Malachi 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. {THE END OF THE PROPHETS.}

Lest

And smite

General references

Matthew 11:13

Acts 2:19

Bible References

Lest

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of our God’s vengeance;
to comfort all who mourn,

After those 62 weeks
the Messiah will be cut off
and will have nothing.
The people of the coming prince
will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
The end will come with a flood,
and until the end there will be war;
desolations are decreed.

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

In the whole land—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
two-thirds will be cut off and die,
but a third will be left in it.

I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.

So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

“When you see the abomination that causes desolation

standing where it should not” (let the reader understand), “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!

As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,

because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all the things that are written.

And smite

When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.

So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary,
and set Jacob apart for destruction
and Israel for abuse.

You will leave your name behind
as a curse for My chosen ones,
and the Lord God will kill you;
but He will give His servants another name.

All Israel has broken Your law and turned away, refusing to obey You. The promised curse written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him.

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for every thief will be removed according to what is written on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be removed according to what is written on the other side.

This will be the plague the Lord strikes all the peoples with, who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Then Peter remembered and said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that You cursed is withered.”

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

and there will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His slaves will serve Him.

General references

For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John;

I will display wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below:
blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.