MALACHI - Chapter 3

"Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Master, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming," says YAHWEH of hosts.

"But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to YAHWEH offerings in righteousness. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to YAHWEH as in the days of old and as in former years.

"Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me," says YAHWEH of hosts.

"For I, YAHWEH, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says YAHWEH of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

"Will a man rob Elohim? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you! Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this," says YAHWEH of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows.

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

"All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land," says YAHWEH of hosts. "Your words have been arrogant against Me," says YAHWEH. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against You?' You have said, 'It is vain to serve Elohim; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before YAHWEH of hosts? 'So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test Elohim and escape.'"

Then those who feared YAHWEH spoke to one another, and YAHWEH gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear YAHWEH and who esteem His name. "They will be Mine," says YAHWEH of hosts, "on the day that I prepare My own 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 one who serves Elohim and one who does not serve Him.

Chapter 4

"For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says YAHWEH of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch." But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says YAHWEH of hosts.

"Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. Behold, I am going to send you Eliyah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of YAHWEH. He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse."

HalleluYah!