Verse Malachi 4:6. _AND HE SHALL TURN_ (CONVERT) _THE HEART OF THE FATHERS_ (על al, WITH)_ THE CHILDREN_] Or, together with the children; both old and young. _Lest I come, and_, finding them unconver...
AND HE SHALL TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS UNTO THE CHILDREN - Now they were unlike, and severed by that unlikeness from each other. Yet not on earth, for on earth parents and children were alike ali...
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...
CONCLUSION. The book closes with an exhortation to observe the Torah or instruction given through Moses; the mention of Horeb, a Deuteronomic trait (P prefers Sinai) perhaps indicates that Malachi has...
AND HE SHALL TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN, ETC. The work of John was the reformation of the nation and its preparation for Christ. He exerted. profound influence and shook the nation...
Malachi 4:4-6. Concluding Exhortation (Malachi 4:4) and Promise (Malachi 4:5) _Remember ye the law of Moses_ The revelation of God is always continuous. Each fresh step is evolved out of, and is in ha...
_he shall turn the heart of the fathers_ The "fathers" here are the patriarchs, whom the prophet regards as estranged from their degenerate "children", or descendants, and ceasing to acknowledge them...
_JOHN WAS TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE MESSIAH -- MALACHI 4:5-6:_ The Lord promised to send the prophet Elijah before that great and terrible day came. He was to lead children and parents to love each o...
DISCOURSE: 1277 ELIJAH TO PRECEDE OUR LORD Malachi 4:5. _Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fat...
BEHOLD, I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH, &C.— This prophesy, says Bishop Chandler, is a repetition of that in chap. Malachi 3:1 only the name of the _messenger_ is added to it, with the manner of his _preparin...
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 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. AND HE SHALL TURN THE HEART OF THE FATHERS...
4:6 earth (c-28) Or 'the land.' curse. (d-31) Or 'ban,' as Isaiah 34:5 ; Isaiah 43:28 ; or 'utter destruction,' as Zechariah 14:11 ....
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...
CONCLUDING ADMONITION. (4-6) As the prophetical books began (Joshua 1:2; Joshua 1:8) with “_Moses my servant_ is dead... this book of the _Law_ shall not be removed from thy mouth, &c.,” so they close...
AND HE SHALL TURN... TO THEIR FATHERS. — This does not refer to the settlement of family disputes, such as might have arisen from marriage with foreign wives. “The fathers are rather the ancestors of...
8. THE RETURN OF ELIJAH Malachi 4:4; Hebrews 4:3 With his last word the prophet significantly calls upon the people to remember the Law. This is their one hope before the coming of the great and terr...
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...
And he shall (g) turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and (h) smite the earth with a curse. (g) He shows in what John's office wo...
Heart, &c. By bringing over the Jews to the faith of Christ, he shall reconcile them to their fathers, viz., the patriarchs and prophets, whose hearts for many ages have been turned away from them, be...
REFLECTIONS Reader! pause over the solemn, the very solemn and awful account here given of the great and dreadful day of God, so often spoken of in scripture, and so certain and sure. Think how tremen...
I cannot but suppose that Elijah, and not John the Baptist, is intended here. I do not presume to say so much, but I venture to think it. Malachi had already declared the coming of John the Baptist, a...
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...
_THE SECOND ELIJAH_ ‘Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord … lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.’ Malachi 4:5 Let us look...
This verse may be viewed as containing a simple promise; but I prefer to regard it as including what is between an exhortation and a promise. The first thing is, that God reminds the Jews for what pur...
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 HE SHALL TURN THE HEART OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN,.... Or "with" the children, as Kimchi; and Ben Melech observes, that על is put for עם, and so in the next clause: AND THE HEART OF THE CHI...
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. Ver. 6. _And he shall turn the hearts of the...
Mal. 4:6. "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." By fathers, are meant all sorts of fathers, par...
_And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children_, &c. After the times of the Maccabees, to the times of Christ, the Jewish people were miserably divided among themselves, by discords, whic...
and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers, in having them both realize the love of Jehovah in sending the Messiah and in the subsequent...
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...
4-6 Here is a solemn conclusion, not only of this prophecy, but of the Old Testament. Conscience bids us remember the law. Though we have not prophets, yet, as long as we have Bibles, we may keep up...
AND HE; John the Baptist, who comes in the spirit and power of Elias. SHALL TURN; it shall be his office and work to turn, as it is the office of every preacher. The success is of God, who also gives...
Malachi 4:6 turn H7725 (H8689) hearts H3820 fathers H1 children H1121 hearts H3820 children H1121 fathers H1 come...
THE FINAL EXHORTATION (MALACHI 4:4). YHWH finalises Malachi's prophecy by pointing to ‘the Law and the prophets. Firstly He turns their thoughts to His Instruction given through Moses, and then to th...
FROM MALACHI TO MATTHEW The close of the Old Testament canon left Israel in two great divisions. The mass of the nation were dispersed throughout the Persian Empire, more as colonists than captives....
Malachi 4:6 (Revelation 22:21) It is, of course, only an accident that these words close the Old and the New Testaments. In the Hebrew Bible Malachi's prophecies do not stand at the end; but he was t...
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...
_Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet._ MALACHI’S PREDICTIONS Of the prophecies relating to the Messias some were so obscure, and had such an appearance of inconsistency, if applied to one and...
MALACHI—NOTE ON MALACHI 4:4 Summary. These closing appeals summarize the main points of Malachi’s prophecy: REMEMBER THE LAW OF MY SERVANT MOSES (the focus of the first three disputes) and prepare for...
CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 4:4.] Exhortation to avert coming judgment. Since no further communications were to be given, they were to remember those they already possessed. THE LAW] A solemn admonition...
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;...
Daniel 9:11; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27; Deuteronomy 29:19; Hebre
And he — John the Baptist. Shall turn the heart — There were at this time many great and unnatural divisions among the Jews, in which fathers studied mischief to their own children. Of the children —...