Malachi 3:17
17“They will belong to me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. ▼▼sn The Hebrew word
סְגֻלָּה (
segullah, “special property”) is a technical term referring to all the recipients of God’s redemptive grace, especially Israel (
Exod 19:5;
Deut 7:6;
14:2;
26:18). The
Lord says here that he will not forget even one individual in the day of judgment and reward.
I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.