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Malachi 4
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3 Nephi 25 is taken nearly verbatim from Malachi 4. (1 Nephi
22:15 is also taken from Mal.4:1.) Joseph Smith
freely added words to some verses and removed others. (For example, "Sun" in verse 2 is changed to "Son" in
3 Nephi 25:2.)
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| 4:1
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. |
(3:1; 4:1, 5) "The day cometh"
The gospel of Mark claims that John the Baptist fulfilled
the prophecy given in Malachi. But the Malachi prophecy says that God
will send Elijah before "the great and dreadful day of the LORD" in which the world will be consumed by fire. Yet John the
Baptist flatly denied that he was Elijah (Elias) in John 1:21 and the earth was not destroyed after
John's appearance.
 (4:1-3)
God will burn "the wicked" and the "righteous" will walk around on their ashes.
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| 4:2 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.
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| 4:3
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.
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| 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. |
"Remenber ye the law of Moses."
Must we obey the Old Testament laws?
Where did Moses receive the ten commandments?
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| 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the LORD: |
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| 4:6
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.
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The Old Testament ends fittingly with these words: "Lest I come and smite the
earth with a curse."
Will God curse the earth (again)?
How should parents be treated?
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