In this hope filled section of the book of Malachi we hear this message at the onset of the verses “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed“(Mal 3:6).

That statement of God is a declaration that all men will be saved through the judgement of God upon us that will destroy everything that defiles the temple of God which we are (1Co 3:16).

The salvation of all is the main theme throughout God’s word, starting in the garden of Eden where a flaming sword that represents His eternal words (Gen 3:24 , Jer 5:14) turns every way to guard the way of the tree of life that represents Christ, the word of God.

God purposed that whole event that was set in the garden of Eden being worked according to the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11) that would have Adam and Eve driven from the garden, just as the prodigal son who would squander his inheritance being drawn away and tempted of the devil as Adam and Eve were at that time (Luk 15:11-21).

The verses in Malachi go on to explain how mankind without the indwelling of God’s spirit would never be able to keep the ordinances of God and the inditement is made very clear that we naturally without the mind of Christ would rob God of “tithes and offerings“.

The tithe represents our fleshly life that cannot go whole heartedly toward Christ unless we are dragged their of God (Joh 6:44). But when we are dragged then the reality of God’s power becomes real as were shown the beasts that we are (Ecc 3:18), having occupied the temple with our own self-centered, self-righteous idea of who God is. That self-willed spirit that God causes (Isa 45:7 , Rom 9:18-21) is what Christ must drive out of us via His judgements that are represented by this parable that shows Christ cleansing the temple to make it a place where we can worship God in spirit and in truth (Luk 15:11-31 , Joh 4:23-24).

Without that cleansing process, which includes the chastening and scourging of the beasts to get them out of this holy place (Heb 12:6 , 1Co 3:16), there can be no right spiritual relationship with God. What we’re shown in these verses of Malachi is that God will in time judge all mankind and “rebuke the devourer for your sakes” meaning the beast will by God’s power and might be driven out of the temple and then we will become “a delightsome land“.

That process takes a life time to happen and so as God’s pronouncing the victory that will come in time He also declares the intended struggle that must accompany our going from a place of having worshipped God from a carnal “stout heart” that is a self-willed beast that occupies the temple of God to one that will ultimately be received of God and be brought into subjection unto Christ (1Co_15:24-28).

1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

That salvation process has an order to it, and many are called and the few weak of the world are chosen as a kind of first fruits to reveal how God can make his strength perfect through weak flesh so that all glory and honour are His (Mat 22:14 , 1Co 1:26 , Jas 1:18).

Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

1Co 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

The fruit that is evidence in the lives of those few who are being saved in this life is stated with these words “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“, and then to cap off the chapter we are given the utmost assurance from a loving God and Father that what He has started in us will mercifully be finished through Christ, revealed with these words “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“.

As a result of that process of judgement that begins at the house of God (1Pe_4:17) we will in turn be made ready as kings and priests to judge the world, “Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not“. That judgement begins in the life of the few who come to see the mountainous sins of mount Esau that represents all of the sin of the world that we are guilty of, and that are within us with the potential to come forth if God would cause that (Oba 1:21 , 1Jn 2:15-17). The hardest and most insidious of all those sins is the sin of self-righteousness where we declare our own free moral agency before God and don’t see ourselves as merely clay in the Potter’s hand whose choices both good and evil are caused of God who is working all things according to the counsel of His own will (Eph 1:11 , Isa 45:7). The destruction of the man of perdition who sits on the throne of our hearts where Christ  belongs is only typified by Judas and is part of the counsel of God’s will and has an appointed time to happen to every soul. All men will be saved including Judas via the destruction of that man of sin, and Judas was sacrificed in this age to show all mankind how destructive and deluded our lives can become if we are not strengthened through Christ and the hand of Satan is not stayed. He was purposed to do what he did from the foundation of the world “that the scripture might be fulfilled” (2Th_2:1-4 , Joh_17:12).

Oba 1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S.

1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

2Th 2:1  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Joh 17:12  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Here’s the link to the studies thus far completed, with Chapters 1, 2 & Chapter 3: The Book of Malachi studies