Episode 878: Refiner of the Refiners (Malachi 2:17-3:5)

About this episode

The episode discusses Israel's cynicism and the Lord's response of refinement and purification as described in Malachi.

The sixth disputation of Malachi opens with a damning charge: Israel's cynicism has crossed from lamentation into active distortion of justice — calling evil good and demanding a God of justice they don't actually want. Meyers, Roberts, and Bejon explore how the Lord's answer to that hollow provocation is a coming that refines rather than destroys, purifying the sons of Levi so that right offerings — and right lives — can at last be brought before him. Along the way the conversation moves through the second temple's peculiar vacancy, the mincha offering as tribute of human work, and the Lord's role as expert witness in a divine lawsuit.

Topics covered

• justice
• refinement
• offerings
• cynicism
• divine lawsuit

Keywords

• Malachi
• justice
• refinement
• offerings
• cynicism
• divine lawsuit
• sons of Levi

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Malachi

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