Malachi 4:5-6

The Great Day of the Lord

5 d "Behold, I will send you e Elijah the prophet f before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will g turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and h strike the land with a decree of utter destruction." 1

  1. Cross References
    Malachi 3:1
    Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
  2. Cross References
    Matthew 11:14
    And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.
    Mark 9:11
    And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?
    Luke 1:17
    And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.
  3. Cross References
    Joel 2:31
    The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
  4. Cross References
    Luke 1:17
    And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:4
    But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
    Zechariah 5:3
    Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
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