Malachi 4
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The Coming Day of Judgment
1 # 4:1 Verses 4:1-6 are numbered 3:19-24 in Hebrew text. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all.
2“But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.#4:2 Or the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture. 3On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
4“Remember to obey the Law of Moses, my servant—all the decrees and regulations that I gave him on Mount Sinai#4:4 Hebrew Horeb, another name for Sinai. for all Israel.
5“Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives. 6His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
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Malachi 4
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1 # 4.1 Ch 4.1-6 are Ch 3.19-24 in the Hebrew “For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall. 3And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
4“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
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Mt 17.11; Mk 9.12. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. 6#Lk 1.17. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse.”#4.6 Or ban of utter destruction
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