Sunday, June 12, 2016

Neither Root Nor Branch - Malachi 4:1-4

Malachi 4:1-4 ESV 


“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

Israel is the root of God's presence on earth. The body of Christ is the branch grafted into that root. It is the branch which bears the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Together they represent the tree of life. Together they bear the light of the living God. Jesus is the radiance of that light. 

Those not attached to the tree will fall in the fire that will blaze on the day of the Lord. 

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