Malachi 3:2

“But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:”

"But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:" - Malachi 3:2
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What does Malachi 3:2 mean?

Malachi 3:2 (KJV) – "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap." Malachi 3:2 is a verse from the Old Testament book of Malachi, which is the last book in the Hebrew Bible. This verse…

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Refined by Fire: The Purifying Presence of God

Malachi 3:2 (KJV) tells us, "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope." This profound verse raises questions about the nature of God's coming and brings to light the transformative…

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A Prayer for Refinement and Purification

O Lord God Almighty, our Creator and Sustainer, we come before You in awe and reverence, meditating on the words of the prophet Malachi, who declared: "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like…

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Malachi 3:2 - "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' sope:"
Malachi 2:3 - "Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it."
Malachi 3:4 - "Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years."
Malachi 3:6 - "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
Malachi 3:9 - "Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation."
Malachi 1:3 - "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness."
Malachi 2:1 - "And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you."
Malachi 3:12 - "And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:3 - "And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."
Malachi 3:18 - "Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not."
Malachi 3:15 - "And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered."
Malachi 3:8 - "¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings."
Malachi 4:3 - "And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts."
"And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you." - Malachi 2:1
Malachi 2:7 - "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts."
"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 blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." - Malachi 3:10
"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 blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it]." - Malachi 3:10
Malachi 3:13 - "¶ Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?"
Malachi 3:14 - "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?"
Malachi 2:4 - "And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 3:17 - "And 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."
"For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." - Malachi 3:6
Malachi 3:16 - "¶ Then 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."
Malachi 2:12 - "The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts."
"Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation." - Malachi 3:9
Malachi 3:11 - "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 2:5 - "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name."
"Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years." - Malachi 3:4
"And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." - Malachi 1:3