Malachi 4:1

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Malachi 4:1

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Summary

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

The day

Shall burn

2 Thessalonians 1:8

And all the

That it

Job 18:16

Amos 2:9

General references

Acts 2:19

Bible References

The day

“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

Blow a trumpet in Zion,

And sound an alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
For the day of the Lord is coming;
Surely it is near,

Near is the great day of the Lord,
Near and coming very quickly;
Listen, the day of the Lord!

In it the warrior cries out bitterly.

Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.

But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Shall burn

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;
The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,
And fire will devour them.

Mountains quake because of Him
And the hills dissolve;
Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence,
The world and all the inhabitants in it.

Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to deliver them
On the day of the Lord’s wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured
In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

And all the

So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and escape.’”

“And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;

You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning
Against everyone who is proud and lofty
And against everyone who is lifted up,
That he may be abased.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Scarcely have they been planted,

Scarcely have they been sown,

Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,

But He merely blows on them, and they wither,
And the storm carries them away like stubble.

“Who has aroused one from the east
Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet?
He delivers up nations before him
And subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

“Behold, they have become like stubble,

Fire burns them;

They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be no coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!

“Then the house of Jacob will be a fire
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau will be as stubble.
And they will set them on fire and consume them,
So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.

Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.

That it

“His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.

“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,

Though his height was like the height of cedars

And he was strong as the oaks;
I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

General references

“And I have devoured them and shattered them, so that they did not rise;
And they fell under my feet.

Their offspring You will destroy from the earth,
And their

descendants from among the sons of men.

Fire goes before Him

And burns up His adversaries round about.

For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.

‘And I will grant wonders in the sky above
And signs on the earth below,
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.