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Malachi 3

The Purifier

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aBehold, I am going to send  bMy  1messenger, and he will  2 cclear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple;  3and the  1 dmessenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming," says the LORD of hosts.

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"But who can  aendure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a  brefiner's fire and like  1fullers' soap.

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"He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will  apurify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may  bpresent to the LORD  1offerings in righteousness.

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"Then the  1offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be  apleasing to the LORD as in the  bdays of old and as in former years.

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"Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the  asorcerers and against the  badulterers and against those who  cswear falsely, and against those who oppress the  dwage earner in his wages, the  ewidow and the  1orphan, and those who turn aside the  2 falien and do not  3fear Me," says the LORD of hosts.

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"For  1I, the LORD,  ado not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob,  2are not consumed.

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"From the  adays of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them.  bReturn to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. "But you say, `How shall we return?'

You Have Robbed God

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"Will a man  1rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, `How have we robbed You?' In  atithes and  2offerings.

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"You are  acursed with a curse, for you are  1robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

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aBring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be  1food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not  bopen for you the windows of heaven and  cpour out for you a blessing until  2 dit overflows.

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"Then I will rebuke the  adevourer for you, so that it will not  1destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes," says the LORD of hosts.

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aAll the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a  bdelightful land," says the LORD of hosts.

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"Your words have been  1arrogant against Me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, `What have we spoken against You?'

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"You have said, `It is  avain to serve God; and what  bprofit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

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`So now we  acall the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and  bescape.' "

The Book of Remembrance

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Then those who  1feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD  agave attention and heard it, and a  bbook of remembrance was written before Him for those who  1fear the LORD and who esteem His name.

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"They will be  aMine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the  bday that I  1prepare My  2 cown possession, and I will  3spare them as a man  3 dspares his own son who serves him."

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So you will again  adistinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.



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