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Malachi 3:13-4:6

Malachi 3:13 “Your words against me are harsh,” says Yahveh. Yet you ask, “What have we spoken against you?”
Malachi 3:14 You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before Yahveh of Armies?
Malachi 3:15 So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.”
Malachi 3:16 Those who feared Yahveh spoke to one another at that time. Yahveh took notice and listened. So, a book of remembrance was written before him for those who feared Yahveh and had high regard for his name.
Malachi 3:17 “They will be mine,” says Yahveh of Armies, “my possession on the day I prepare. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.
Malachi 3:18 So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
Malachi 4:1 “You see, notice, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says Yahveh of Armies, “not leaving them root or branches.
Malachi 4:2 But for you who fear my name, the righteous sun will rise with healing in its rays, and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.
Malachi 4:3 You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says Yahveh of Armies.
Malachi 4:4 “Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Malachi 4:5 Notice, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of Yahveh comes.
Malachi 4:6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

you shall see

The final dispute in this arbitration that has been going on is found in these verses, the last in the Old Testament. The LORD accuses his people of speaking hard, harsh words against him. What are the hard words? “It is vain to serve God.” The LORD’s response to those words is this: he promises a day that will burn like an oven and destroy the wicked, leaving them neither root nor branch. Only those who fear the LORD will be spared on that day. Their names are recorded in his book of remembrance. On that day, all the others who complained will see that serving the LORD was not vain, or empty.

LORD, we plead with you, not to let us rest until we have reconciled with you. We stand condemned before your judgment. Rescue us through Christ.