“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It will not leave even a root or branch.
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But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
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You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord who rules over all.
Restoration through the Lord4
“Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey.
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Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.
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He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”