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The Sun of righteousness? (Malachi 4:2)

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LittleBear:
As I understand it:

As the sun is to the earth, so is the Son to His elect. The earth cannot survive without the sun, all life would die, so the elect cannot live without Christ spiritually, they would die. The sun is a type or parable. Just because the pagan religions used it does not make it any less of a wonderful analogy.

Ursula

ciy:
I have an acquaintance that really looks at all facets of religions.  He says that there was a sect of people at some time that said that the word Israel was supposed to be spoken as a question.  In other words, "Is Ra El?"  then he said the reply would be "El Ra Is." 
This is a liitle out there but it has always amazed me that the word Israel was set up to be able to be done this way.  Also El was El Elyon, Ra was the Egyptian sun god, and Is was Issis which was a pagan god. 
I just added this because it is interesting, not anything but a pagan belief.
CIY

mari_et_pere:
Ursula, that's awesome. I hadn't put that together. The sun is to the earth, sustaining life, as the Son is to us, sustaining righteousness.

CIY, that's interesting. I've never heard of that before! I'm not sure about all that though. Them back then, speaking Israel is a question wouldn't sound like that. "Is" in a question? Hebrew and Greek didn't even have a word for "is" in that sense. Makes me wonder what sect of people it was.

Matt

jER:
Matt,

Yes, interesting, however, the questions were not regarding the entire verse in Malachi. I wonder - what has been added, or taken from this Book?

There is much contrasting in the Scriptures: i.e. Light (truth)/darkness (falsehood); good (right)/evil (wrong), but, SUN/SON is a compari-son.  Then, there is the Egyptian holy trinity (triad), designed to hide the truth, or comparison? All throughout the Bible - we find GOD pleading with the nation of "Israel" to stop this horrible practice of worshiping these blood thirsty-false gods. They refused! Although, nothing happens by chance.

However - thanks All for your perspectives (points) which are well taken.

- Jer

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