Malachi 3 focuses on God’s coming judgement, purification and blessing. “See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way for me… but who can endure the day of his coming… for he will be like a refiner’s fire… I will come near to you in judgement against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, defrauders and oppressors and who do not fear me… I the Lord do not change… so return to me and I will return to you… will a man rob God in tithes and offerings?… the whole nation is under a curse because you are robbing me… so bring the whole tithe into the storehouse and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven’s blessing… and all nations will call you blessed… and those that fear the Lord will be mine, says the Lord Almighty”.
