The Great and Terrible Day of YHWH | Malachi 3:13-4:6

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What would sustain Israel through the dark days to come?

What was the last message which God left ringing in the ears of Israel? Of us in Christ?

The Great and Terrible Day of YHWH | Malachi 3:13-4:6 | Malachi's Burden | Outline | Video

"You have criticized me sharply," says YHWH, "but you ask, 'How have we criticized you?'
You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before YHWH of Heaven's Armies? So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!'"
Then those who respected YHWH spoke to one another, and YHWH took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected YHWH and honored his name.
"They will belong to me," says YHWH of Heaven's Armies, "in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not."
"For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up," says YHWH of Heaven’s Armies. "It will not leave them even a root or branch. But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall. You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says YHWH of Heaven's Armies.

"Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of YHWH arrives. He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment" (Malachi 3:13-4:6).