December 28

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/3637S1228.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1554 Download Link --> <p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/3637S1228.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a> Malachi 2:17-4:6 We are in the Exile Stream reading from the Tree of Life Version. 7streamsmethod.com | @7streamsmethod | <a href= "http://www.sevenstreamsmethod.com/donate"><u>Donate</u></a> Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Lord, the passage today reminds us that your commands are not burdensome.  Trying to put life back together after straying from your commands is what is burdensome.  Keep us in Your care, Your Spirit, and your Will.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <!--more--> <p>This is the final word of the Old Testament and it delivers the heat.  God had just finished scathing them in the prior verses for dumping their wives, taking up with foreign women [since those ladies were more, uh, "IN-ter-essss-ting"] - having been raised in a sex-cult atmosphere.  THEN they would come in to the Temple [wacky-wife-n-tow], lay down their paltry offerings and then wonder why Malachi stuck it to them just as God would roll his eyes, so to speak.  And amid all the pathetics.  Malachi continues:</p> <div>2:17  - "excuse me people?!  You come in to my Temple like this and expect what? a pat on the back? What do you think I am anyway?!"</div> <div>3  -  The Lord is coming and He is bringing a Message  [btw, <em>Adonai Tzva'ot</em> means "Lord of Hosts"; the one who rules all the 100,000,000 angels of heaven!]  He wants all the sinful tendencies, the iniquity, the transgressions to stop and stop now.  And He also wants all of those living back in Israel again to stop blathering their dopey inquiries to God <em>while</em> steeped in their sinfulness, "huh? whaa- God? uh, are we offending you at all? Perhaps YOOOOU God are the one with the attitude problem?... It isn't us with the problem? ...Iszzz it?"    We all just heard the expansive list of sins