Hello, and welcome
to "His Words Are Life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer,
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and today we're going to
read together from Zechariah.
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But let's pray before we start.
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Dear, Heavenly Father,
thank You for Your word,
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thank You for the
light and the life,
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thank You for the
guidance and the wisdom.
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Please, teach us to
love and serve You better
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by what we read
today in Jesus name, amen.
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We're picking up in Zechariah
Chapter 14 and verse 12,
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this is the King James Version.
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"And this shall be the plague
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wherewith the Lord
will smite all the people
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that have fought
against Jerusalem.
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Their flesh shall consume away
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while they
stand upon their feet,
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and their eyes shall
consume away in their holes,
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and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth.
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It shall come to
pass in that day,
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that a great
tumult from the Lord
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shall be among them,
and they shall lay hold
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every one on the
hand of his neighbour,
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and his hand shall rise up
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against the hand
of his neighbour.
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And Judah also
shall fight at Jerusalem,
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and the wealth of all
the heathen round about
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shall be gathered together,
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gold, and silver, and
apparel, in great abundance.
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And so shall be the
plague of the horse,
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of the mule, of the camel,
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and of the ass,
and of all the beasts
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that shall be in
these tents, as this plague.
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And it shall come to pass,
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that every one that is
left of all the nations
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which came against Jerusalem
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shall even go up
from year to year
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to worship the
King, the Lord of hosts,
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and to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
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And it shall be, that
whoso will not come up
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of all the families of
the earth unto Jerusalem
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to worship the
King, the Lord of hosts,
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even upon them shall be no rain.
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And if the family
of Egypt go not up,
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and come not, that have no rain,
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there shall be
the plague, wherewith
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the Lord will smithe
the heathen that come
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not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
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This shall be the
punishment of Egypt,
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and the
punishment of all nations
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that come not up to keep
the feast of tabernacles.
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In that day shall there be
upon the bells of the horses,
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Holiness unto the Lord,
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and the pots in the Lord's house
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shall be like the
bowls before the altar.
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Yea, every pot in Jerusalem
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and in Judah shall be
holiness unto the Lord of hosts,
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and all they that sacrifice
shall come and take of them,
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and seethe
therein, and in that day
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there shall be no
more the Canaanite
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in the house of
the Lord of hosts."
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We're reading now in the
Book of Malachi, Chapter 1,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"The burden of the word of
the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
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I have loved
you, saith the Lord.
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Yet ye say,
Wherein hast thou loved us?
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Was not Esau Jacob's
brother? Saith the Lord,
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yet I loved
Jacob, and I hated Esau,
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and laid his
mountains and his heritage waste
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for the dragons
of the wilderness.
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Whereas Edom saith,
We are impoverished,
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but we will return and
build the desolate places,
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thus saith the Lord of hosts,
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They shall build,
but I will throw down,
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and they shall call
them, The border of wickedness,
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and, The people against whom
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the Lord hath
indignation for ever.
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And your eyes shall
see, and ye shall say,
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The Lord will be magnified
from the border of Israel.
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A son honoureth his father,
and a servant his master,
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if then I be a
father, where is mine honour?
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And if I be a
master, where is my fear?
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Saith the Lord
of hosts unto you,
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O priests, that despise my name.
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And ye say, Wherein
have we despised thy name?
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Ye offer polluted
bread upon mine altar,
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and ye say, Wherein
have we polluted thee?
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In that ye say, The table
of the Lord is contemptible.
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And if ye offer the blind
for sacrifice, is it not evil?
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And if ye offer the lame
and sick, is it not evil?
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Offer it now unto thy governor,
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will he be pleased with
thee, or accept thy person?
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Saith the Lord of hosts.
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And now, I pray you, beseech God
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that He will be
gracious unto us,
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this hath been by your means,
will he regard your persons?
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Saith the Lord of hosts.
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Who is there even among you
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that would shut
the doors for nought?
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Neither do ye kindle
fire on mine altar for nought.
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I have no pleasure in
you, saith the Lord of hosts,
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neither will I accept
an offering at your hand.
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For from the rising of the sun
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even unto the
going down of the same
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my name shall be
great among the Gentiles,
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and in every place incense
shall be offered unto my name,
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and a pure offering,
for my name shall be great
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among the heathen,
saith the Lord of hosts.
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But ye have
profaned it, in that ye say,
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The table of the
Lord is polluted,
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and the fruit thereof,
even his meat, is contemptible.
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Ye said also, Behold,
what a weariness is it!
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And ye have snuffed at
it, saith the Lord of hosts,
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and ye brought
that which was torn,
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and the lame, and the sick,
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thus ye brought an offering,
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should I accept this of
your hand? Saith the Lord.
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But cursed be the deceiver,
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which hath in his
flock a male, and voweth,
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and sacrificeth unto
the Lord a corrupt thing,
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for I am a great King,
saith the Lord of hosts,
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and my name is
dreadful among the heathen."
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Continuing in Malachi Chapter 2,
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this is the King James Version.
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"And now, O ye priests,
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this commandment is for you.
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If ye will not hear, and if
ye will not lay it to heart,
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to give glory unto my
name, saith the Lord of hosts,
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I will even send
a curse upon you,
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and I will curse your blessings,
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yea, I have cursed them already,
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because ye do
not lay it to heart.
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Behold, I will
corrupt your seed,
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and spread dung upon your faces,
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even the dung of
your solemn feasts,
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and one shall
take you away with it.
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And ye shall
know that I have sent
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this commandment unto you,
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that my covenant
might be with Levi,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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My covenant was with
him of life and peace,
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and I gave them
to him for the fear
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wherewith he feared me,
and was afraid before my name.
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The law of truth
was in his mouth,
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and iniquity was
not found in his lips,
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he walked with me
in peace and equity,
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and did turn many
away from iniquity.
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For the priest's lips
should keep knowledge,
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and they should seek
the law at his mouth,
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for he is the
messenger of the Lord of hosts.
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But ye are
departed out of the way,
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ye have caused many
to stumble at the law,
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ye have corrupted
the covenant of Levi,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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Therefore have I
also made you contemptible
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and base before all the people,
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according as ye
have not kept my ways,
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but have been
partial in the law?
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Have we not all one father?
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Hath not one God created us?
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Why do we deal treacherously
every man against his brother,
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by profaning the
covenant of our fathers?
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Judah hath dealt treacherously,
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and an abomination is committed
in Israel and in Jerusalem,
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for Judah hath profaned
the holiness of the Lord
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which he loved, and hath married
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the daughter of a strange god.
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The Lord will cut off
the man that doeth this,
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the master and the scholar,
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out of the tabernacles of Jacob,
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and him that
offereth an offering
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unto the Lord of hosts.
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And this have ye done again,
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covering the altar
of the Lord with tears,
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with weeping,
and with crying out,
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insomuch that he regardeth
not the offering any more,
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or receiveth it with
good will at your hand.
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Yet ye say, Wherefore?
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Because the Lord
hath been witness
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between thee and
the wife of thy youth,
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against whom thou
hast dealt treacherously,
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yet is she thy companion,
and the wife of thy covenant.
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And did not he make one?
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Yet had he the
residue of the spirit.
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And wherefore one?
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That he might seek a godly seed.
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Therefore take
heed to your spirit,
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and let none deal treacherously
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against the wife of his youth.
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For the Lord, the God of Israel,
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saith that he
hateth putting away,
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for one covereth
violence with his garment,
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saith the Lord of hosts,
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therefore take
heed to your spirit,
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that ye deal not treacherously.
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Ye have wearied the
Lord with your words.
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Yet ye say, Wherein
have we wearied him?
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When ye say, Every
one that doeth evil
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is good in the
sight of the Lord,
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and he delighteth in them,
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or, Where is the
God of judgment?"
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Continuing in Malachi Chapter 3,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Behold, I will
send my messenger,
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and he shall
prepare the way before me,
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and the Lord, whom ye seek,
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shall suddenly
come to his temple,
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even the
messenger of the covenant,
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whom ye delight in,
behold, he shall come,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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But who may abide
the day of his coming?
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And who shall
stand when he appeareth?
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For he is like a refiner's
fire, and like fullers' soap,
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And he shall sit as a
refiner and purifier of silver,
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and he shall
purify the sons of Levi,
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and purge them
as gold and silver,
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that they may
offer unto the Lord
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an offering in righteousness.
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Then shall the offering of Judah
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and Jerusalem be
pleasant unto the Lord,
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as in the days of old,
and as in former years.
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And I will come
near to you to judgment,
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and I will be a swift
witness against the sorcerers,
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and against the adulterers,
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and against false swearers,
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and against those that oppress
the hireling in his wages,
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the widow, and the fatherless,
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and that turn aside the
stranger from his right,
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and fear not me,
saith the Lord of hosts.
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For I am the Lord, I change not,
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therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed.
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Even from the
days of your fathers
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ye are gone away
from mine ordinances,
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and have not kept them.
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Return unto me, and
I will return unto you,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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But ye said,
Wherein shall we return?
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Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed me.
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But ye say, Wherein
have we robbed thee?
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In tithes and offerings.
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Ye are cursed with a
curse, for ye have robbed me,
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even this whole nation.
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Bring ye all the
tithes into the storehouse,
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that there may be
meat in mine house,
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and prove me now herewith,
saith the Lord of hosts,
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if I will not open
you the windows of heaven,
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and pour you out a blessing,
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that there shall not be
room enough to receive it.
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And I will rebuke the
devourer for your sakes,
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and he shall not destroy
the fruits of your ground,
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neither shall your
vine cast her fruit
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before the time in the field,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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And all nations
shall call you blessed,
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for ye shall be
a delightsome land,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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Your words have been stout
against me, saith the Lord.
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Yet ye say, What have we
spoken so much against thee?
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Ye have said, It
is vain to serve God,
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and what profit is it that
we have kept his ordinance,
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and that we have
walked mournfully
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before the Lord of hosts?
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And now we call the proud happy,
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yea, they that work
wickedness are set up,
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yea, they that tempt
God are even delivered.
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Then they that feared the
Lord spake often one to another,
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and the Lord
hearkened, and heard it,
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and a book of remembrance
was written before him
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for them that feared the Lord,
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and that thought upon his name.
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And they shall be mine,
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saith the Lord of hosts,
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in that day when
I make up my jewels,
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and I will spare them,
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as a man spareth his
own son that serveth him.
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Then shall ye
return, and discern
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between the
righteous and the wicked,
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between him that serveth God
and him that serveth him not."
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Continuing in Malachi Chapter 4,
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this is the King James Version.
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"For, behold, the day cometh,
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that shall burn as an
oven, and all the proud,
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yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble,
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and the day that
cometh shall burn them up,
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saith the Lord of hosts,
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that it shall leave
them neither root nor branch.
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But unto you that fear my name
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shall the Sun of righteousness
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arise with healing in his wings,
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and ye shall go forth,
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and grow up as
calves of the stall.
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And ye shall
tread down the wicked,
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for they shall be
ashes under the soles
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of your feet in the
day that I shall do this,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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Remember ye the law
of Moses my servant,
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which I commanded unto
him in Horeb for all Israel,
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with the statutes and judgments.
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Behold, I will send
you Elijah the prophet
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before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord,
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And he shall turn the heart
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of the fathers to the children,
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and the heart of the
children to their fathers,
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lest I come and smite
the earth with a curse."
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In the last few moments
of our time together here,
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turn with me to Psalm 23.
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We'll pick up next
time in the Book of Matthew.
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But let's close out just reading
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the last few verses of
Psalm 23, beginning in verse 4.
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"Yea, though I walk through
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the valley of
the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil,
for thou art with me;
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thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me.
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Thou preparest a table before me
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in the presence of mine enemies,
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thou anointest my head
with oil, my cup runneth over.
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Surely goodness and
mercy will follow me
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all the days of my life,
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and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord for ever.
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