{"id":16043,"date":"2026-02-05T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16043"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:31:27","slug":"malachi-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16043\/malachi-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Malachi 4:2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What a wonderful meeting last night!\u00a0 Initially, I felt great sadness because it feels like the end of a thing.\u00a0 But the Spirit moved me to great gladness because I am here and full of joy.\u00a0 In the last few years I have learned much.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a question for you.\u00a0 Reading Malachi 4:2 this morning it says “But to you that fear my name will the Sun of righteouness rise with healings in his wings.”\u00a0 Should that be Son?\u00a0 It seems to be speaking of the Son of God, not the sun of the earth.\u00a0 When I read Sun, I immediately thought of the sun god of the Roman’s.\u00a0 It just feels wrong.\u00a0 If I am wrong help me understand please.\u00a0 It could be my version is not up to date maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for your dedicated service to the LORD.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark W.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Mark.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, that verse from Malachi was a prophecy of the coming Messiah, the Son of God.\u00a0 The Hebrew words for “sun” and “son” are not similar at all, though they sound the same in English and are very close in spelling.\u00a0 In that verse, “sun” is correct because the Hebrew word for “sun” is there.\u00a0 Still, as you know, Malachi was speaking of the Son of God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

None of the sun-gods of the Gentiles, and there were many of them, were suns of righteousness.\u00a0 They were demons.\u00a0 So, when reading that verse, just think of Jesus, and forget about what Pagans thought.\u00a0 That’s our privilege in Christ, to keep our minds fixed on him and have peace.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning Pastor John,\u00a0 What a wonderful meeting last night!\u00a0 Initially, I felt great sadness because it feels like the end of a thing.\u00a0 But the Spirit moved me to great gladness because I am here and full of joy.\u00a0 In the last few years I have learned much. I have a question for you.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16044,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions\/16044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}