Advent Reading - December 22

AC 2906 [6]

Behold I send My angel,
and he shall prepare the way before Me;
and the Lord whom ye seek
shall suddenly come to His temple,
even the angel of the covenant
whom ye desire;
behold He comes, said Jehovah Zebaoth;
and who may endure the day of His coming?
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
be pleasant unto Jehovah,
according to the days of an age,
and according to the ancient years.
(Malachai 3:1-2, 4)

AC 2906 [6]

. . . where the advent of the Lord is treated of;
the “days of an age” denote the Most Ancient Church;
“ancient years,” the Ancient Church;
the “offering of Judah,” worship from celestial love;
and the “offering of Jerusalem,”
worship from spiritual love;
that Judah is not meant here, nor Jerusalem, is plain.