SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/5/2016 5:08 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Evildoers
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 4:1-3
Message of the verses: “1 "For behold, the day is coming,
burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is
coming will set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it
will leave them neither root nor branch." 2 “But for you who fear My name,
the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go
forth and skip about like calves from the stall. 3 “You will tread down the
wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am
preparing," says the LORD of hosts.”
Let me say
first of all that we will look at these three verses and then will begin to
look at the last three verses of the book of Malachi and then my plan is to finish
this book in our next SD.
Now Malachi
as he begins these verses goes back to look once again at the day of the Lord
which is a theme in his book. I cannot
answer why the prophet goes back to writing about the day of the Lord, but
nevertheless that is what he is doing.
Verse one
speaks of the evildoers being burned up like chaff which burns very easily, as
the day will come when they will see the wrath of the Lord because they would
not accept the forgiveness that was offered to them through the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now in verse two we see Malachi
talk about the believers and I believe that when we read “the sun of
Righteousness” that the word Sun should be capitalized as I believe that this
refers to the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ.
78 Because of the tender mercy of
our God, With which the Sunrise
from on high will visit us, 79 TO
SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, To guide our feet
into the way of peace’ (Luke 1:78-79).”
“Jesus will
then reign as King of Kings and His people will frolic like calves let out of
their stalls” writes Warren Wiersbe.
PT-1 “The
Preachers” (Malachi 4:4-6) “4 "Remember the law of Moses My servant,
even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.
5 “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. 6 “He
will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the
children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a
curse.’”
Malachi, in
the closing of his book reminds his readers about two great prophets, Moses and
Elijah, and we will speak more about these two in later on, but as for now we
know that Moses represents the Law, and Elijah represents the prophets. Israel was still under the Law of Moses when
Malachi wrote his book and so they had to follow that law. Believers today are not under the Law of
Moses, but as Dr. Wiersbe writes “they still practice the righteousness of the
Law through the power of the indwelling Spirit of God (Romans 8:1-4).” “1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from
the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it
was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the
requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to
the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
We will continue with this section in our next SD.
12/5/2016 5:31 PM
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