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Malachi 4 as Jesus gives it in 3 Nephi 25

The Book of Mormon · 3 Nephi 25:1–6

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3 Nephi 25:1–6 25:1 For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, 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. 25:2 But unto you that fear my name, shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall. 25:3 And ye shall tread 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. 25:4 Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 25:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; 25:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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1000 BCE010001500180019002000About 450 BCE · book composition · Prophecy given or recorded · Estimated composition of the Book of Malachi1830 · Book of Mormon first published · Prophecy given or recorded · Malachi 4 as Jesus gives it in 3 Nephi 25 — Book of Mormon publication10 March 1844 · reported discourse · Interpretation recorded · Smith interprets Elijah’s work as joining the living and the dead28 August 1859 · Orson Pratt’s sermon · Interpretation recorded · Pratt: Elijah came before the great and dreadful day
  1. About 450 BCE · book compositionEstimated composition of the Book of Malachi Prophecy given or recorded
  2. 1830 · Book of Mormon first publishedMalachi 4 as Jesus gives it in 3 Nephi 25 — Book of Mormon publication Prophecy given or recorded
  3. 10 March 1844 · reported discourseSmith interprets Elijah’s work as joining the living and the dead Interpretation recorded
  4. 28 August 1859 · Orson Pratt’s sermonPratt: Elijah came before the great and dreadful day Interpretation recorded

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