It's amazing how you Dispies pick OT verses and apply them to the future.
Read the entire book of Malachi and maybe you will learn the context.
Malachi was written post exile. The Jews had rebuilt the temple, but once again turned from God.
Malachi tells us that Judah married the daughter of a strange god:
(Malachi 2:11 KJV) Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
In chp 3, Malachi tells us that God will send His messenger (John the Baptist) to prepare the way for the Lord (Christ Jesus)
To claim that verse 4 in chp 3 is of the yet future is just foolishness.
No matter how hard you try, there will never be animal sacrifices for sin atonement in the future.
Christ Jesus made the one time sacrifice for all sin forever.
Quite trying to defend Darby, and believe what the Bible actually says.
This has nothing to do with how hard we are trying. Rather, with how your system does not allow you to see that verse 4 was never fulfilled:
Malachi 4:
4. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,
lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Israel failed to meet that.
Matthew 11:
14. And
if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Luke 19:
41. And when he was come near,
he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42. Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
43. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
44. And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
You assert you know what we believe as to whether or not millennial sacrifices.
What do we base that which we assert on? What setting?
"Studied Dispensationalism for 25 years," and yet, you do not know that without setting all you are doing is misrepresenting another's view.
That's called lying, and slander.
By the way, why is it you are so hostile as to Dispensationalism, to begin with?
I mean, you border on a neurosis of some kind.
Okay, so you do not agree. But why the need to so malign the view, and those who hold to it, in contrast to simply laying out where you differ in your understanding?
You have been consistently neurotic and dishonest in this.
If you look at my posts, the only people I label, get in the face of are basically people like you. Anyone else, I don't go there.
Its called choice.
Your does appear a neurosis of some kind - what's up with that?
Anyway, again - You assert you know what we believe as to whether or not millennial sacrifices.
What do we base that which we assert on? What setting? Why?
I mean, assuming you put away your need to assert your notion that the real issue is the need to hold to a view and no other reason.
I know that is not my reason, as I am still open to changes ever happening within my own understanding
Personally, I think that this notion of yours that the real issue is the need to hold to a view and no other reason, is a bit ignorant on your part. Its not like you actually know anyone here from personal dealings with them. Thus, yours is just ignorance.
I doubt I'll get a straight answer out of you. But I wouldn't mind being wrong.
