2. Testing
Testing

3. Malachi 4:4-6
“Remember the law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statues and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

4. Malachi
Prophecy
Fulfilled
Matthew 17:9-13
“Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, ‘Tell the vision to no one until the Sone of Man is risen from the dead.’ And His disciples asked Him, saying, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’ Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands’ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.”

5. Matthew 17:10-11 Malachi 4:5 Scribes said that because of…
Prophecy
Fulfilled
Matthew 17:10-11
‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’
Scribes said that because of…
Malachi 4:5
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”

6. Jesus
Already
Taught this
Matthew 11:11-15
“Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

7. Malachi 4:6
“And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers…”
Luke 1:17
“He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

8. Second
Fulfillment
Matthew 17:3-4
“And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.” Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, ‘Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one fore You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

9. Future
Tense
Matthew 17:11
“Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things”

10. Future
Tense
Elijah &
Moses?
Revelation 11:3
“And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

11. Malachi 4:4-6
“Remember the law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statues and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

12. Let others boast in their proud reasoning and call it enlightenment
But as for us, let us keep near to this sacred Word, through which the Sun of Righteousness shines upon the souls of His people, reveals divine truth to guide us. To help us. To encourage us. To challenge.

13. Take what we learn from Malachi
Lets Preach a doctrine that will touch peoples hearts and change them before the Lord and before that dreadful day!