I Will Send My Messenger
(Matthew 11:7–19; Luke 7:24–35)
“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. 1 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. Mal 4:5Luk 1:76Mrk 1:2-3Isa 63:9Luk 7:26-28Mat 11:10-11Act 19:4Mal 2:7
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. Zec 13:91Co 3:13-15Isa 4:41Pe 2:7-8Rev 6:17Luk 21:36Luk 3:17Psa 2:7
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. Isa 1:25Pro 17:3Zec 13:9Heb 12:10Dan 12:10Eph 5:26-27Psa 66:10Tit 2:14
Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by. 2Ch 7:1-3Isa 56:7Zec 8:3Ezk 20:40-41Ezk 43:26-27Jer 30:18-201Ch 15:261Ch 16:1-3
“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. Jas 5:8-9Heb 13:4Deu 5:11Jas 5:4Deu 27:19Mal 2:14Gal 5:19-211Co 6:9-10
Robbing God
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed. Num 23:19Heb 13:8Jas 1:17Lam 3:22-23Jer 32:27Isa 40:28-31Rom 8:28-32Exo 3:14-15 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. Zec 1:3Rom 10:21Jas 4:8Deu 31:20Rom 10:3Hos 14:1Isa 55:6-7Jer 3:12-14
“But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! Pro 3:9-10Mat 22:21Mrk 12:17Psa 29:2Luk 20:25Mal 1:13Num 18:21-32Jos 7:11
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. Deu 28:15-19Hag 1:6-11Hag 2:14-17Mal 2:2Jos 22:20Isa 43:28Jos 7:12-13 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. 2 2Co 9:6-8Mat 6:33Pro 3:9-10Psa 37:3Deu 28:12Lev 27:30Neh 13:10-13Neh 12:44 I will rebuke the devourer 3for 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. Deu 11:14Jol 2:22Zec 8:12Jol 1:4Amo 7:1-3Jol 2:20Amo 4:9Jer 8:13
“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says the LORD of Hosts. Isa 61:9Isa 62:4Zec 8:23Luk 1:48Jer 33:92Ch 32:23Dan 11:41Dan 8:9
The Book of Remembrance
“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ Mal 2:17Isa 37:23Rom 9:202Th 2:4Mal 1:6-82Ch 32:14-19Exo 5:2Jer 8:12
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? Isa 58:3Psa 73:8-13Job 35:3Zep 1:12Zec 7:3-6Job 34:9Jol 2:12Job 22:17 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’” Jer 12:1-2Job 21:7-15Mal 2:17Mal 4:1Job 22:23Mat 4:6-71Pe 5:5Act 12:21
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. Rev 20:12Psa 56:8Mal 4:2Rev 15:4Isa 26:31Th 5:11Heb 10:24Heb 4:12-13
“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. Exo 19:5Deu 7:62Co 6:18Isa 62:3-4Jer 32:38-39Rom 8:321Pe 2:9Deu 26:17-18 So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.” Mat 25:46Gen 18:25Psa 58:10-11Jos 24:15Mal 3:14-15Act 27:23Jer 12:15Jhn 12:26