Malachi 3:7 &
4:1-6
7 Even from the
days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept
them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But
you said, Wherein shall we return?
The House of Israel
will at first, however,
not believe that they NEED to return.
13 Your words
have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken
[so much] against you?
14 You have said, It [is] in vain to serve God; and what profit [is it] that
we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked mournfully before the
LORD of hosts?
They feel that the
law (especially the Oral Law) has been “done away” with.
15 And now we
call the proud happy, yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, [they
that] tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke 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.
17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my
jewels, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
18
Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the
wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.
It is God’s plan
that the House of Israel is to RETURN (repent) and remember.