May we have the shining reality of the Lord Jesus so that we may be under God’s reign and grow in the divine life. Keep us under Your ruling and reigning today as we remain under Your shining. Lord, make us the living stars who shine You forth by allowing You to shine in us and through us. May Your kingdom come in us. May Your kingdom be manifested through us. 🙏
Malachi was another representative figure among the prophets. The last two prophets in the Old Testament are Zechariah and Malachi, and both prophets testify of the coming Christ. Malachi says that the Lord’s coming would be like the Sun of righteousness arising ( 4:2 ). He also says that when Christ appears, He will be like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap to refine and purify all of man’s filthiness ( 3:2-3 ). The book of Malachi has many words like this. This indicates that as we participate in the Lord’s work today, there is no need to argue about who is right and who is wrong, who is faithful and who is not faithful, who is living before the Lord and who is not living before the Lord, or whose intention is pure and whose intention is not pure. We do not need to say anything for ourselves, because everything will be made clear at His coming. This is similar to what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4:5 : “Do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then there will be praise to each from God. ” Before that time we should only keep a God-fearing heart. What we do today will become manifest at the Lord’s coming.