Malachi – Chapter 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.

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.

3 And 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 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet (*) before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

(*) Referring to a person having the Spirit of Elijah, and not Elijah himself. The Bible has this way of talking, and another example of that is [30] Jeremiah 30:9, where it was referring to Jesus, the king whom God will raise up for Israel, as “David”, when he indeed isn’t David, but one of his descendants according to the flesh.

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 (*).

(*) See note in [03] Leviticus 27:29.