1(3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.
2But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
3You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
4Restoration through the Lord“Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey.
5Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD arrives.
6He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Malachi 4
We have here proper instructions given us (very proper to close the canon of the Old Testament with), I. Concerning the state of recompence and retribution that is before us, the misery of the wicked and the happiness of the righteous in that state, ver. 1-3. And this is represented to us under a prophecy of the…
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