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NASB | Malachi 4:2 "But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Malachi 4:2 "But for you who fear My name [with awe-filled reverence] the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go forward and leap [joyfully] like calves [released] from the stall. |
Subject: God being lonely? |
Bible Note: The last book in the Hebrew canon is 2 Chronicles wherein some glimmer of hope is given after seventy years of prophesied Israel's deportation and desolation in the land. But with that hope came 400 years of silence; no prophets arose, no judges arose. The poem is sad and although I cannot approve of its theological implications, that it portrays, however faulty, a feeling of divine loneliness for man's fellowship that is real cannot be altogether ignored; not that God needs us but he does desire us. So strong is that desire that it verges, from a human perspective, on need; such a divine longing that he sacrificed his most valued intimate in order to gain sinful men and women. Although, I'm not sure I understand the question, I would venture to say that the God characterized in this poem is foreign to Biblical revelation. If anything, it reflects the poets assumption that God is as lonely as he is and characterizes, not God, but the poets own loneliness. Allow me to switch the poem around: I am Man - "Without one friend, Alone in my impurity Until I'm dead. Above me divine love Like eagles freely soar - But I am only Man - Nailed to the floor. Spring! Life is love! (Although this love is phoney!) Better is Human love Than God's who left me lonely." |
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