First light over a frosted winter field in the hills: a low stone cattle stall with its wooden gate standing open and straw on the threshold, a pale band of dawn on the far ridge under a calm, clear sky.

The Day of the LORD

Malachi 4

What are you waiting for God to set right?

6 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1:1–5The LORD’s loveJacob loved, Edom laid waste
1:6–14Despised offeringsBlind, lame and sick on the altar
2Covenants brokenLevi’s covenant, and the wife of your youth
3My messengerThe refiner, the full tithe, a scroll of remembrance
4The Day of the LORDThe sun of righteousness, and ElijahChapter 4

The Day of the LORD

God

God

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

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God

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Malachi 4:2

God

Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Question

Quick question

The same Day that burns like a furnace is sunrise for some.

What will those who fear the LORD do on that day?

God

God

“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.

God

Evening on the stony bank of the Jordan: a rough dark hair cloak lies where it has fallen at the water’s edge, a plain wooden staff beside it, reeds and the slow brown river beyond, no one there.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

God

God

And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

God

Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

Reflect

Is there a parent or a child your heart needs to turn toward? What is one step you could take?

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A verse to carry with you

But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Malachi 4:2

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