Malachi 4:1
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The Great Day of the Lord
4 [a] “For behold, (A)the day is coming, (B)burning like an oven, when (C)all the arrogant and (D)all evildoers (E)will be stubble. The day that is coming (F)shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
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- Malachi 4:1 Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew
Malachi 3:2
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2 But (A)who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For (B)he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
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2 Peter 3:7
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7 But by the same word (A)the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and (B)destruction of the ungodly.
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2 Thessalonians 1:8
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8 (A)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those (B)who do not know God and on those who (C)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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Isaiah 47:14
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14 Behold, (A)they are like stubble;
(B)the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
no fire to sit before!
Obadiah 18
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18 (A)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau (B)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
(C)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 5:24
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24 Therefore, (A)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (B)their root will be (C)as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (D)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have (E)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Luke 19:43
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43 For (A)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (B)will set up a barricade around you and (C)surround you and hem you in on every side
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Matthew 3:12
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12 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and (B)gather his wheat into the barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”
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Malachi 3:18
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18 Then once more you shall (A)see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
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Malachi 3:15
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15 And now we call (A)the arrogant blessed. (B)Evildoers not only prosper but (C)they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Zephaniah 1:18
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18 (A)Neither their silver nor their gold
shall be able to deliver them
on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
(B)In the fire of his jealousy,
(C)all the earth shall be consumed;
(D)for a full and sudden end
he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Nahum 1:5-6
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5 (A)The mountains quake before him;
(B)the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
(C)the world and all who dwell in it.
6 (D)Who can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath (E)is poured out like fire,
and (F)the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
Joel 2:31
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31 (A)The sun shall be turned to darkness, (B)and the moon to blood, (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
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Joel 2:1
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The Day of the Lord
2 (A)Blow a trumpet in (B)Zion;
sound an alarm on (C)my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for (D)the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
Isaiah 2:12-17
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12 (A)For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
13 against all the (B)cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the (C)oaks of Bashan;
14 against all (D)the lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;
16 against all (E)the ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.
17 (F)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Job 18:16
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Luke 21:20
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Jesus Foretells Destruction of Jerusalem
20 “But (A)when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that (B)its desolation has come near.
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Malachi 4:5
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5 (A)“Behold, I will send you (B)Elijah the prophet (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
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Zechariah 14:1
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The Coming Day of the Lord
14 Behold, (A)a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.
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Zephaniah 1:14
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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near,
near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
(B)the mighty man cries aloud there.
Nahum 1:10
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10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
(B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Amos 2:9
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9 “Yet (A)it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
(B)whose height was like the height of the cedars
and who was as strong as the oaks;
(C)I destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.
Isaiah 41:2
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2 (A)Who stirred up one from the east
whom victory meets at every (B)step?[a]
(C)He gives up nations before him,
so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
(D)like driven stubble with his bow.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:2 Or whom righteousness calls to follow?
Isaiah 40:24
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24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
(A)and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
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