Malachi 4:2-6

Satan seeks to destroy us…but God! We are sealed with Holy Spirit and no one can snatch us from His hands!

Love God with all your heart, mind and spirit and trust Him to do what you cannot.

How we treat others matters to God He laid the groundwork in the old testament. He does not change. We change according to how something benefits us, but God…does not change!

Malachi 4:2-6

2 But to you who fear My name

The Sun of Righteousness shall arise

With healing in His wings;

And you shall go out

And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

3 You shall trample the wicked,

For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet

On the day that I do this,”

Says the Lord of hosts.

4 “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,

Which I commanded 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.

6 And he will turn

The hearts of the fathers to the children,

And the hearts of the children to their fathers,

Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

These final verses of Malachi are generally understood as the conclusion to the entire book, but it may also function as the conclusion to the sixth disputation. These three verses summarize the essence of Malachi’s message: the need for proper observance of God’s law, the reality of future judgment, and the importance of maintaining a proper society that remains aligned with God’s instruction. The book ends with an explicit call to remain obedient to the law of Moses. Faithlife Bible.

This is the righteous remnant who held God in wonder and awe, responded to Him in obedience, and lived for Him with constant faith. The prophet compares the Savior to a bird whose comforting wings bring healing to the chicks that gather underneath. The victory of the righteous over the wicked is a promise of the living God that transcends the two testaments The identity of the Victor is already known. The command is to act on the teaching that had come from the living God. The Law had its origin in the Lord, and Moses was the divinely appointed transmitter of God’s will and word to the people.

The NT identifies John the Baptist as this Elijah. There are three ways in which this prophecy might be fulfilled: (1) John the Baptist, whom Malachi had already prophesied, was the first to fulfill the promise of the Elijah figure. John, like Elijah, was a minister of the Lord calling people to repent and prepare for the coming of the Messiah. (2) Elijah appeared in person along with Moses at the Transfiguration, a stunning vindication of the messianic role of Jesus. (3) An Elijah-like figure will appear at the end times; he will call fire down from heaven just as Elijah did. 

Malachi ends with both a promise and a warning. As in every act of God announcing judgment, there is also an offer of His mercy. The term curse is one of the harshest in Scripture. The Hebrew word suggests complete annihilation. This is the term translated doomed in the account of the destruction of Jericho. NKJ Bible.

Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.

Deuteronomy 4:10 especially concerning the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,And the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

Matthew 11:14 And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.

Luke 1:17 He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

This was in my inbox after doing this Bible Study….God is so very good at affirming His words to us!!

“The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Romans 5:5). Note the preposition of. The Holy Spirit pours the love of God into our hearts, not love for God. God hands a bucket of love to the Spirit and instructs, “Douse their hearts.”

There are moments when the Spirit enchants us with sweet rhapsody. You belong to the Father. Signed, sealed, and soon-to-be delivered. Been a while since you heard him whisper words of assurance? Then tell him. He’s listening to you, and he’s speaking for you. Romans 8:26 says, “The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness” Weak bodies, weak wills, weakened resolves. Whether we are feeble of the soul or body or both, how good to know it’s not up to us. Verse 26 of Romans 8 says, “The Spirit himself is pleading for us.” Max Lucado