(4:1a) "The day cometh, that shall burn as an oven."
(4:1b-3) "All the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall
burn them up ... And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet."
God will burn "the wicked" and the "righteous" will walk around on their ashes.
(4:5) "I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the LORD." The gospel of Mark claims that John the Baptist fulfilled
the prophecy given in Malachi. But the Malachi prophecy says that God
will send Elijah before "the great and dreadful day of the LORD" in which the world will be consumed by fire. Yet John the
Baptist flatly denied that he was Elijah (Elias) in John 1:21 and the earth was not destroyed after
John's appearance.
(4:6) "Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."
The Old Testament ends fittingly with these words: "Lest I come and smite the
earth with a curse." Will God curse the earth (again)?
4:1
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.
4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.
4:3And ye shall tread down
the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day
that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
4:4Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in
Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the LORD:
4:6
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.
Get the SAB