Malachi 4:6 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁷ This made the king angry, and he sent his troops and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

³⁵ it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar! ³⁶ I tell you, all this will come upon this age! ³⁷ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused! ³⁸ Now I leave you to yourselves.

²⁷ For just as the lightning starts in the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. ²⁸ Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will flock. ²⁹ "But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake. ³⁰ Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will lament when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, in all his power and splendor.

²¹ And Peter remembered about it and said to him, "Look, Master! The fig tree that you cursed is withered up!"

¹⁴ But as soon as you see the dreadful desecration standing where he has no right to stand" (the reader must take note of this), "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills; ¹⁵ a man on the roof of his house must not go down or go into the house to get anything out of it, ¹⁶ and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat. ¹⁷ Alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies! ¹⁸ Pray that it may not be winter when it comes, ¹⁹ for there will be such misery in those days as there has never been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again. ²⁰ If the Lord had not cut those days short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of his own chosen people he has cut the days short. ²¹ If anyone says to you at that time, 'Look! Here is the Christ!' or 'Look! There he is!' do not believe it. ²² For false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can. ²³ But you must be on your guard; I have told you all about it beforehand. ²⁴ But in those days, when that misery is over, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not shed its light ²⁵ and the stars will fall from the sky and the forces in the sky will shake. ²⁶ Then they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds with great power and glory,

¹⁶ and he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

⁷⁶ "And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make his way ready,

⁴¹ As he approached the city and saw it, he wept over it, ⁴² and said, "If you yourself only knew today the conditions of peace! But as it is, they are hidden from you. ⁴³ For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up earthworks about you and surround you and shut you in on all sides, ⁴⁴ and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not know when God visited you!"

²² for those are the days of vengeance, when all that is written in the Scriptures will be fulfilled. ²³ But alas for women who are with child at that time, or who have babies, for there will be great misery in the land and anger at this people. ²⁴ They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes. ²⁵ There will be signs too in sun, moon, and stars, and on earth dismay among the heathen, bewildered at the roar of the sea and the waves. ²⁶ Men will swoon with fear and foreboding of what is to happen to the world, for the forces in the sky will shake. ²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great power and glory.

⁸ But if it yields thorns and thistles, it is thought worthless and almost cursed, and it will finally be burned.

²⁶ For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins, ²⁷ but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies. ²⁸ Anyone who breaks the Law of Moses is put to death without any show of pity, on the evidence of only two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much worse a punishment do you think will anyone deserve who tramples the Son of God underfoot, and treats as worthless the blood of the agreement by which he has been purified, and outrages God's spirit of mercy? ³⁰ For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to me! I will pay back!" and in another place, "The Lord will be the judge of his people!" ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

¹⁵ From his mouth came a sharp sword with which he is to strike down the heathen. He will shepherd them with a staff of iron, and will tread the winepress of the fierce anger of God Almighty.

³ There will no longer be anything that is accursed. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his slaves will worship him;

²⁰ He who testifies to all this says, "It is true! I am coming very soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! ²¹ The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ be with his people.