future in which the wicked become ashes and calves come springing from their stalls: apocalypse with livestock choreography.
The day of fire and the winged sunvv. 1–3
The coming day burns like a furnace, and the arrogant and evildoers are reduced to stubble, with neither root nor branch left. But those who fear the LORD’s name meet a very different dawn: the sun of righteousness rises with healing in its wings, and they go out leaping like calves released from a stall. The wicked, meanwhile, become ashes beneath their feet—a remarkably thorough rearrangement of the landscape.
Moses remembered, Elijah sentvv. 4–6
The word then turns from the coming day to what must be remembered: the law of Moses, with its statutes and ordinances, commanded for all Israel at Horeb. Before the great and awesome Day of the LORD, Elijah the prophet will be sent. His work is wonderfully domestic: fathers’ hearts turned towards their children, and children’s hearts towards their fathers. Otherwise, the land faces a curse.
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Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
Mal 4:3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Mal 4:4“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
Mal 4:6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
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Where this is echoed
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- 2Jeremiah 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- 2Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- 6Luke 1:16–17Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God.
- 2Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
- 2Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
- 2John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- 2Isaiah 53:5But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
- 5Luke 1:17And he 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.”
- 12 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
- 22 Samuel 23:4is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- 2Malachi 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
- 5Matthew 17:10–13The disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
- 5Mark 9:11–13And they asked Jesus, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
- 12 Peter 3:7And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- 5Matthew 11:13–14For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
- 22 Peter 1:19We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
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