Malachi 4
The day of the Lord is coming, and it will bring judgment, burning away the arrogant and evildoers, leaving them with nothing. However, those who revere God's name will experience healing and rise with the sun of righteousness, ultimately triumphing over the wicked. God reminds the people to remember the law of Moses and promises to send the prophet Elijah before the great day of the Lord, who will restore family relationships or else the land will be cursed.
1"Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them.2But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.3Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things," 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 you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.6He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."
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