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.] |