Malachi 3
God challenges: return to Me and I will return to you. Bring the full tithe and test Me, I will open heaven's floodgates of blessing. I the Lord do not change, therefore you are not consumed.
MalachiChapter 3 of 418 versesBerean Standard Bible
In this passage: Jerusalem
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“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
I will send my messenger ahead of you — John the Baptist
“As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.””
Read Mark 1:2›This is the one about whom it is written — John prepares the way
“This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’”
Read Matthew 11:10›I will send my messenger ahead of you to prepare your way
“This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’”
Read Luke 7:27›I will send my messenger ahead of you to prepare your way
“As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.””
Read Mark 1:2›But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.
“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says the LORD of Hosts.
“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Read next
How to Hear God’s Voice: A Practical Guide for BelieversScripture is the record of a God who speaks. This guide covers how to hear Him today and keep what He says.Cross-references for Malachi 3
“God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?”
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
“Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;”
“Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.”
Cross-references from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY.
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