SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/26/2016 10:04 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
An Unclean Nation
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 3:2b-4
Message of the verses: “And who can stand when He appears? For He is
like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3 “He will sit as a smelter and
purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like
gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in
righteousness. 4 “Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to
the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.”
Once again
I remind you that we are looking at a prophecy that will be fulfilled at the
second coming of Jesus Christ to planet earth, and things that will happen
after He returns into the Millennial Kingdom.
We see that Malachi is asking the question in the last half of the
second verse who will be able to stand when the Messiah (the Lord Jesus Christ)
returns. He then goes on to tell us why
no one will be able to stand as he describes what He will do when He
returns. Jesus Christ will purify the
Jewish nation when He returns so that they will be fit to serve in the
Millennial Kingdom. He will bring a
swift judgment on those who are not believers as according to Matthew 25 “Mt 25:32
“All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from
one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and
the goats on the left.”
Dr. Wiersbe
writes “In the Law of Moses, God provided three ways for people and things to
be cleansed and made acceptable to God:
water, fire, and blood. There is
no mention here of blood because Jesus Christ died for sinners at His first
coming. But he would wash the unclean
nation like a launderer washes dirty clothes.
He would purify the tribe of Levi the way a jeweler purifies precious
metal in his furnace. ‘In that day there
shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness’ (Zech. 13:1).”
Now once
all of the nation is cleansed and also the priests are purified then they will
be an acceptable sacrifice to the Lord as seen in verse four as it says they
will be pleasing to the Lord like they were in the former days. This is contrary to what the priests were
doing in Malachi’s day as we have seen in earlier SD’s. In those days when the Lord cleanses His
priests they will be like what Paul writes to the Romans in 12:1b “to present
your bodies a living and
holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of
worship.”
11/26/2016 10:19 PM
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