Maleakhi 3:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Pada masa itu kamu akan menoleh dan melihat bedanya antara orang yang benar dengan orang fasik, antara orang yang berbakti kepada Allah dengan orang yang tiada berbakti kepada-Nya!

Contextual Overview

¹³ Your wordes haue ben stout against me saith the lorde: and you saide, Wherein haue we spoken against thee? ¹⁴ Ye haue saide: [it is but] vayne to serue God, and what profite [is it] that we haue kept his commaundement, & that we haue walked humbly before the face of the Lorde of hoastes? ¹⁵ And nowe we call the proude happie: yea the workers of wickednesse are set vp, and also they that tempt God, yea they are deliuered. ¹⁶ Then they that feared God, saide euery one to his neighbour: and the Lorde considered and hearde, and there was written a booke of remebraunce before him for them that feared the Lorde, and for them that thinke vpon his name. ¹⁷ And they shalbe to me, saith the Lorde of hoastes, in that day wherein I shall do [iudgement,] a stocke: and I wyl spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne which serueth him. ¹⁸ Then shall ye returne, and discerne betweene the iust and the wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall: Malachi 3:14, Malachi 3:15, Malachi 1:4, Job 6:29, Job 17:10, Jeremiah 12:15, Joel 2:14, Zechariah 1:6

discern: Genesis 18:25, Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:11, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Daniel 12:1-3, Matthew 25:46, Romans 2:5, Romans 2:6, 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10

between him: Joshua 24:15, Daniel 3:17-26, John 12:26, Acts 16:17, Acts 27:23, Romans 1:9, Romans 6:16-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:23 - and Noah Exodus 8:22 - sever Exodus 9:4 - General Exodus 10:23 - but all Exodus 11:7 - a difference Leviticus 11:47 - General Numbers 16:5 - the Lord Deuteronomy 25:1 - General Deuteronomy 29:21 - separate Joshua 22:22 - Israel Job 10:15 - If I be wicked Job 21:19 - he shall Psalms 1:5 - sinners Psalms 6:10 - return Psalms 26:9 - Gather not Psalms 37:6 - light Psalms 94:15 - But Ecclesiastes 2:13 - I saw Ecclesiastes 4:1 - I returned Ecclesiastes 8:13 - it shall Ecclesiastes 9:2 - feareth Ecclesiastes 9:11 - returned Isaiah 25:8 - off Isaiah 32:5 - vile Isaiah 65:13 - my servants shall eat Isaiah 66:14 - the hand Ezekiel 18:30 - every Daniel 2:18 - of the God of heaven Hosea 2:9 - will I Micah 7:9 - he will Malachi 4:1 - and all the Matthew 7:22 - to me Matthew 13:30 - both Matthew 25:32 - he shall separate Luke 16:26 - between Romans 8:19 - the manifestation 1 Corinthians 4:5 - who Revelation 7:3 - the servants Revelation 11:12 - and their

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And the lord god said vnto ye serpent: Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy lyfe.

Genesis 3:15
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.

Joshua 23:13
Be ye sure that the Lorde your God will no more cast out all these nations from before you: but they shalbe snares and trappes vnto you, and scourges in your sides, & thornes in your eyes, vntill ye perishe from of this good land whiche the Lorde your God hath geuen you.

Job 1:21
And sayde: Naked came I out of my mothers wombe, & naked shall I turne thyther againe: The Lorde gaue & the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lorde.

Job 5:5
His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,

Job 31:40
Then let thystles growe in steede of my wheate, and cockle for my barlye.

Psalms 90:3
Thou turnest man most miserable euen vnto dust: thou sayest also, O ye children of men returne you into dust.

Psalms 104:2
Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne.

Proverbs 22:5
Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that doth kepe his soule, wyll flee farre from them.

Proverbs 24:31
And lo, it was all couered with nettles, and stoode full of thornes, and the stone wall was broken downe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall ye return,.... Either the wicked, who will be "converted" z, as some render the word, and will have a different view of things, and change their minds and language; or they that feared the Lord, who at the time before spoken of will have a new turn of thought, and another and clear discerning of persons and things, and better judge of the dispensations of Providence: some that refer this to the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgment, understand it, as Abarbinel does, of the returning of souls to their bodies, when indeed the difference between persons after described will be very discernible; but it seems to refer to the time of Christ's first coming, and Jerusalem's destruction:

and discern between the righteous and the wicked; the difference between such who are really and truly righteous, who are here meant, even such who believe in Christ, and are justified by his righteousness; and those that are wicked, as all by nature are: though sometimes this character designs the more profane and abandoned, and even professors of religion; the difference between these is not always easily discerned; as for the righteous, they are not known and discerned by the world; and by reason of afflictions, temptations, and sins, they are apt to judge wrong of themselves; and sometimes are so left to fall into sin, that they look like others: and there are wicked men under the appearance of righteous men, as were the Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time; but by the destruction that came upon them, and the preservation of such as believed in Christ, it was discernible who were wicked, and who were righteous; indeed, at the last day, this difference will be more visible; in the bodies of the righteous, which will be raised glorious, when those of the wicked will not; in their souls, having on the wedding garment, the robe of Christ's righteousness, and perfectly holy; and in their situation, being set at Christ's right hand, and the wicked at his left; and by the characters that will be given of them by the Judge, and the different sentences passed and executed on them:

between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not; that is, between such persons that serve the Lord, and him only, privately and publicly, in righteousness and true holiness, in spirit and in truth, with faith and fervency, with reverence and fear, heartily and willingly, seeking his glory, without any dependence on their services; and those that are ungodly, or only outwardly serve the Lord, for sinister ends, and with selfish views, and according to their own inventions, and the traditions of men, and not the will of God, as the Scribes and Pharisees; between whom, and Christ's sincere disciples and followers, the awful day, described in the next chapter Malachi 4:1, will make a manifest difference.

z ושבתם "et convertemini", Cocceius, Gussetius, so Pagninus, Montanus; "conversi", Drusius, Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shall ye return, or turn - , not, “return” in the sense of returning to God, for in that day will be the time of judgment, not of repentance; nor yet, “then shall ye again see;” for this is what they denied; and, if they had ceased to deny it, they would have been converted, not in that day, but before, when God gave them grace to see it. They shall turn, so as to have other convictions than before; but, as Judas. The Day of Judgment will make a great change in earthly judgment. Last shall be first and first last; this world’s sorrow shall end in joy, and worldly joy in sorrow; afflictions shall be seen to be God’s love: Psalms 119:75, “Thou in very faithfulness hast afflicted me;” and the unclouded prosperity of the ungodly to be God’s abandonment of them. The picture of the surprise of the wicked in the Day of Judgment, in the Wisdom of Solomon, is a comment on the prophet (Wisdom 5:1-5), “Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labors; when they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed with the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all they looked for: and they, repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit, shall say within themselves, This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach: we fools counted his life madness and his end to be without honor: how is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 3:18. Then shall ye return — To your senses, when perhaps too late; and discern-see the difference which God makes, between the righteous and the wicked, which will be most marked and awful.

Between him that serveth God — Your obedience to whom, ye said, would be unprofitable to you.

And him that serveth him not. — Of whom ye said, his disobedience would be no prejudice to him. You will find the former received into the kingdom of glory; and the latter, with yourselves, thrust down into the bitter pains of an eternal death. Reader, ponder these things.

In the great day of the Lord, at least, if not long before, it will be fully discovered who have been the truly wise people; those who took up their cross and followed Christ; or those who satisfied the flesh, with its affections and desires, following a multitude to do evil.