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CHAPTER 25At the Second Coming the proud and wicked shall be burned as stubble—Elijah shall return before that great and dreadful day—Compare Malachi 4. [A.D. 34] |
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1 aFOR behold, the day cometh that shall
bburn as an oven; and all the cproud,
yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither
root nor branch.
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1a
Mal. 4:1 (1-6) b Ps. 21:9 (8-10); Isa. 24:6; Isa. 66:16; 1 Ne. 22:15; 3 Ne. 24:2; D&C 29:9; D&C 64:23-24; D&C 133:64 JS-H 1:37; TG Earth, Cleansing of c Ps. 18:27; 2 Ne. 20:33; TG Pride
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2 But unto you that fear my name, shall the aSon of
Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and
bgrow up as ccalves in the stall.
3 And ye shall atread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of Hosts.
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2a
Ps. 84:11;
Mal. 4:2;
Ether 9:22 b D&C 45:58 c Amos 6:4; 1 Ne. 22:24 3a 3 Ne. 21:12
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4 Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto
him in aHoreb for all Israel, with the statutes and
judgmentsa.
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4a the statutes and judgments Frequently the concept that the whole of the Law of Moses was done away with in Christ's fulfilment of it. Those who consider this do not understand the fulfilment of the law. For the fulfilment in Christ was in those things, those performances and sacrifices and ordinances which did specifically point unto His coming, His work and His atonement. That is the 'Law of Performances which is fulfilled. But as to the statutes and judgments, as to the laws, commandments, precepts and principles and the judgements of God, all of these are to be remembered and kept by man. Such is the nature of the ten commandments and the great commandments of God. They are to be kept and remembered forever. They are a part of the unchangable nature of God and the principles of eternity. What was fulfilled was the performance of animal sacrifices which performances and ordinances where for the sole purpose of pointing men unto Christ. But since the Jewish did loose sight of the forest because of the trees, for since the Jewish took more pleasure in the performance of the act rather than looking to what it did represnt to come, the Jewish did not understand what of the Law of Moses was fulfilled and they confused the matter by the fact of their own corrupted belief in the coming Messiah, the Son of God to the salvation of the earth.. |
4a
Ex. 3:1;
Ex. 19:18 (9, 16-20);
1 Kings 19:8; Neh. 9:13; Mosiah 12:33; Mosiah 13:5
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5 Behold, I will send you aElijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful bday of the
Lord;
6 And he shall aturn the heart of the bfathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and csmite the earth with a curse.
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5a
2 Kings 2:2;
D&C 2:1;
D&C 35:4; D&C 110:13-16; D&C 128:17-18; TG Genealogy and Temple Work b TG Day of the Lord 6a D&C 98:16-17 b TG Family, Eternal; TG Salvation for the Dead c Mal. 4:6; D&C 110:15 (13-16)
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