“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven…” Malachi 4:1
Like so much of the Old Testament, this last chapter of its last book contains things I understand and things I don’t.
I understand that the great day of the Lord is coming. A day of judgement. A day that will “burn like an oven.” And I understand that before that future day of judgement, there is a day of salvation. A day of mercy. Today is that day.
I understand that the God of the Universe steps onto the stage only twice in history. When He did the first time, He was despised and rejected. Cast out. “He bore our sins in His own body on the tree.”
When He comes the second time, however, on that great and last day, it will altogether different. As C.S. Lewis said, “When the Author walks on the stage, the play’s over.”
