The Lord You Are Seeking

"See, I will send My messenger,
who will prepare the way before Me.
Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking
will come to His temple;
the messenger of the covenant,
whom you desire, will come," says the Lord Almighty.

But who can endure the day of His coming?
Who can stand when He appears?
For He will be like a refiner's fire
or a launderer's soap.
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver;
He will purify the Levites
and refine them like gold and silver.
Then the Lord will have men
who will bring offerings in righteousness,
and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem
will be acceptable to the Lord,
as in days gone by, as in former years.

"So I will come near to you for judgment.
I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,
adulterers and perjurers,
against those who defraud laborers of their wages,
who oppress the widows and the fatherless,
and deprive aliens of justice,
but do not fear Me, " says the Lord Almighty.

"I the Lord do not change."

(Malachi 3:1-6)