Behold, I Send My Messenger, And He Will Prepare The Way Before Me; Robbery And Remembrance
Malachi 3 KJV
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Abraham Sends Hagar And Ishmael Away Moses And Aaron Appear Before Pharaoh Zedekiah's Sons Are Slaughtered Before His Eyes Abraham Sends Away Ishmael Sending Out Disciples Jesus Before Pilate Trial Before Felix Paul Before Agrippa Jesus Before The Council Esther Before The King Whole World Guilty Before God Sending Out The Twelve Who Will Be Greatest? Paul Before Felix Noah Sends Forth A Raven And Then A Dove Isaac Sends Esau For Venison Rebekah Disappoints Him, By Sending Jacob Away Isaac Blesses Jacob, And Sends Him To Padan-Aram He Sends A Present To Esau, And Passes The Brook Jabbok Jacob Sends Him To His Brothers, Who Counsel To Slay Him Jacob Sends His Ten Sons To Buy Grain In Egypt Jacob Refuses To Send Benjamin Jacob Is Persuaded To Send Benjamin They Are Brought Before Joseph He Sends For His Father Joseph Presents His Father, And Five Of His Brothers Before Pharaoh He Prefers The Younger Before The Elder He Sends Him To Deliver Israel God Threatens To Send Locusts God Send Them For Water To The Rock In Horeb People Are Prepared Against The Third Day, For The Giving Of The Law Or A Vow, Or A Free Will Offering People That Would Invade The Land Against The Will Of God Are Smitten Briefly Rehearsing The History Of God's Sending Them From Horeb Of Sending The Spies To Search The Land For The Assuredness Of Victory Which God Will Give Over Them Blessing And Curse Set Before Them Tithes And Firstborns To Be Eaten Before The Lord All Are Presented Before The Lord To Enter Into His Covenant Death And Life Are Set Before Them God Sends Him Up To Mount Nebo To See The Land, And To Die Joshua Prepares The People To Pass Over Jordan Joshua's Exhortation Before His Death An Angel Sends Gideon For Their Deliverance In Their Misery God Sends Them To Their False Gods Danites Send Five Men To Seek Out An Inheritance He Divides Her Into Twelve Pieces, And Sends Them To The Twelve Tribes He Sends Her Away With Six Measures Of Barley After Seven Months The Philistines Take Counsel How To Send Back The Ark They Send To Them Of Kiriath Jearim To Fetch It
