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BRING THE WHOLE TITHES - , not a part only, keeping back more or less,
and, as he had said, defrauding God, offering, like Ananias, apart, as
if it had been the whole; into the treasury, where they we...
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REBUKE FOR DEFRAUDING THE LORD
CHAPTER 3:7-15
Another rebuke is administered. They were alway a stiff-necked people,
never obedient to His ordinances. His gracious call to return unto
Him, and the pr...
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TITHES AND THE DIVINE BLESSING. The people cannot hope to win God's
favour so long as they Withhold God's dues. When the tithes
(Deuteronomy 12:17 f; Deuteronomy 14:22 *, Numbers 18:21 *,...
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_all the tithes_ More exactly, THE WHOLE TITHE, R. V. Cf. Deuteronomy
26:12.
_the storehouse_ This may have been the "great chamber", or "lean to",
surrounding the second Temple on three sides, and co...
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_THE SIN OF INGRATITUDE -- MALACHI 3:6-12:_ The people did not see
that they had any need to repent. Malachi moved to discuss in more
details two specific sins of the Jews. The first was that they wer...
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IF THE PEOPLE WILL RETURN IN DEVOTION TO GOD HE
WILL YET BLESS THEM. Malachi 3:7-12
RV. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine
ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me...
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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. But ye said, Wherein shall we
re...
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3:10 it. (i-48) Or 'a blessing, to superabundance.'...
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The Speedy Judgment
1. This v. is closely connected with the preceding. It is the answer
to the question, 'Where is the God of judgment?' The messenger is
evidently a prophet or a succession of pro...
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MY *MESSENGER
MALACHI
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 3
V1 ‘Look at me! I will send my *messenger. He will prepare the way
for me. Then, suddenly, the *Lord that you are looking for will come
to his...
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REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (MALACHI 2:17 TO
MALACHI 3:18).
(17) A new section of the prophecy begins with this verse. The prophet
now directs his reproofs against the people...
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The emphasis is on the word “all.”
STOREHOUSE. — From the time of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:11) there
were at the Sanctuary special storehouses built for this purpose; so,
too, in the second Temple (N...
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הָבִ֨יאוּ אֶת ־כָּל ־הַֽ מַּעֲשֵׂ֜ר
אֶל ־בֵּ֣
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Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1
PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW
"MALACHI" 1-4
BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of
"Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...
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6. REPENTANCE BY TITHES
Malachi 3:6
This section ought perhaps to follow on to the preceding. Those whom
it blames for not paying the Temple tithes may be the skeptics
addressed in the previous secti...
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A PURGING FROM EVIL
Malachi 3:1-12
The opening verses of this chapter stir the heart like the call of a
trumpet. We remember how literally they were fulfilled in the
presentation of our Lord in the T...
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The last division of the Book contains the prophet's announcement of
the coming of Messiah. It falls into three sections, one dealing with
the coming One, one dealing with the Coming Day, and one utte...
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Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, 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...
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_Heaven; copious showers. --- Blessing; fertility._...
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Read these verses also spiritually, and ask what are the tithes the
Lord hath respect to in what is here said? What can the Lord be
requiring of his creatures, when we know that the earth is the Lord'...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of
the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and
Daniel, and in a me...
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He at length declares that they profited nothing by contending with
God, but that a better way was open to them, that is, to return into
favor with him. After having then repelled their unjust accusat...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4.
The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the
captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral
condition of...
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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 o...
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Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, 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...
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_Bring ye all the tithes_ Make a punctual and full payment of all
tithes: and in this instance make good your solemn engagement with
Nehemiah, mentioned Nehemiah 10:29. _Into the storehouse_ This was...
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THE PEOPLE REBUKED...
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Bring ye all the tithes, the entire tithes, not only a part, into the
storehouse, not keeping back a part, as heretofore, THAT THERE MAY BE
MEAT IN MINE HOUSE, as food for His servants, Numbers 18:24;...
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7-12 The men of that generation turned away from God, they had not
kept his ordinances. God gives them a gracious call. But they said,
Wherein shall we return? God notices what returns our hearts mak...
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BRING YE: if these persons spoken of be the priests, then they are
required not to detain the tithes in their own hands, but, as was
their duty, to bring them into the public storehouse. If the people...
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Malachi 3:10 Bring H935 (H8685) tithes H4643 storehouse H214 food
H2964 house H1004 try H974 (H8798) this...
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YHWH BRINGS A FURTHER CHARGE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE. THEY HAVE FAILED IN
THEIR OFFERING OF TITHES (MALACHI 3:7).
There were no doubt some who could still feel pretty pleased with
themselves. They could in...
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Malachi 3:10
I. God has ever connected the enjoyment and use of certain blessings
with the observance of His ordinances, and with obedience to His
requirements.
II. Although God has thus connected bl...
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Malachi 3:1. _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 prepa...
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CONTENTS: Mission of John the Baptist, and Christ's first advent
foretold. Israel exhorted to return to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Malachi, John the Baptist.
CONCLUSION: Those who deny God His pa...
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Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the
way before me._ John the baptist, as our Saviour himself expounds this
passage. Matthew 11:7.
_The Lord whom ye seek,_ and for whom...
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_Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse._
GOD’S STOREHOUSE
The contents of this book show that, in the time of Malachi, religion
was in a very low condition. The people robbed God by keeping bac...
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MALACHI 3:6 Fifth Dispute: How Shall We Repent? Can a Man Rob God?
Malachi returns to the subject of Israel’s offerings, which he first
addressed in the second dispute (Malachi 1:6). When Israe
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MALACHI—NOTE ON MALACHI 3:10 God promises that if his people
faithfully present their FULL TITHE, then the desperately needed rain
will come (v. Malachi 3:10). Crop
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CRITICAL NOTES.
Malachi 3:6. I Jehovah] am unchangeable in gifts and calling,
therefore sons of JACOB] (contrasted with Jehovah) will not be
destroyed. “The Divine immutability secured the preservati...
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EXPOSITION
MALACHI 3:1
BEHOLD, I WILL SEND (_I send_) MY MESSENGER. God answers that he is
coming to show himself the God of judgment and justice. Are they ready
to meet him and to bear his sentence?...
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Now the promise of the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner to
Jesus Christ.
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before
me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenl...
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1 Chronicles 26:20; 1 Kings 17:13; 2 Chronicles 31:10; 2 Chronicles
31:11;...
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VITAL QUESTIONS
Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response,
instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...
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THE TITHE CHAPTER
Malachi 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
When one reads the Book of Malachi he would think that the Holy Spirit
was writing a message to the churches of the twentieth century,
especially to...
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Bring ye — Make a punctual and full payment of all tithes; about
this did Nehemiah contend with the rulers, and made them comply, and
then all Judah obeyed and did the like, Nehemiah 13:10. To the sto...