Mal 4:1-6 KJV
For,
behold, the day cometh, that shall burn
as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble:
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts,
that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch.
(2) But unto you that fear my
name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
and ye
shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
(3)
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of
hosts. (4) Remember ye the law of Moses my servant,
which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes
and judgments. (5) Behold, I will send you Elijah
the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
(6)
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the
heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth
with a
curse.
Mat 17:1-13 KJV And after six days Jesus
taketh Peter, James,
and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain
apart, (2)
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun,
and
his raiment was white as the light.
(3) And, behold, there appeared
unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
(4) Then answered Peter, and said
unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us
make here
three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for
Elias. (5)
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and
behold
a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I
am well
pleased; hear ye him. (6) And when the disciples
heard it, they
fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
(7) And Jesus came and touched
them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
(8) And when they had lifted up
their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.
(9) And as they came down from
the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man,
until the
Son of man be risen again from the dead.
(10) And his disciples asked him,
saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
(11)
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come,
and
restore all things. (12) But I say unto you, That
Elias is come
already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they
listed.
Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
(13)
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the
Baptist.
Mal
4 and Matthew
17 correspond to each other perfectly.
- Jesus took the prime apostles, Peter, James and John up the
mountain where He was
CHANGED before their eyes and most notably His face shone like the sun.
- Moses and Elijah Appeared there
with Jesus.
Malachi 4 spoke of wrath of God
coming to the wicked, but those
who fear God's name would experience the sun of righteousness arising
with
healing in his wings and having them escape.
- Verse 2 "YE SHALL GO FORTH."
- Be freed from it all.
The
wicked would be trodden down.
And
Malachi, like Matthew 17, mentions both Moses and Elijah.
Mal 4:(4)
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant,
which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with
the statutes
and judgments. (5) Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Both
of these men appeared on the
mountain when Jesus shone like the sun, as Malachi 4 mentioned their
names in
association with THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
When
the prophet spoke of healing
from the WINGS of the sun, he referred to the BEAMS OF LIGHT.
- This is a common old testament
metaphor for beams of light.
Psa 139:9 KJV
If I take the wings of the
morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
The morning light comes so swiftly.
- It's been dark all night long.
- And though the speed of light is
always the same, as modern
science can explain, in the days when modern science was unknown, all
that the
believers understood was that light seemed to FLY SWIFTEST when the
MORNING
CAME!
- The darkness would be blasted away
by the light in SECONDS after
being there all night long.
- WINGS OF THE MORNING speak of the
beams of the sun coming in so
swiftly, as though one might take those SWIFT wings and fly to the
furthest
reaches of the sea so quickly, and find God would still be there.
- Nothing moves faster than light,
except GOD!
So
the LIGHT SHINING FROM JESUS' face speaks of HEALING!
2Co 4:6 KJV
For God, who commanded the light to shine out
of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the
light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
He shines in our hearts to give
knowledge of God;s glory AND IT
HEALS US!
- It restores us.
- He said this after speaking of his
glory like light.
2Co 3:18 KJV
But we all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory
to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
We are changed into his image as we
look at that light.
- Even chapter 3 compared that light
with a lesser light of Moses'
face.
- The same Moses spoken of in Mal 3
and who was on the mount of
transfiguration.
2Co 3:7-13 KJV
But if the ministration of death, written and
engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could
not
stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance;
which glory
was to be done away: (8) How shall not the
ministration of the spirit
be rather glorious? (9) For if the ministration of
condemnation be
glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. (10)
For even that which was made glorious had no glory
in this respect, by
reason of the glory that excelleth.
(11) For
if that which is done
away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is
glorious. (12) Seeing then that we have
such hope, we use
great plainness of speech: (13) And not as Moses, which
put a vail
over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to
the end
of that which is abolished:
Jesus whole ministry is a ministry
of light.
- And we have got to heed His
ministry and His words.
- When His light shone in that day,
everyone suddenly was divided
into two groups.
- Whose who accepted it and those who
rejected it.
Joh 9:1-41 KJV
The whole chapter lays it all out.
- Jesus heals the man and seemingly
steps aside to watch people
react.
- There are those who ATTRACT to
light and speak nothing but
positively.
- Others question and fuss and
question.
Joh 3:17-21 KJV
For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (18)
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he
that believeth not is
condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. (19) And this is the
condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their
deeds were evil. (20) For every one that doeth
evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (21)
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that
his deeds may be made
manifest, that they are wrought in God.
He doesn't condemn.
- He just shines and watches people
react.
- People are already condemned if
they do not believe, so he does not
condemn them.
Moses
and Elijah both did their most significant things that
Malachi mentioned while ON MOUNTAINS.
Mal
4: (4)
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded unto him in
Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and
judgments. (5) Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the LORD:
(6) And
he shall turn the heart of the fathers to
the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I
come and
smite the earth with a curse.
Moses
received LAW ON MOUNT HOREB.
- Verse 4 even mentions HOREB, the
MOUNTAIN.
- And Elijah was on a mountain.
- And he was turning the hearts of
the
children back to the fathers... the Israelites back to the faith of
Abraham,
and Isac, and Jacob, the FATHERS of Israel.
1Ki 18:17-20 KJV
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah,
that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth
Israel? (18) And he answered, I have
not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's
house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou
hast
followed Baalim. (19) Now therefore send, and
gather to me
all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and
fifty,
and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's
table. (20) So Ahab sent unto all the
children of Israel, and gathered the prophets
together unto mount Carmel.
AND FIRE CAME.
1Ki 18:30-31 KJV
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come
near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired
the altar
of the LORD that was broken down.
(31) And
Elijah took twelve
stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob,
unto whom
the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
REPAIRING an altar whose stones
stood for the twelve tribes, is
REPAIRING THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE.
- And notice how we read about this.
- "Took twelve stones, according to the
number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the
LORD came,
saying, Israel shall be thy name:"
- We read they were sons of Jacob.
- In other words, Elijah's twelve
stones represented the 12 sons of
a man named Jacob, whom GOD TOOK AND CHANGED INTO ISRAEL.
- CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE.
- "YOU NEED TO CHANGE NOW.
JACOB'S GOD CHANGED JACOB TO ISRAEL, and now YOU
are all Israel's sons and have reverted to JACOB AGAIN.
You MUST CHANGE BACK to ISRAEL."
- It's like JACOB WAS CHANGED AND
THEN WENT BACK TO WHAT HE WAS
BEFORE, AND HAS TO CHANGE BACK AGAIN.
Mal 4:(5)
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: (6)
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the
children, and the
heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth
with a
curse.
TURN
TURN TURN
Matt 17: (10) And his disciples asked
him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias
must first come? (11) And Jesus answered and
said unto them, Elias
truly shall first come, and restore all things.
(12) But
I say unto you, That
Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him
whatsoever
they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. (13)
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto
them of John the
Baptist.
Mar 1:4 KJV
John did baptize in the wilderness, and
preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
Mat 3:1-2 KJV
In those days came John the Baptist,
preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
(2) And
saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
REPENT MEANS TURN!!!!
Then
the fire came down on the altar of Elijah ...
As
Elijah TURNED ISRAEL
1Ki 18:37-39 KJV
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people
may know that thou art the LORD God, and that
thou hast turned their heart back
again. (38) Then the fire of the LORD
fell, and consumed
the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and
licked up
the water that was in the trench.
(39) And
when all the people saw it, they fell on their
faces: and they said, The
LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is
the God.
TURN - REPENT.
John
the baptists was that Elijah!
- But to show all of this, Jesus had
this enacted out on the
mountain of Transfiguration.
- Just as MOSES was a prophet and GOT
LAW on the mountain, Jesus was
the PROPHET God spoke about on that mountain, and WAS THE FULFILLMENT
OF THE
LAW!!!
- And just as Elijah turned Israel
back to God on that mountain,
JESUS was the one to whom Israel must turn!
And
The Father spoke out of GLORY to Peter and said, THIS IS MY
SON, HEAR HIM!
Luke 9:30-35 KJV
And, behold, there talked with him two men,
which were Moses and Elias: (31) Who
appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish
at
Jerusalem. (32) But Peter and they that
were with him were
heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the
two men
that stood with him. (33) And it
came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master,
it is
good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for
thee, and
one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said. (34)
While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and
overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud. (35)
And there came a voice out of the cloud,
saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Peter interrupted the chat about
THE CROSS.
- Moses, and Elijah and Jesus were
talking about the CROSS.
- Peter spoke and the Father said
HEAR HIM!
I
can see the work that Moses did on the mountain so long ago
being finally UNDERSTOOD this day
- for
all Moses did way back then, was ALL FOR JESUS WHO WOULD COME, and
MOSES
REPRESENTED THAT BY SPEAKING ON THE MOUNTAIN OF JESUS' CROSS.
- Elijah turned all Israel back to
God that day on a mountain, and
He represented it ON THIS MOUNTAIN BY SPEAKING OF THE CROSS OF JESUS.
This
is the sacrifice upon whom the fire will fall!
- He is wellpleasing
- When Moses told God the people
could not stand to hear the trumpet
voice in Moses' day, GOD SPOKE IT WAS WELL.
Deu 5:23-28 KJV
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice
out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with
fire,) that
ye came near unto me, even all the heads
of your tribes, and your elders; (24) And ye
said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his
greatness, and
we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this
day
that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
(25) Now
therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if
we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. (26)
For who is there
of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God
speaking
out of the midst of the fire, as we have,
and lived? (27) Go thou near, and hear all
that the LORD our
God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall
speak
unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. (28)
And the
LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD
said
unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they
have
spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have
spoken.
Mal said the Lord will shine as the
sun of righteousness.
- His beams
of light will be wings with healing.
- REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES ON HOREB,
Malachi said.
- You will recall a VOICE associated
with it that the people could
not bear, so God said A PROPHET WILL THEY HEAR.
- HEAR YE HIM.
Elijah
turned all Israel to the Lord on a mountain, and here on a
mountain he stands speaking of the cross, HEAR HIM, Peter!