Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Malachi 4:1-6
The Sun of Righteousness and His Forerunner.
The prophet, having addressed the scoffers in words of warning, in conclusion describes the results of the Lord's appointing that day of which He had spoken.
The Sun of Righteousness and His Forerunner.
The prophet, having addressed the scoffers in words of warning, in conclusion describes the results of the Lord's appointing that day of which He had spoken.
CHAPTER IV _God's awful judgments on the wicked_, 1. _Great blessedness of the righteous_, 2, 3. _The prophet then, with a solemnity becoming the last of the_ _prophets, closes the Sacred Canon wi...
FOR, BEHOLD, THE DAY COMETH, WHICH SHALL BURN AS AN OVEN - He had declared the great severance of the God-fearing and the God-blaspheming, those who served and those who did not serve God; the righteo...
THE REMNANT AND THE CONCLUDING PROPHECY CHAPTER 3:16-4:6 In the midst of all these moral conditions, the apostasy of the masses, we find a pleasing picture of a godly portion, whom the Lord mentions...
MALACHI 3:13 TO MALACHI 4:3. THE FINAL TRIUMPH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The prophet here returns to the complaint of those who thought that religion did not pay (with Malachi 3:14; cf....
BEHOLD, THE DAY COMETH, THAT SHALL BURN AS AN OVEN. With no break in the continuous thought this chapter proceeds to contrast the destiny of the wicked and the righteous with reference to the day of t...
Malachi 4:1. _the day_ i.e. "the day" predicted in the preceding verse, with which this verse coheres closely. The commencing of a new chapter here in A.V. (and LXX., after Vulg., though not in our pr...
_THE JUDGMENT IS CERTAIN -- MALACHI 4:1:_ Judgment is coming but the righteous will be delivered. One of the main reasons why it is so important for people to obey the gospel is coming judgment. We re...
DISCOURSE: 1276 THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARISING Malachi 4:1. 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 co...
BEHOLD, THE DAY COMETH— This is a continuation of the discourse in the preceding chapter; and would be more properly joined to it, than made the beginning of a new chapter....
IF THE PEOPLE WILL RETURN IN DEVOTION TO GOD HE WILL YET BLESS THEM. Malachi 3:7-12 RV. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me...
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...
4 The New Elijah 1. The comparison is to an oven heated by a fire lighted within it: cp. Matthew 6:30. This passage is closely connected with the preceding. STUBBLE] rather, 'straw.' 2. 'The day of...
MY *MESSENGER MALACHI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 4 V1 Now look! A day will come. On that day, it will be as if there is a very hot fire. And then, every proud man and everybody that does evil (t...
IV. (1) The day already foretold in Malachi 3:2 shall be as a fire burning fiercely as a furnace, and “the wicked” — not only the heathen, but the murmurers themselves, so far from being accounted hap...
_[Malachi 3:19]_ כִּֽי ־הִנֵּ֤ה הַ יֹּום֙ בָּ֔א...
4; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1 PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW "MALACHI" 1-4 BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of "Malachi." They contain many things of perennia...
WICKEDNESS AND PRIDE SHALL FIND JUDGMENT Malachi 3:13-18; Malachi 4:1-6 The day cometh! either in the fall of Jerusalem or in some terrible catastrophe yet future. Whenever it comes may we be reckone...
All this leads to his great declaration concerning the coming day. This day he described in its twofold effect. Toward the wicked it would be a day of burning and of destruction. Toward the righteous...
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall (a) 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, th...
Furnace. At the day of judgment, the difference between the just and the wicked will plainly appear. (Worthington) --- This sense is most generally given, as well as to those words where our Saviour s...
CONTENTS The Prophet in closing up his predictions to the Church, delivers a solemn message to the ungodly, and a gracious promise to the righteous. He declares the coming of Elijah before the last d...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and in a me...
He confirms the previous verse, for he denounces ruin on all the reprobate and the despisers of God; and he also confirms what I have mentioned, — that he sets this threatening in opposition to the sl...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral condition of...
FOR, BEHOLD, THE DAY COMETH THAT SHALL BURN AS AN OVEN,.... Not the day of judgment, as Kimchi and other interpreters, both Jewish and Christian, think; but the day of Christ's coming in his kingdom a...
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 i...
Mal. 4:1, 2. "For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of host...
_For behold the day cometh_ Though it may appear to be at a distance from you, yet it is coming, and will soon overtake and overwhelm you: even that great and terrible day of the Lord, as it is called...
1-3 Here is a reference to the first and to the second coming of Christ: God has fixed the day of both. Those who do wickedly, who do not fear God's anger, shall feel it. It is certainly to be applie...
MALACHI CHAPTER 4 God's judgment on the wicked, ZECHARIAH 4:1, and his blessing on the good, ZECHARIAH 4:2,3. He exhorteth to the study of the law, ZECHARIAH 4:4, and telleth of Elijah's coming and of...
Malachi 4:1 day H3117 coming H935 (H8802) Burning H1197 (H8802) oven H8574 proud H2086 do H6213 ...
Malachi 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...
CONTENTS: The day of the Lord and coming of Christ as «sun of righteousness.» Elijah to be forerunner of the day of the Lord. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Elijah, Christ, Malachi. CONCLUSION: The great da...
Malachi 4:1. _Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven._ The anger of God against the jews for crucifying “the Lord of glory,” and persecuting his saints. The sin of rejecting the remedy is m...
_All that do wickedly shall be stubble._ THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED It is matter of alarm and profound regret that this awful doctrine is so seldom preached in these days, at least with plainness...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The ungodly admonished for the DAY] of judgment. RESULTS TO THE WICKED AWFUL. BURN] as an OVEN] or furnace (cf. Matthew 6:30). “A fire burns more fiercely in a furnace than in the ope...
EXPOSITION MALACHI 4:1 4._ The final separation of the evil and the good at the day of judgment._ MALACHI 4:1 BURN AS AN OVEN (_a furnace_)_. _Fire is often spoken of in connection with the day of...
So the Lord has promised to spare us from what, and when? The Lord will spare us when His day of judgment comes. Chapter 4, verse Malachi 4:1 : For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven;...
2 Peter 3:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Amos 2:9; Exodus 15:7; Ezekiel 7:10;...
Cometh — Tho' it be at a distance from you, yet it is coming and will overtake you and overwhelm you too. As an oven — The refiner's fire, Malachi 3:2, is now represented as a fire, burning more dread...