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1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:1 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].
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.3
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 honor not me, saith the LORD (of hosts)[2].
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 storehouse4, 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 devourer5 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 honored 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 honored 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.
Read: Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 7:27;
Note: Sabaoth - Read: Nag Hammadi
Read: 2 Esdras 16:73; Revelation 3:17-18
Definition: a place where things are stored
Read: 1 Peter 5:7, 8
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