Malachi 2:1-17 Dealing Wickedly with the Wife of Your Youth

 

Dealing Wickedly with the Wife of Your Youth

Malachi 2:1-17    The Book of Malachi [in Smaller Chunks]

O you priests, & now this commandment is for you. [Malachi 1:6-7 A son honors his father, & a servant, his master. Then, if I Am a Father, where is [My] honor? And if I Am a master, where is My fear [respect?] The Lord of Hosts [said] [this] to you, O priests, [who] despise My Name.

And you say, [How] have we despised Your Name? You offer [defiled] bread upon [My] altar, & you say, [How] have we [defiled] You? [Because,] you say, The table of the Lord is contemptible, [a.k.a. detestable.]

The Lord of Hosts says, If you won't hear & won't [take] it to heart, to give glory to My Name, I will even send a curse upon you. And I will curse your blessings. [Yes,] I have already cursed them, because you don't [take] it to heart.

[Deuteronomy 28:14-15 And you shall not go [astray] to the right hand or to the left, from any of the Words [that] I command you this day, & go after other gods to serve them.

But it shall [happen,] if you won't [listen] to the voice of the Lord your God, to [obey] & do all His commandments, & His [mandates,] that I command you this day, that all these curses shall come upon you, & overtake you.]

[Watch,] I will corrupt your seed, & spread [feces] upon your faces even the [feces from] your solemn feasts. And [someone] will take you away with [the feces.]

And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, [so] that My covenant [contract] might be with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts. My covenant was with him [for:] life & peace. And I gave them to him, for the fear [respect with which] he feared Me, & was afraid before My Name.

[Ezekiel 34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, & will cause the [wild animals,] to [stop] out of the land. And they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, & sleep in the woods.]

The Law of Truth was in his mouth, & [sinfulness] wasn't found on his lips. He [followed] with Me, in peace & equity, & [turned] away many from [sinfulness.] For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, & they should seek the Law, [from] his mouth. For he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

[Galatians 4:14 And [in] my temptations, which [were] in my flesh, you [didn't despise,] nor [reject,] but received me [like] an Angel of God, even [like] Christ Jesus [receives.]

But you [have] departed & [gone astray] [from] the [path,] & have caused many to stumble [in] the Law. You have [distorted] the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.

[Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there, [those, who] hold [to] the doctrine, [a.k.a. teaching,] of Balaam, who taught [Balack,] to cast a stumbling block before the children [people] of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, & to commit fornication, [a.k.a. infidelity.]

Therefore, I have also made you contemptible, & [lowly in front of] all people, [since] you haven't kept My ways, but have [shown favoritism,] in the Law. [Deuteronomy 1:17 You shall not respect, [a.k.a. show favoritism to] persons in judgment; but you shall hear the [powerless,] as well as the [powerful.]

You shall not be afraid of the face of [a] man, for the judgment is God's. And [if] the [case] is too hard for you, bring it to me, & I will hear it.]

Haven't we all One Father? [Hasn't] One God created us? Why do we, every man, [behave] treacherously, against his brother, by [defiling] the covenant [contract] of our [forefathers?]

[Ephesian 4:4-7 There is One body, & One Spirit, even [like] you are [all] called in One hope of your calling; One Lord, One faith, One baptism, One God & Father of all, [Who] is above all, & through all, & in you all. But everyone of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.]

Judah has [behaved] treacherously, & Israel & Jerusalem, [have] committed an abomination. For Judah has [defiled] the holiness of the Lord, [Whom] he loved, & has married the daughter of a [foreign] god. [1 Kings 11:3-4 And he, [a.k.a. Solomon,] had 700 hundred wives, & princesses, & 300  [mistresses.]

And his wives turned away his heart. For it [happened,] when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart wasn't perfect with the Lord his God, [like] the heart was, of David, his father.]

The Lord will cut off the man, the master, & the scholar, [who] does this, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel,] & him, [who offers a sacrifice] to the Lord of Hosts.

And you have done this again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, weeping, & crying out, [because] He [doesn't] regard, [a.k.a. respect,] the offering anymore, [nor receives] it [from] your [hands] with goodwill. [Still,] you say, [For what reason?]

Because the Lord has been [a] witness between you & the wife of your youth, against whom, you have [behaved] treacherously. [Still,] she is your companion, & the wife of your covenant [contract.] And didn't He make [them] one?

[Matthew 19:4-5 And He answered & said to them, Haven't you read, that He, [Who] made them [in] the beginning, made them male & female, & said, For this [reason,] man shall leave [his] father & mother, & shall [cling] to his wife. And they [two] shall be one flesh.]

[Since,] He had Spirit [remaining, why] [just] one? [So,] that He may seek a godly seed, [a.k.a. Offspring.] Therefore, [pay attention] to your spirit, & let [no one behave] treacherously against the wife of his youth.

For the Lord, the God of Israel, says that He [hates] putting away, [a.k.a. divorce, for [someone] covers [up] his violence, [like] with his garment, says the Lord of Hosts. [Matthew 5:31-32 It has been said, [Whoever] shall put away his wife, let him give her a [written certificate of divorce.]

But I say to you, That [whoever] shall put away his wife, [except] for the [reason] of fornication, [a.k.a. infidelity,] causes her to commit adultery. And [whoever] shall marry her, [who] is divorced, commits adultery.]

Therefore, [pay attention] to your spirit, [so] that you don't [behave] treacherously. You have [tired] the Lord with your words. [Still,] you say, [How] have we [tired] Him?

When you say, Everyone [who] does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, & He delights in them; or, Where is the God of [Justice?] [Psalm 94:7 [Still,] they say, The Lord shall not see, & neither shall the God of Jacob regard, [a.k.a. pay attention to] it.]

Malachi 1:1-14 Offering Sick & Disfigured Animals to the Lord God

 

Offering Sick & Disfigured Animals to the Lord God

Malachi 1:1-14    The Book of Malachi [in Smaller Chunks]

The burden, [a.k.a. vision,] of the [Lord's] Word to Israel by Malachi. The Lord says, I have loved you. [Still,] you say, [How] have you loved us? Wasn't Esau, Jacob's brother? The Lord says, [Still,] I loved Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel.]

[Deuteronomy 7:6-8 For unto the Lord your God, you are [a] holy people. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a special people, unto Himself, above all people, [who] are upon the [surface] of the earth. The Lord didn't [focus] His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people.

For you [had] the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you, & because He would keep the oath, [that] He had sworn to your [forefathers,] the Lord [has] brought you out with a mighty hand, & has redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, & from the hand of Pharaoh, [Egypt's] king.]

And I [have] hated Esau, & laid [to] waste: his mountains, & his heritage for the [jackals] of the wilderness. [Since,] Edom [says,] We are impoverished, [a.k.a. poor,] but we will return, & [rebuild] the desolate places. The Lord of Hosts says [this;] They shall [rebuild,] but I will throw [it] down.

And they shall call them: The Border of Wickedness, & The People Against Whom, The Lord [is] Forever [Indignant, a.k.a. angry over unfair treatment.] Your eyes shall see, & you shall say, The Lord will be magnified from [beyond] the border of Israel.

A son honors his father, & a servant [honors] his master. Then, if I Am a Father, where is [My] honor? And if I Am a master, where is My fear [respect?] The Lord of Hosts [said] [this] to you, O priests, [who] despise My Name. And you say, [How] have we despised Your Name?

You offer [defiled] bread upon [My] altar, & you say, [How] have we [defiled] You? [Because,] you say, The table of the Lord is contemptible, [a.k.a. detestable.] [Leviticus 22:19-22 You shall offer [of] you own [free] will: a male without blemish, of: [cattle,] sheep, or goats.

But you shall not offer, [whatever] has a blemish, for it shall not be acceptable for you. And [whoever] offers a sacrifice of Peace Offerings to the Lord to [fulfill] his vow, or a freewill offering [of: cattle,] or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted.

There shall be no blemish [within it.] You shall not offer these to the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to the Lord, [the:] blind, broken, maimed, having an [oozing sore,] scurvy, or scabbed.]

And if you offer the blind for [your] sacrifice, isn't it evil? And if you offer the lame & sick, isn't it evil? The Lord of Hosts says, [If you] offer it to your governor, will he be pleased with you, or accept you? And now, I pray [that] you [urge] God, that He will be gracious to us.

This has been [done] by your [own hands.] The Lord of Hosts says, Will He regard, [a.k.a. respect,] you? Even among you, who is ther, [who] would shut the doors for nothing, [a.k.a. no pay?] Neither do you [start] the fire on [My] altar for [nothing.]

The Lord of Hosts says, I have no pleasure in you, & neither will I accept an offering [from] your [hands.] [1 Corinthians 9:13 Don't you know that [those, who] minister about holy things, live [off] the things, [a.k.a. food sacrificed,] of the temple? And [those, who] wait at the altar are [also] partakers with the [food at the] altar?]

From [sunrise,] even to [sundown,] of the same [day,] My Name shall be great among the Gentiles, & in every place incense shall be offered & a pure, [a.k.a. Holy,] offering to My Name. For My Name shall be great among the heathen, says the Lord of Hosts.

[Romans 15:9-12 And [so] that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; [like] it is written, For this [reason,] I will confess to You among the Gentiles, & sing to Your Name.

And again, He says, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with His people. And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, & [honor] Him, all you people. *And again, [Isaiah said,] There shall be a root of Jesse, & He, [Who] shall rise to [rule] over the Gentiles; & the Gentiles shall trust in Him.]

But you have [defiled] it, in that you say, The table of the Lord is [defiled;] & [its] fruit, & even His meat, is contemptible, [a.k.a. disgusting.] Also, you said, [See, how tiresome this] is! The Lord of Hosts says, And you have [scoffed] at it. And you brought [what] was: torn, lame, & sick.

[Like this,] you brought an offering. The Lord says, Should I accept this [from] your [hands?] But cursed [is] the deceiver, [who has] a male in his flock, & vows, & sacrifices a [defiled] thing to the Lord. For I Am a great King, says the Lord of Hosts. And My Name is dreadful among the heathen.

[John 10:14-16 I Am the Good Shepherd, & know My sheep, & Am known [by] Mine. [Like] the Father knows Me, even I [also] know the Father, & I lay down My life for the sheep. And I have other sheep, [that] are not of this [flock.] I must also bring them, & they shall hear My Voice, & there shall be one [flock,] & One Shepherd.]

Zechariah 14:1-21 Foretelling the Day of the Lord God

 

Foretelling the Day of the Lord God

Zechariah 14:1-21         The Book of Zechariah [in Smaller Chunks]

[Watch,] the day of the Lord comes, & your [plunder] shall be divided in your midst. [Joel 2:1-3 You, blow the trumpet in Zion, & sound the alarm in My Holy Mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord comes, for it is [close] at hand.

A day of darkness, & gloominess. A day of clouds, & thick darkness. A [large] & strong people, spread upon the mountains, [like] the morning [spreads out.] There hasn't been, [similar,] & neither shall [there] ever be [again,] after it, even [for] many generations.

A fire devours [in front of] them. And behind them, a flame burns. The land is [like] the Garden of Eden, [in front of] them, & behind them [is] a desolate wilderness. [Yes,] & nothing shall escape [from] them.]

For I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem, &  the city shall be [captured,] & the house [ransacked,] & the women ravished. And half of the city shall go into captivity, & the [rest] of the people, shall not be cut off from the city.

[Joel 3:1-2 For, [look,] in those days, & [during] that time, when I shall [return] again, [those from] captivity, [from:] Judah & Jerusalem. I will also gather all nations, & will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, & will plead with them there for My people, & for My heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, & [divided] My land.]

Then, the Lord shall go [out,] & fight against those nations, [like] when He fought [on] the day of battle. [2 Chronicles 32:19-22 And for this [reason,] king Hezekiah, & the prophet, Isaiah, [Amos'] son, prayed & cried [out] to heaven. And the Lord sent an Angel, [who] cut off all the: mighty men of valor; leaders; & captains in the camp of [Assyria's] king.

So, [Sennacherib,] returned to his own land, with shame [on his] face. And when he [had] come into the house of his god, [those, who] came [from] his own bowels, [a.k.a. his family, struck] him there with the sword.

[Like this,] the Lord saved Hezekiah, & the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Senacherib, [Assyria's] king, & from the hand of all [others,] & guided [the Israelites] on every side.]

And that day, His feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives, [that] is [in front of] Jerusalem, on the East. And the Mount of Olives shall [split] in the [middle of it] toward the East & toward the West. And there shall be a very [large] valley. And half of the mountain shall [move] toward the North, and half toward the South.

[Revelation 6:12-14 And I [saw] when He had opened the 6th seal, & [looked] & there was a [large] earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth [made] of hair, & the moon became [like] blood.

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even [like] a fig tree casts her [unripened] figs, when she is shaken [by] a mighty wind. And the heaven departed [like] a scroll when it is rolled together. And every mountain & island were moved out of their places.]

And you shall flee to the valley [in] the mountains. For the valley [in] the mountains shall reach [all the way to] Azal. [Yes,] you shall flee, like you fled from [in front of] the earthquake [during] the days of Uzziah, [Judah's] king. And the Lord my God shall come, & all the saints with You.

[Matthew 24:30-31 And then, the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in heaven. And then, the tribes of the earth shall mourn, & they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power & great glory.

And He shall send His Angels with a great trumpet sound. And they shall gather together His elect, [a.k.a. chosen,] from the 4 winds, from one end of heaven to the other.]

And it shall [happen on] that day, that the light shall not be [sunny,] nor dark. No day, nor night: but it shall [happen] [that] at [evening,] it shall be light. But it shall [happen] one day, [that] shall be [only] known to the Lord.

[Revelation 21:22-26 And I saw no temple [there:] for the Lord God Almighty & the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither [for] the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God did lighten it, & the Lamb is the light [of it.]

And [those, who] are saved, [from] the nations, shall walk in the light of it. And the kings of the earth, bring their glory & honor into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory & honor of the nations into it.]

And it shall be [on] that day, that Living Waters shall go out from Jerusalem. Half of them toward the [Eastern] Sea, [a.k.a. Dead Sea,] & half toward the [Western] Sea, [a.k.a. Mediterranean Sea:it shall [happen during] the summer & winter.

And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. [On] that day, there shall be One Lord, & His Name One. [John 10:27-30 My sheep hear My voice, & I know them, & they follow Me. And I give eternal life to them; & they shall never perish. Neither shall any man [snatch] them out of My hand. My Father, [Who] gave them to Me, Is greater than All. And no man is able to [snatch] them out of My Father's hand. I & My Father are One.]

And all the land from Geba to Rimmon, South of Jerusalem, shall be turned & [become like] a plain. And it shall be lifted up, [a.k.a. elevated,] & inhabited in [its] place, from Benjamin's Gate, to the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, & from the Tower of Hananeel, [all the way] to the king's [wine vats.] [Jeremiah 31:38 The Lord says, [Look,] the days come, that the city shall be [rebuilt] to the Lord, from the Tower of Hananeel, unto the Gate of the Corner.]

And there shall no [longer] be [total] destruction, & men shall dwell in it, & Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. [Jeremiah 23:5-6 *The Lord says, [Look,] the days come, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, & a King shall [rule] & prosper, & [carry out] judgment & justice [on] the earth.

*[During] His days, Judah shall be saved, & Israel shall dwell safely. And this is His Name, [by which] He shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.]

And this shall be the plague, [with which] the Lord shall [strike] all the people [who] fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall [rot] away, while they stand on their feet, & their eyes shall [decay] in their [sockets.] And their tongue shall [waste away] in their mouth.

And it shall [happen on] that day, that [there] shall be a [large commotion,] among them, from the Lord. And everyone shall [seize] the hand of his neighbor. And His hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

[2 Samuel 14:20-22 And Saul & all the people, [who] were with him, assembled themselves, & they came to the battle. And, look, there was very great [confusion] & every man's sword was against his fellow.

[Also,] the Hebrews, [who] were with the Philistines [prior to] that time, [who] went up with them into the camp, from [all around] the country, even they also turned to [being] with the Israelites, [who] were with Saul & Jonathan.

[Additionally,] all the men of Israel, [who] had [hidden] themselves in Mount Ephraim, also followed hard after the Philistines in battle, when they heard that [they had] fled.]

And also Judah shall fight [in] Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the heathen, [all around,] shall be gathered together. [A] great abundance [of:] gold; silver; & [garments.]

And the plague [for] the: horse; mule; camel; [donkey; ] & all the [animals] in these tents, shall be [like] this plague. And it shall [happen,] that everyone, [who] is left [from] all the nations, [that] came against Jerusalem, shall even go up [each] year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

[Isaiah 2:2-3 *And it shall [happen, during] the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house, shall be established [on] the top of the mountains, & shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.

*And many shall go & say, You, come, & let's go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel,] & He will teach us [about] His ways, & we will [follow] in His paths. For out of Zion, the Law shall go [out,] & the Word of the Lord [shall go out] from Jerusalem.]

And it shall [happen,] that [whoever] won't come up to Jerusalem, [from] all the families of the earth, to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, [there] shall even be no rain upon them. [Isaiah 60:12 For the nation & kingdom that won't serve You, shall perish. [Yes,] those nations shall be [totally] wasted.]

And if the family [from] Egypt, that [has] no rain, [doesn't] go up, & [doesn't] come to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, [then,] there shall be the plague, [with which,] the Lord will [strike] the heathen.

[Deuteronomy 11:10-12 For the land, [where] you go in to possess, isn't [like] the land of Egypt, from [where] you came out, where you sow your seed [by foot] & you water it, [like] a garden of herbs.

But the land, [where] you go to possess, is a land of hills & valleys, [that] [drink] the water [from] the rain of heaven. A land, which the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even [until] the end of the year.]

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, & the punishment of all nations, that [don't] come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. [On] that day, there shall be [engraved] upon the [horses'] bells, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. And the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowl [in front of] the altar.

[2 Kings 25:14-15 And they took away the: pots; shovels, [candle] snuffers; spoons; & all the vessels of brass, [with which] they ministered. And the firepans, & bowls, & such things as were [made] of gold, & gold and silver, & silver, the captain of [Babylon's] guard, took away.]

[Yes,] every pot in Jerusalem & Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of Hosts. And all [those, who] sacrifice shall come & take them, & [boil in them.] And [on] that day, there shall no [longer] be [any] Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts.

[Isaiah 35:8 And [a] highway shall be there, & a [road.] And it shall be called: The [Road] of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. But it shall be for those: the [traveling] men, [even if they are] fools, [a.k.a. simple minded,] [they] shall not [be led astray on it.]