Malachi 3:2

Malachi 3:2

The Coming Messenger

1 “Behold, ^aI send My messenger,
And he will ^bprepare the way before Me.
And the Lord, whom you seek,
Will suddenly come to His temple,
^cEven the Messenger of the covenant,
In whom you delight.
Behold, ^dHe is coming,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

2 “But who can endure ^athe day of His coming?
And ^bwho can stand when He appears?
For ^cHe is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.

3 ^aHe will sit as a refiner and¹ a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And purge them as gold and silver,
That they may ^boffer to the Lord
An offering in righteousness.

4 “Then ^athe offering of Judah and Jerusalem
Will be¹ pleasant to the Lord,
As in the days of old,
As in former years.

5 And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
^aAgainst perjurers,
Against those who ^bexploit wage earners and ^cwidows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

6 “For I am the Lord, ^aI do not change;
^bTherefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.

7 Yet from the days of ^ayour fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
^bReturn to Me, and I will return to you,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
^c“But you said,
‘In what way shall we return?’

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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(Malachi 4:1; Revelation 6:16-17). The Messiah would come, not, as they expected, to flatter the theocratic nation's prejudices, but to subject their principles to the fiery test of His heart-searching truth (Matthew 3:10-12), and to destroy Jerusalem and the theocracy after they had rejected Him. His mission is here regarded as a whole from the first to the second advent: the process of refining and separating the godly from the ungodly beginning during Christ's stay on earth, going on ever since, and about to continue till the final separation (Mat. 25:31-46). The refining process, whereby a third of the Jews is refined as silver of its dross, while two-thirds perish, is described, Zechariah 13:8-9 (compare Isaiah 1:25).

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Malachi 3:2:**

Psalms 130:3
Isaiah 4:4
Isaiah 6:6
Daniel 9:26
Malachi 4:1
Matthew 3:12
Mark 9:49
John 15:3
1 Corinthians 3:15

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