Malachi 3:2

Abide — Who shall be able to stand under the weight of those crosses which in that day, will fall on all sorts of men? The day — This day was from his preaching, 'till the utter destruction of Jerusalem, about seventy years after the birth of Christ. A refiner's fire — Some are like metals, which nothing but a fierce fire can purge, such fire shall the troubles of these days be. Fuller's soap — As boiling waters, into which, spotted cloaths are thrown, and as the rubbing of them with soap; so that day will prove to all, a day of great trial, to purge and refine.