"1 "For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when ALL THE ARROGANT AND ALL EVILDOERS WILL BE STUBBLE. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD OF HOSTS, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But for YOU WHO FEAR MY NAME, the "SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
3 And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts."
It might be tempting to disregard the final chapter of Malachi, as literally six verses later the revelation story of GOD INCARNATE begins to be written. There can be a tendency to "speed read" past what seems like less important words, but GOD breathed these verses (2 Timothy 3:16-17) into HIS servant for our refinement and edification. Why should we overlook the CREATOR's design for our lives? Why do we ignore HIS Words of encouragement when the "evil one" is using every tool he can muster to ensnare us?
During a "personal" Bible Study recently the subject of does GOD allow "bad things" to happen to "good people" ever occur came into my mind. In Acts 9:15-16 JESUS tells Ananias "Go, for he (Saul/Paul) is a chosen instrument of MINE to carry MY name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For I WILL SHOW HIM HOW MUCH HE MUST SUFFER FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME". Even today, we may have to "SUFFER FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME", but we don't need to lose sight that the "SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" shall rise up with healing in its wings one day!
In 2 Thessalonians 2:8 scripture records "And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the LORD JESUS will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming." There are some who actually BELIEVE that the Word of GOD is more than a book of prophecy, it is a list of PROMISES, of HIS Plan for all of mankind. To be found guilty of being in such a group of radicals is an honor that can only be bestowed upon us by GOD THE FATHER (1 Peter 2:9), not because we are "good"!
While it is true that we may get to suffer for the sake of HIS KINGDOM (1 Peter 4:13-14), the "SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" will one day be displayed in our lives with NO CLOUDS to obstruct HIS LIGHT! All of the ARROGANT AND EVILDOERS WILL BE STUBBLE before HIM! HIS brightness will be forever on display as the "SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" assumes HIS Throne in GLORY!!!
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