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Verse Malachi 3:5. _I WILL COME NEAR TO YOU TO JUDGMENT_] And what
fearful cases does he get to judge! _Sorcerers, adulterers, false
swearers,_ _defrauders of the wages_ of the _hireling, oppressors_...
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AND I WILL COME NEAR TO YOU TO JUDGMENT - They had clamored for the
coming of “the God of judgment;” God assures them that He will
come to judgment, which they had desired, but far other than they loo...
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4. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MESSENGER AND THE DAY OF THE LORD
CHAPTER 3:1-6
In this chapter and in the next we have the prophecies of Malachi as
to the Messiah and His forerunner. The last verse of th...
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MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:6. THE COMING OF JUDGMENT. This passage is
addressed to those of the prophet's contemporaries who were so
perplexed by the state of things around them that they had become
sc...
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AND. WILL COME NEAR YOU TO JUDGMENT.
Their various sins are catalogued and denounced: Sorcery, adultery,
perjury and oppression. The last sill was shown in injustice to the
hireling, the widow, the or...
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_to judgment_ This is the answer to the challenge of the people at
large, "Where is the God of _judgment_?" The "messenger" shall be
sent. The Lord of the temple shall suddenly follow him (Malachi 3:1...
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_THE MESSENGER AND THE MESSIAH -- MALACHI 3:1-5:_ Messiah would come.
However, before His coming there would be one to prepare His way.
Malachi wrote, "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall p...
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AND I WILL BE A SWIFT WITNESS AGAINST THE SORCERERS— God tells them,
that he will hasten the day of his vengeance, and that it shall come
speedily upon those whose sins are become epidemical; and if t...
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CHAPTER XLV
THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD
THE LORD WILL SEND A MESSENGER TO PREPARE FOR HIS DAY. Malachi 2:17 to
Malachi 3:6.
RV. Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have
we we...
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Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the
LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
THEN SHALL THE OFFERING OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM BE PLEASANT UNTO THE
LORD, AS...
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The Speedy Judgment
1. This v. is closely connected with the preceding. It is the answer
to the question, 'Where is the God of judgment?' The messenger is
evidently a prophet or a succession of pro...
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MY *MESSENGER
MALACHI
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 3
V1 ‘Look at me! I will send my *messenger. He will prepare the way
for me. Then, suddenly, the *Lord that you are looking for will come
to his...
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REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (MALACHI 2:17 TO
MALACHI 3:18).
(17) A new section of the prophecy begins with this verse. The prophet
now directs his reproofs against the people...
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All these crimes were explicitly forbidden by the Law. Sorcery (Exodus
22:18), adultery (Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22), f
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וְ קָרַבְתִּ֣י אֲלֵיכֶם֮ לַ †
מִּשְׁפָּט֒ וְ...
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Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1
PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW
"MALACHI" 1-4
BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of
"Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...
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5. "WHERE IS THE GOD OF JUDGMENT?"
Malachi 2:17; Malachi 3:1
In this section "Malachi" turns from the sinners of his people to
those who weary Jehovah with the complaint that sin is successful, or,
a...
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A PURGING FROM EVIL
Malachi 3:1-12
The opening verses of this chapter stir the heart like the call of a
trumpet. We remember how literally they were fulfilled in the
presentation of our Lord in the T...
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The last division of the Book contains the prophet's announcement of
the coming of Messiah. It falls into three sections, one dealing with
the coming One, one dealing with the Coming Day, and one utte...
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_Judgment. He has answered (ver. 1, 2) the complaint of the Jews,
chap. ii. 17. (Haydock) --- This he does here (Menochius) more
pointedly. (Haydock) --- Christ condemned the world, as his spirit did...
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This verse seems to stand by itself, and is indeed most awful to all
the enemies of God and of his Christ!...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of
the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and
Daniel, and in a me...
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Here the Prophet retorts the complaints which the Jews had previously
made. There is here then a counter-movement when he says, _I will draw
nigh to you_; for they provoked God by this slander — that...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4.
The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the
captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral
condition of...
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AND I WILL COME NEAR TO YOU TO JUDGMENT,.... And so will manifestly
appear to be the God of judgment they asked after, Malachi 2:17 this
is not to be understood of Christ's coming to judgment at the l...
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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 [hi...
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_And I will come near to you to judgment_ In answer to their demand,
_Where is the God of judgment? Malachi 2:17_, God here tells them that
he will hasten the time of judgment, and it shall come speed...
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And I will come near to you to judgment, namely, the judgment of wrath
upon the wicked; AND I WILL BE A SWIFT WITNESS AGAINST THE SORCERERS,
the transgressors of the First and Second Commandments, AND...
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THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD.
Jehovah's Messenger and the Angel of the Covenant....
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Malachi 3:5; Malachi 3:5
oppress:
Or, defraud
Malachi 3:5; Malachi 3:5
pour you out:
_ Heb._ empty out...
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1-6 The first words of this chapter seem an answer to the scoffers of
those days. Here is a prophecy of the appearing of John the Baptist.
He is Christ's harbinger. He shall prepare the way before hi...
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AND I; either God the Father, or Christ the Messiah, to whom the
Father hath committed all judgment, 1 THESSALONIANS 5:22. WILL COME
NEAR; you have spoken as if you thought I was far off, but by what...
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Malachi 3:5 near H7126 (H8804) judgment H4941 swift H4116 (H8764)
witness H5707 sorcerers H3784 (H8764) adulterers...
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THE COMING ACTIVITY OF GOD (MALACHI 3:1)
The question, ‘Where is the God of Justice?' (Malachi 2:17) was
obviously a two-edged one, but it is questionable whether the people
of Judah wanted God to be...
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Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare
the way before me:_
The name Malachi means «my messenger.» The reference here is, of
course, to John the Baptist, who was to prepa...
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CONTENTS: Mission of John the Baptist, and Christ's first advent
foretold. Israel exhorted to return to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Malachi, John the Baptist.
CONCLUSION: Those who deny God His pa...
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Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the
way before me._ John the baptist, as our Saviour himself expounds this
passage. Matthew 11:7.
_The Lord whom ye seek,_ and for whom...
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_I will come near to you to Judgment._
A DIVINE THREATENING
God comes near to men when He manifests Himself to their spiritual
consciousness. He may do this by His truth, by the circumstances which...
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_Behold, I will send My messenger._
MESSIAH’S MESSENGER
The coming of the Messiah was in the time of the world’s deepest
wants. As in all instances of national degeneracy, two special causes
bore th...
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MALACHI—NOTE ON MALACHI 3:2 When the Lord comes, he will purify some
sinners (vv. Malachi 3:2) and judge others (v. Malachi 3:5
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CRITICAL NOTES.] MESSENGER] The prophet, in first instance; applied to
the Baptist (Matthew 11:10; Luke 7:27). PREPARE] Clear away, like a
pioneer before an Eastern prince. SUDDENLY] Unexpectedly.
MAL...
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EXPOSITION
MALACHI 3:1
BEHOLD, I WILL SEND (_I send_) MY MESSENGER. God answers that he is
coming to show himself the God of judgment and justice. Are they ready
to meet him and to bear his sentence?...
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Now the promise of the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner to
Jesus Christ.
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before
me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenl...
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1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:6;
Deuteronomy 24:14;...
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VITAL QUESTIONS
Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response,
instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...
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THE TITHE CHAPTER
Malachi 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
When one reads the Book of Malachi he would think that the Holy Spirit
was writing a message to the churches of the twentieth century,
especially to...
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I will come near — You have spoken as if you thought I was far off,
but you shall see I am near. To you — O Jews, not those very persons
Malachi preached to, but those who were living when the Messiah...