Mal 4.1-6 tells us about the destruction of the wicked (Jew and non-Jew) and the joy of the righteous when the Messiah comes. There is an admonition to follow the Torah of Moses and an allusion to the coming of the Poretz (breach-maker-Yochanon Ha Matvil of John the Immerser) before the great and terrible Day of the Lord (when Yeshua came, John came in the spirit and power of Elijah, meaning he was “cut out of the same cloth”-Matt 11.13-14; in the birth-pains, another will come in the spirit and power of Elijah before Yeshua comes a second time).
v 1…”For behold (see) the day is coming, burning like a furnace (judgment), and all the arrogant (proud) and every evildoer (of wickedness) will be cut off (stubble which the fire consumes), and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts (Yehovah tzavaot or of the armies-when this term is used Yehovah is coming from a military position of power), “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch (total destruction).
v 2…But for you (on the other hand; in contrast to the wicked consumed in judgment) who fear my name, the sun of righteousness (a term for the Messiah-Luke 1.78; Psa 19.4-5; Rev 22.16; Isa 30.26, 60.19; Psa 84.12) will rise with healing on his wings (Hebrew “kanaf” meaning the wings of the sun which are around the sun, spreading illumination and heat over mankind; the kanaf or “corners” also allude to the tzitzit which were hung on the corners of the talit; many in the first century knew this verse and touched Yeshua’s tzitzit on the corners of his talit in order to be healed, and they were-Mark 5.25-34, 6.56), and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall (liberated from all distress, hurts and wounds; this is also an idiom for the Messianic Kingdom).
v 3…And you will tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of the feet (have power over the wicked) on the day which I am preparing (the coming of the Messiah).
v 4…Remember the law (Torah) of Moses my servant, statutes (chukim) and ordinances (mishpatim) which I commanded him in Horeb (Sinai) for all Israel.
v 5…For behold (take note and see), I am going to send you Elijah the prophet (not literally, but one who is cut out of the same cloth, temperament, and courage) before the coming of the great and terrible (awesome) day of the Lord (this was given meaning when Yeshua came the first time in Yochanon Ha Matvil-Matt 11.12, 17.10-12; this alludes to one of the two witnesses in a wedding; Yehovah remarries Israel with the renewed covenant, ratified in Yeshua’s blood; Moses typifies the Torah, and Elijah the Nevi’im, or prophets. When Yeshua comes a second time, he will be preceded by the Two Witnesses who will minister in the spirit and power of Moses and Elijah, teaching from the Torah and the Prophets-John 3.28-29; Rom 3.21).
v 6…And he (the voice of Isa 40.3 and used about Yochanon in Luke 1.17) will restore the hearts (intentions) of the fathers (the patriarchs; Moses, David, etc) to the children (the degenerate children of Israel of Malachi’s time and later age), and the hearts (intentions) of the children (of Israel) to the fathers (the patriarchs, Moses, David, etc; the fathers are ashamed of the children, and the children of the fathers; the heart, intentions, and thoughts of the fathers will be restored in the children, then they will return in faith to their fathers, and they will think as one), lest I come and smite the land with a curse (Hebrew “cherem” meaning a ban-whoever is put under a ban is destroyed-Lev 27.28-29; Deut 13.16-17; as he did in Deut 20.17-18 with the Canaanites; if Israel is similar to the Canaanites they will be cut off).”
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