Judgment · Historical judgment oracle

Malachi 3:13-18

Malachi · ~430 BC · Status: Future · Confidence: 60%
“Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?”
King James Version · the opening — all 6 verses are below
More of Malachi 3 on this siteMalachi 3:1 · Malachi 3:2-3 · Malachi 3:6-12

God keeping a book of remembrance for those who fear him, an anticipation of the Lamb's Book of Life.

Read the whole passage — all 6 verses (KJV)

3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

3:14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

3:15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

3:16Then they that feared the LORD spake 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.

3:17And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

3:18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Fulfillment References

Revelation 20:12 Philippians 4:3 Daniel 7:10

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