The Separated
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering
any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
Malachis Prophecy 2:13-14, 16
There is a strange connection between that putting away of which the Lord speaks and the wife of your youth. You see, the Levites were people who had forsaken all for the service, the Lord. Like the disciples after them once said who had left all to follow him still. Sure, service to God is all good and wonderful of course. In the leaving, there remains several promises made to
those who find themselves in places like this as The Gospel of Jesus Christ 10:30 refers. What of it then if there remains the payment hundred-fold to be seen in the house along with that of the Lord. So often, when someone does us wrong we were tempted to take matters unto ourselves.
They would never get away with this we mutter under our breath. How often though do we forget that vengeance is Gods and the fullness thereof of thus saith the Lord. Sure, it might be nice to have some earthly help I suppose, but there is nothing like when God come along to right the wrongs and settle the score. Just as he did in the Garden of Eden, you too might find a cross designed with yourself in mind. It is a bringing of peace to all things by the blood of his Son in Unto Them that are of the Hebrew Tongue 9:12, if you will. Allow me now share what will happen if you would not, my friends.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
See the call indeed came to all a whomsoever will may come and drink of the water of life freely in The Revelation of Jesus Christ 21:6. Like the woman at the well, you too might be saying that is not enough for you. Should you then
find that you were need just a little bit there, he is able my friends. At the bare minimum water is required for life, it satisfies thirst, and aside from that I cannot ask for anything there. Still though according to Book of Psalms 34:8, there remains the taste and see that he is good of the Son. Some of you have not tried him just yet. If you had you would soon find out he does all very well.
The payment then depends on the one who has left whether restoration will follow in this life or the one yet to come. In this case, the one that has been left is the wife of the youth, one who married young before service to the Lord had taken its place. This one too likely left all to follow the Lord and what then was the manner of being left up. It is no small wonder then, in the Levites having mistaken them for the offering, that the Lord was not very
well-pleased. Certainly, it was not anything well as at last. Then too consider the brokenness that has now taken place. The Levites have found covering in the place where the sacrifice laid. How these likely needed Gods mercy and grace yet themselves.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Those who once had spoken of Gods word to the people now needed some help. It is a fearful thing to be found misrepresenting the Lord. Indeed, it is far worse to fall into the hands of a living God for he is an all-consuming fire, is he not. Such sacrifices remind of the idol worship of Baal and child sacrifices offered to others of similar fame. Small wonder then that this matter ties in to Gods house with a weeping and wailing and making of noise. It is none other than the priests on the altar themselves. Had they only known where it all would end up and what had been left to follow the Lord. These also would not have condemned the innocent with the guilty so quickly had they but known his desire for mercy not sacrifice as it appeared to be shown.
Such a thing too speaks of the God that had not been hitherto known. Is it any wonder that his visitation on the children of the third and fourth
generation of them that hated him as in Out of Egypt 20:4 thus should appear. God being holy is ever so just is not he my friends. Nor will God in his righteousness just leave us alone. I can see it now as he sets it right, this all things of his house. For it is his house to which we have come and that of none other but the one who suffered and died is now risen alive. Behold him now as he reads them his will and settles the score. This setting all things right of his Son. It seems the Lord in his glory will not tolerate any to be
missing or broken not ever for long.