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Mal.4:2. And the sun of righteousness will shine upon you who fear My name...
To the sons of Judah, who were besieged by the armies of the tribe of Gog, who surrounded their entire land, the prophet says that the light of salvation will shine for them from the Lord. In the sense of the mysterious sun of truth, the prophet calls Christ and the Gospel teaching. "Healing is on his tongue" (Mal.4:2). And here the prophet also speaks of the saving Gospel and of the life-giving words of our Lord contained in the Gospel.
and you will go out and leap like bulls,
when you defeat your cruel enemies.
Mal.4:3. and there will be ashes under your feet
corpses of the sons of the Gogov tribe.
Mal.4:4. Remember the law of Moses my servant.
Malachi, the last of the prophets, points the Jewish people to the law and to John - the end of the law, and calls him Elijah.
Mal.4:5. And behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet...before the coming of the great day of the Lord...
Mal.4:6. who will arrange the heart of a father towards his son and the heart of a son towards his father.
Malachi prophetically says this about John the Baptist, which was fulfilled on John, as confirmed by what Zechariah heard from the Angel: “And he will go before Him in the spirit and with the power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the father to his children” (Luke 1:17). About him our Lord spoke to the Jews: “And if you want to be received, he is Elijah who wants to come” (Matthew 11:14).
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