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Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> a proper offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> as in former times and years past.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all.</p> <p class="title">Resistance to the Lord through Selfishness</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Since, I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>From the days of your ancestors you have ignored my commandments and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say, ‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions! <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me – this whole nation is guilty.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all.</p> <p class="title">Resistance to the Lord through Self-sufficiency</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You have criticized me sharply,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all? <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then those who respected the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> spoke to one another, and the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and honored his name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“They will belong to me,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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