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    In Malachi there is a prophetic word to us in this day. We are living in it right now whether any of us believe it or not. Let me share what the Lord revealed to me from Malachi as it applies to our situation in the world. You will see God's prediction of having a people who will render a righteous offering to Him, and you will also see that He talks about protecting those who really serve Him. Serving Him righteously is what we have been talking about!

Chapter 3 of Malachi. . .
The approach of the day of judgment

1. Behold I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

    The messenger was John the Baptist. The Lord was Jesus who came into His bodily temple and revealed the new and final covenant.

2. 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: 3. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

    The Lord is seated now as a refiner. We are the sons of Levi. The Levites were priests, and we in the body of Christ are called priests. The Lord is purging us so we the priests . . . may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. The Lord showed me that people can put the fire out in their own life! Don't let that happen to you concerning . . . offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

4. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 5. And I will come near to you to judgment;

    When the offering to the Lord from us (the priests of the church) becomes pleasant to Him, He will move in the church's circumstances and bring forth His basic promises for the church (his nation). He will purge from the churchthose things specified in these scriptures.

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 fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. 6. For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. 7. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them.

Then God Says,
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.

    I heard these same words come forth in a prophetic word in a church. Yes, in this day! Others have heard them over and over. It is interesting that no one at the time really ever came to understand why or what the Lord was revealing. This fits the next sentences, doesn't it? (We had no idea that we were robbing God!)

But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

    We the church, have been robbing God of what's His. After understanding where His treasure should be delivered we can see how that has affected our Nation. Allow me to share how the Lord made this clear to me one night.

In a vision the Lord took me into a church. The pastor was sweating and preaching very hard. It was revealed that he was overly tired and was thinking about quitting. There were men in the audience sitting with their legs crossed and their right arms around their wives, relaxed as if nothing was wrong. There was fornication taking place on the back pews. The men were unconcerned about this. Then I could see outside through a large glass window. There was a big bird that looked like an eagle, USA. Men were struggling, trying to help the bird stay in the air, but they were having no success in doing anything for it. I watched and it finally crashed into the church building window for all to see.

    Can you see? The church needs to quit robbing God, and then God will change this nation. You may be one who says, "But I've been paying my tithes." You haven't if those in charge of your tithes did not deliver it into the hands of those specified by God. If your tithe went for buildings, heating and air conditioning, etc., then God didn't receive it as a tithe. He cannot and never has accepted an unrighteous offering! That's why when He was teaching me about tithing, He said, "The only way you can give to Me is to give to them!" He was talking about people He had specified in scripture!
    Going on with Malachi, the right reason (attitude) for tithing is so He has something tangible (meat) to work with. Do we love Him?

10. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, . . . (Note: The store house was a place in the temple, not the temple itself. The harlot has mistakenly used this part of the scriptures to get people to give to her for her purposes instead of the Lord's purposes.)

    Here we are as a church in this scripture. God is saying, "Try Me now, do it right, and see if I won't bless you beyond measure." Have you ever wondered why the wealth of the wicked has not arrived into the hands of the righteous? The answer is, the church must work (practice) righteousness in order to be righteous. Theoretically, there is no righteous church for God to deliver the wealth into . . . yet! God is looking for obedient people!

and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. 12. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.

Sounds good!

13. Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14. Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

    I have heard Christians say, "I've tried tithing and it didn't work." A lot have quit; others are still doing it because they believe it's right. It sounds like what I have underlined above, doesn't it? 15. And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

    These same Christians who have said it is vain to serve the Lord are looking at people in the world and saying, "They are happier than I am and I'm trying to serve the Lord." But then it says that the wicked are set up. However, the grace of the Lord is shown in ..."they that tempt the Lord are even delivered." Who's tempting the Lord? It is those who say it is vain to serve the Lord. Isn't that great that even those who tempt the Lord are to be delivered?

But look...

16. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

    Those who feared the Lord kept going and the Lord saw this and moved to bring something forgotten out of the past, a book of remembrance for those that feared and thought on His name. In other words He was going to re-teach (reveal) something from the past that was forgotten. The Lord told this ministry early on that our commission was to reestablish the foundational principles found in the Bible that have been lost through time. (Interesting!) God is very simply fulfilling His word to us in the last days.

17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

    When is the day when the Lord makes up His jewels? In Revelation 21: 9 - 27 God talks about the Lamb's bride, the Lamb's wife, which is the Spotless Church. Here God refers to the Bride as a city and refers to that city as a "her." In Nov. of 1999, God showed me in a vision that He is now making up His jewels!

Revelation 21:10
10. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11. Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
                                                            

    The precious stones are listed in verses 19 and 20 of this same chapter. The day when the Lord makes up His jewels is the day when God brings forth the Bride Spotless, that great city, the holy Jerusalem. It is NOW!

Returning to the Malachi scriptures. . .

17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

    I have repeated verse 17 because it talks about whom the Lord spares which is, "Those that serve Him." In other words He is not going to spare those who aren't really serving Him! Remember all of this is really about a righteous offering! If you are robbing Him you most certainly are not serving Him.

18. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

    Verse 18 reveals the difference between the righteous and the wicked. We are not talking about salvation here. A person who does a wicked act is called wicked whether or not he is saved. A saved person can do a wicked act.
    All through the Bible God rejected unrighteous offerings of all types. It's a hard thing to admit we have been wrong in handling God's money. It's a hard thing to change our ways. Purging indicates dividing, separation, and pressure. It takes pressure to purge the things that are actually a part of us, our traditions, habits, and false beliefs! But praise God, He is able to bring forth the spotless church!

Malachi 3:3
3. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Why the purging and the purifying?

... That we (the priests) may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

    It's not what He has called the church to do with His money that is hard. If we walked into a church that was handling the Lord's money righteously, it wouldn't be hard for us at all! It's admitting the problem and changing it that is hard. Getting rid of our old ways is what's hard! That's why the word "Purged" is used! God help US!

13.I Saw a Man of Silver, Immaculate in Nature