4 [a]“Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. 3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty.
4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:[18]
"I send you Elijah" — as a means towards your "remembering the law" (Malachi 4:4).[14]
"the prophet": emphatical; not "the Tishbite" as the Septuagint version wrongly inserts instead of prophet;[16] not Elijah in person, who lived in the times of Ahab;[16] for it is in his official, not his personal capacity, that his coming is here predicted.[14]
"The great and dreadful day": The day of final judgment. No other crisis could be named in such terms (see Joel 2:31, whence the words are taken).[12] The Jews interpret that as "before the coming of Christ the son of David".[19] The Talmud interprets (s) this of the sorrows of the Messiah, or which shall be in the days of the Messiah.[20][16]
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