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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Malachi 4:5 send H7971 (H8802) Elijah H452 prophet H5030 Before H6440
coming H935 (H8800) great H1419 dreadful...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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Acts 2:19; Acts 2:20; Isaiah 40:3; Joel 2:31; John 1:21;...
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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...