Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Malachi 4:5
Verse Malachi 4:5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet] This is meant alone of John the Baptist, as we learn from Luke 1:17, (where see the note,) in whose spirit and power he came.
Verse Malachi 4:5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet] This is meant alone of John the Baptist, as we learn from Luke 1:17, (where see the note,) in whose spirit and power he came.
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...
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...
BEHOLD,. WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY. Elijah, the prophet, had been taken up from the earth hundreds of years before Malachi uttered these words; y...
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...
_Elijah the prophet_ The reading of the LXX., "Elijah the Tishbite" (τὸν Θεσβίτην), has been thought to indicate their belief that the actual return of Elijah to earth is here foretold. Some have trac...
_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...
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: BEHOLD, I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH - as a means toward your "remembering the law" (). THE PROPHET...
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...
ELIJAH. — There is no more reason to suppose that this refers actually to “Elijah” the prophet, and that he is to appear upon earth, than to imagine from Hosea 3:5; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 37:24;...
_[Malachi 3:23]_ הִנֵּ֤ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ שֹׁלֵ֣חַ לָכֶ֔ם אֵ֖ת...
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...
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...
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...
Behold, I will send you (e) Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and (f) dreadful day of the LORD: (e) This Christ interprets of John the Baptist, who both for his zeal, and restoring or...
Elias. Septuagint add, "the Thesbite;" and St. Jerome (in Matthew xvii.) says, that Elias shall indeed come and restore all things. --- Dreadful. Christ's first coming was in all meekness; but he will...
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...
The Prophet continues the same subject; for having testified to the Jews, that though God would for a time suspend the course of prophetic teaching, they yet had in the law what was sufficient for sal...
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...
BEHOLD, I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET,.... Not the Tishbite, as the Septuagint version wrongly inserts instead of prophet; not Elijah in person, who lived in the times of Ahab; but John the Bapti...
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: Ver. 5. _Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet_] Not Elijah the Tishbite, as the Septuagin...
_Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet_ The first prophet that I shall send to you, after him who now speaks to you, will be Elijah the messenger, that shall go before the Messiah to prepare his...
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...
Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, a prophet like him, namely, John the Baptist, the forerunner of the Messiah, Matthew 11:10; Matthew 17:10; Luke 1:17, BEFORE THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND DR...
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...
I WILL SEND; though the spirit of propheey cease for four hundred years, yet at the expiring of those years you shall have one sent, as great as Elijah, and therefore he is now called Elijah, that sha...
Malachi 4:5 send H7971 (H8802) Elijah H452 prophet H5030 Before H6440 coming H935 (H8800) great H1419 dreadful...
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...
Malachi 4:4 Notice: I. Some points of resemblance between Moses and Elijah in their respective histories. (1) Moses and Elijah were both witnesses for God in a wicked age. They were confessors in the...
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...
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;...
Acts 2:19; Acts 2:20; Isaiah 40:3; Joel 2:31; John 1:21;...
Behold I will send — Though the spirit of prophecy cease for four hundred years, yet at the expiring of those years, you shall have one sent, as great as Elijah. Elijah — Namely John the Baptist, who...