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 righteous and the wicked; now he declares the way and time of the severance, the Day of Judgment. Daniel ha... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT (AND) UNTO YOU, WHO FEAR MY NAME, SHALL THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARISE - It is said of God Psalms 84:11, “The Lord God is a sun and a shield, and Isaiah 60:19, The Lord shall be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory; thy sun shall no more go down, for the Lord shall be thine everla... [ Continue Reading ]
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 EXALTED - Here the wicked often have the pre-eminence. This was the complaint of the murmurers amon... [ Continue Reading ]
REMEMBER YE THE LAW OF MOSES, MY SERVANT - Galatians 3:24. “The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ.” They then who were most faithful to the law, would be most prepared for Christ. But for those of his own day, too, who were negligent both of the ceremonial and moral law, he says “Sinc... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD I WILL SEND (I SEND, AS A FUTURE, PROXIMATE IN THE PROPHET’S MIND) YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET - The Archangel Gabriel interprets this for us, to include the sending of John the Immerser. For he not only says Luke 1:17. that he shall “go before” the Lord “in the spirit and power of Elias,” but des... [ Continue Reading ]
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 alienated from God, and united between themselves in wickedness or worldliness. The common love of the... [ Continue Reading ]