Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: 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. Mal 4:5Luk 1:76Mrk 1:2-3Isa 63:9Luk 7:26-28Mat 11:10-11Act 19:4Mal 2:7 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: Zec 13:91Co 3:13-15Isa 4:41Pe 2:7-8Rev 6:17Luk 21:36Luk 3:17Psa 2:7 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. Isa 1:25Pro 17:3Zec 13:9Heb 12:10Dan 12:10Eph 5:26-27Psa 66:10Tit 2:14 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 1 2Ch 7:1-3Isa 56:7Zec 8:3Ezk 20:40-41Ezk 43:26-27Jer 30:18-201Ch 15:261Ch 16:1-3 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 fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. 2 Jas 5:8-9Heb 13:4Deu 5:11Jas 5:4Deu 27:19Mal 2:14Gal 5:19-211Co 6:9-10 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Num 23:19Heb 13:8Jas 1:17Lam 3:22-23Jer 32:27Isa 40:28-31Rom 8:28-32Exo 3:14-15
¶ 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? Zec 1:3Rom 10:21Jas 4:8Deu 31:20Rom 10:3Hos 14:1Isa 55:6-7Jer 3:12-14
¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Pro 3:9-10Mat 22:21Mrk 12:17Psa 29:2Luk 20:25Mal 1:13Num 18:21-32Jos 7:11 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Deu 28:15-19Hag 1:6-11Hag 2:14-17Mal 2:2Jos 22:20Isa 43:28Jos 7:12-13 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, 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. 3 2Co 9:6-8Mat 6:33Pro 3:9-10Psa 37:3Deu 28:12Lev 27:30Neh 13:10-13Neh 12:44 And I will rebuke the devourer 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. 4 Deu 11:14Jol 2:22Zec 8:12Jol 1:4Amo 7:1-3Jol 2:20Amo 4:9Jer 8:13 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. Isa 61:9Isa 62:4Zec 8:23Luk 1:48Jer 33:92Ch 32:23Dan 11:41Dan 8:9
¶ Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Mal 2:17Isa 37:23Rom 9:202Th 2:4Mal 1:6-82Ch 32:14-19Exo 5:2Jer 8:12 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? 5 6 Isa 58:3Psa 73:8-13Job 35:3Zep 1:12Zec 7:3-6Job 34:9Jol 2:12Job 22:17 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 7 Jer 12:1-2Job 21:7-15Mal 2:17Mal 4:1Job 22:23Mat 4:6-71Pe 5:5Act 12:21
¶ Then they that feared 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 feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. Rev 20:12Psa 56:8Mal 4:2Rev 15:4Isa 26:31Th 5:11Heb 10:24Heb 4:12-13 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. 8 Exo 19:5Deu 7:62Co 6:18Isa 62:3-4Jer 32:38-39Rom 8:321Pe 2:9Deu 26:17-18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Mat 25:46Gen 18:25Psa 58:10-11Jos 24:15Mal 3:14-15Act 27:23Jer 12:15Jhn 12:26