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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Malachi 3 This chapter begins with a prophecy of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ; and of the coming of Christ, and the effects and consequences of it, with respect both to the righteous and the wicked; and it contains accusations and charges of sin against the Jews, intermixed with exhortations to repentance. John the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, I will send my messenger,.... These are the words of Christ, in answer to the question put in the last verse of the preceding chapter Malachi 2:17, "Where [is] the God of judgment?" intimating that he would quickly appear, and previous to his coming send his messenger or angel; not the angel of death to destroy the wicked, as Jarchi...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly described, both the comfort which his coming brings to his church and people and the terror which it will bring to the wicked, ver. 1-6. II. A reproof of the Jews for their corrupting God's ordinances and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 prepare the way of the Lord. Mal_3:1. And the lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, Now, the temple at Jerusalem is utterly destroyed, so how can the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But who may abide the day of his coming?.... When he should be manifest in Israel, and come preaching the Gospel of the kingdom; who could bear the doctrines delivered by him, concerning his deity and equality with God the Father; concerning his character and mission as the Messiah, and his kingdom not being a temporal, but a spiritual one;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: All that only looked like religion, but was not real and genuine, was purged away at his coming. He was like a refiner’s fire, consuming the false pretensions of the Pharisees, and the vain boastings of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall sit [as] a refiner, and purifier of silver,.... Kimchi interprets this, as he does the latter part of the preceding verse Malachi 3:2, of the day, and not of the Lord, which he compares to a judge that sits and separates the guilty from the innocent; see 1 Corinthians 3:13 but it is to be understood of the Lord himself, and expresses...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: Christ comes suddenly, but he comes to stay: “He shall sit.” If he comes into our heart at this moment, — and he may come there suddenly, — he will come to stay there, and he will sit there “as a refiner and purifier of silver.” Mal_3:3. And he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord,.... Or "sweet" (b); grateful and well pleasing to him, as all spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God through Christ, being offered up in the faith of his atoning sacrifice and righteousness, without which it is impossible to please God: as in the days of old, and as in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 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 his wages, the widow, and the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 last day, but of his coming to judge and punish the wicked Jews at the time of Jerusalem's destruction; for the same is here meant, who is spoken of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I [am] the Lord,.... Or Jehovah; a name peculiar to the most High, and so a proof of the deity of Christ, who here speaks; and is expressive of his being; of his self-existence; of his purity and simplicity; of his immensity and infinity; and of his eternity and sovereignty: I change not; being the same today, yesterday, and forever; he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. This is their comfort; even the immutability of God is on the side of his people. He is just, and always just, he hates sin, and always hates sin; yet that unchangeableness of his is always on the side of the people of his choice.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances,.... Here begins an enumeration of the sins of the Jews, which were the cause of their ruin; and here is first a general charge of apostasy from the statutes and ordinances of the law, which they made void by the traditions of the fathers; and therefore this word is used as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. Ye wanderers from God, take this invitation home to your hearts, and act upon it. Arise, and return unto your Father; for when you are yet a great way off, he will see you, and will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Will a man rob God?.... Or "the gods"; the false gods, the idols of the Gentiles; the Heathens will not do that, accounting sacrilege a great sin, and yet this the Jews were guilty of: or "the judges" (c), as the Targum; civil magistrates; will any dare to defraud them of their due? see Malachi 1:8. Yet ye have robbed me; keeping back from the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. They were always ready to deny or question a just accusation, instead of letting it operate upon their conscience, so they asked about this charge. Mal_3:8. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. They had kept back from God’s service the money which was needful for the carrying...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ye [are] cursed with a curse,.... Or "with penury", as the Vulgate Latin version; which, though not a proper rendering of the word, is the meaning of the curse they were cursed with; rain was withheld from them for their sins, and the earth did not bring forth its usual increase; wherefore there was want of food in all their land; their blessings...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation, They could not make out why they were so poor, and why they could not get on; the real reason was that there was a curse resting upon all that they did, because they had robbed God.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,.... Or "treasury" (e); for there were places in the temple where the tithe was put, and from thence distributed to the priests and Levites, for the support of their families, as they wanted. There were the tithe or tenth part of all eatable things paid to the Levites, and out of this another tithe was...