Who has read Malachi lately?
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But then again, our God has never changed:
"For I am the LORD, I change not; ..." Mal 3:6
The way people deal with God (or not) may differ from person to person and from time to time, but does not God love us all? Our God is no respecter of persons. For the final judgment of a person brought up as physical follower of Moses, the man of God, or in a modern massive city like New York, will God not give both the same fair consideration and opportunity according to what the person has available to him?
"But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." Luke 12:48
And also the last written warning in Protestant Bibles today before Jesus arrived on the scene as a man of flesh! Do any of the warnings to the natural children of Israel (the offspring of Jacob) apply to believers in Christ today?
Consider this verse:
"Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible." Mal 1:7
Is the Apostle Paul not writing about the very same table?
"But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils." I Cor 10:20-21
Why would the "polluted bread" of Malachi be different than the "cup of devils" of Paul?
I know that at times we have disagreed, but have I offended you in some way? You bypassed or ignored 4 of my posts with questions to you in order to tag another member? What is with that? If you don't want discussion, then why bother to post on an open forum...?
You had posted this previously. I posted what I did in disagreement. Do you not see the connection?
What is this church, which you say is not the subject? Please clarify...
God has not changed. Do you not see a connection now?
It started at Pentecost in Acts 2; but there are good applications from the Old Testament, though not the primary interpretation.
Similar principles; but because the church is not in view in the Old Testament, it's not exactly the same.
(I write of course as a dispensationalist.)
@Heart2Soul I do like Malachi; fascinating little prophecy; short but so full of themes relevant to the church, even though it's Israel primarily in view....
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