Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Malachi 3:2
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2. ( Malachi 4:1 ; Revelation 6:16 ; Revelation 6:17 ). The Messiah would come, not, as they expected, to flatter the theocratic nation's prejudices, but to subject their principles to the fiery test of His heart-searching truth ( Revelation 6:17- : ), and to destroy Jerusalem and the theocracy after they had rejected Him. His mission is here regarded as a whole from the first to the second advent: the process of refining and separating the godly from the ungodly beginning during Christ's stay on earth, going on ever since, and about to continue till the final separation ( Matthew 25:31-46 ). The refining process, whereby a third of the Jews is refined as silver of its dross, while two-thirds perish, is described, Zechariah 13:8 ; Zechariah 13:9 (compare Zechariah 13:9- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-3" class="com-number"
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