And ye shall tread down the wicked.
The prophet looks forward to the fearful day of destruction and beholds. vivid picture. The wicked, consumed, shall be as ashes, but the righteous, saved, shall walk over the fields strown with their ashes, unhurt.
Verse Malachi 4:3. _YE SHALL TREAD DOWN_] This may be the commission given to the Romans: Tread down the wicked people, tread down the wicked place; set it on fire, and let the _ashes_ be trodden down...
AND YE SHALL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED, FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET. IT SHALL BE A GREAT REVERSAL. HE THAT EXALTETH HIMSELF SHALL BE ABASED, AND HE, THAT HUMBLETH HIMSELF SHALL BE...
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....
_ashes_ to which the "stubble" has been reduced, Malachi 4:1. _that I_shall _do_this] Rather, WHEN I DO, OR WORK. See note on Malachi 3:17....
_REDEMPTION IS POSSIBLE -- MALACHI 4:2-3:_ Redemption is better than the healing rays of the sun. "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye...
YE SHALL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED— This seems to refer to the miracles of the rising church; by which the wicked, through divine grace, yielded and submitted themselves; for there could be no other way e...
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...
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in...
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...
TREAD DOWN. — Comp. Isaiah 26:5. THAT I SHALL DO THIS. — Better, _which I am about to make._ (Comp. Malachi 3:17.)...
_[Malachi 3:21]_ וְ עַסֹּותֶ֣ם רְשָׁעִ֔ים כִּֽי ־יִהְי֣וּ...
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...
_Ashes, burnt in Jerusalem. (Haydock) --- Christians rejoiced in the execution of divine justice. The Jews were not allowed to approach the new city, Elia. (St. Jerome)_...
What a blessed account is here given of the Lord Jesus! under the figurative language of the sun, and the sun of righteousness, as the sole fountain of light, and life, and heat, and vivifying influen...
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...
When God promises redemption to his Church, he usually mentions what is of an opposite character, even the destruction and ruin of his enemies, and he does this on purpose lest envy should annoy or ha...
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...
AND YE SHALL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED,.... As grapes in the winepress, as Christ did before them, Isaiah 63:2 and they by virtue of him; who makes them more than conquerors through himself, over all thei...
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. Ver. 3. _And ye shall tread down the wicked_] Chri...
_And ye shall tread down the wicked_ “Ye shall know that they are wholly subdued.” Newcome. Houbigant thinks this “refers to the miracles of the rising church, by which the wicked were compelled to yi...
And ye shall tread down the wicked, whose final overthrow is consistently prophesied in Scripture; FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET, powerless and worthless, IN THE DAY THAT I SHAL...
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 spok...
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...
AND YE: see ZECHARIAH 4:2. SHALL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED: now the ungodly, proud, and atheistical despisers of God, providence, and future judgments. do tread down those that fear God and are godly, but...
Malachi 4:3 trample H6072 (H8804) wicked H7563 ashes H665 soles H3709 feet H7272 day H3117 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...
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 Samuel 22:43; Daniel 7:18; Daniel 7:27; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 25:10;...
Tread down the wicked — When believers by faith overcome the world, when they suppress their corrupt appetites and passions, and when the God of peace bruises Satan under their feet, then they indeed...