He Came as a Thief in the Night

Malachi ch.4: "4 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. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 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. 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 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." This brief and eery chapter conta...

  "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him" (1 Kings 19:18). As is typical in the Word, a term like "kiss" or "to kiss" has good or evil expressions depending on context. The kissing in the verse above represents the polar opposite of the kissing in the verse below: "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him" (Psalms 2:12). The kissing in question represents conjunction when the symbol is positive; and when it is negative -- as in the kissing of Baal -- then it represents disjunction. We have often times seen mention of the bride and bridegroom sounding joyously versus sounding no longer as representing this contrast between conjunction and disjunction. This is to remind people that this Full vs Empty symbolism is to be watched for throughout scriptu...