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So the Word of the LORD came unto the prophet Malachi. And this Word of the LORD is for the judgment of those who profane the worship of God.
The burden of the Word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel!
The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel!
The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel!
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. (Mal. 1:1-8)
Malachi, a prophet of the mid-fifth century B.C., is speaking to the Jewish community almost a century after the return from the Babylonian exile. The original enthusiasm and expectation of the tiny remnant who did return had by now turned into frustration and depression. The people had lost faith in God's love for them and had become lax in their worship - conditions which Malachi lays at the feet of the clergy.
So the corrupt priests in Israel, instead of taking the best offering of their flocks, took the lame and the deformed and put that upon the altar, even though the law as stated in Deuteronomy required that animals fit for sacrifice had to be perfect - they could not be blind, lame or have any "ill blemish."1 The whole idea of sacrifice - that the offering to God is something of value that the giver is willing to give up in order to prove his sincerity - was being mocked by these priests.
The term "governor" refers to the governor appointed by the Persians, who ruled the land at that time. The implication is that the priests wouldn't even treat their foreign rulers with as much disrespect as they have treated their God.
Thus, it is a teaching that if we would be priests and priestesses of the sacred fire under the Order of Melchizedek, we must give the sacrifice upon the altar of the firstfruits of our Christhood - not of our human creation, not of that which is dispensable which we desire to be rid of. We must place the very best of ourselves, even as Jesus Christ did set the example of giving his Christhood for the salvation of the whole world.
Therefore, the priesthood in Israel was condemned by God for their misuse of the light of the Holy of Holies and, in the performing of their offices, the defilement of the table of sacrifice. The word table as used here means the altar.
Understand that these priests are in the world today. They are a tribe of fallen ones - some reincarnated and others who are of the same ilk. And thus they function as leaders of the people in Church and in State but they do not offer the acceptable offering before the hearts of the people, before the Mighty I AM Presence. They pretend to officiate and to bear the burden of the LORD as they sit in their seats of authority. And yet they do not.
Archangel Michael has called me to read to you from sacred scripture the judgment upon those who hold an office in the name of the people and in the name of God and yet defile the mantle of that office.
The high priest is the Lord Christ, your own beloved Christ Self. And you also have a mantle. It is the mantle of the disciple. Let it not, then, be trailed in the dust of darkness. Let the mantle remain pure and unsullied. And let your office be upheld; for it is the office that was once held by our brother Jesus Christ when he was a disciple on the Path proving the way of his Christhood.
We understand that the judgment and the power of God's judgment as it is written in scripture goes forth again when it is read from the high altar. And all that follows in this vein as the response of the congregation of the righteous (those who in the LORD's righteousness lawfully exercise the power of His Word) is the means of the implementation of the judgment through Archangel Michael, as you have invoked the decree dictated by Jesus Christ - "They Shall Not Pass!"
Thus, in the understanding of the betrayal of the office of priest by some of the Levites - descendants of Levi, the son of Jacob, who were consecrated as the priestly order in ancient Israel - realize that that judgment is sustained until the individual turns away from his sin. Realize that as it was then, so it is today: those who betray the divine calling, whatever their profession or sacred labor, must give accounting under their own I AM Presence.
And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. (Mal. 1:9-10)
The Jerusalem Bible translation illumines the meaning of this passage: "Oh, is there no one among you who will shut the doors and stop you from lighting useless fires on my altar?" In other words, it would be better to close the temple doors and stop sacrificing than to carry on this sham.
Thus, the defilement of the mantle renders null and void your spiritual inheritance - your divine heirship under the laws of Almighty God. If the mantle has been defiled, we are also defiled; therefore let us bring it - and ourselves - to the altar. Let us pray unto the LORD that Archangel Zadkiel will send his violet-flame angels to our side that we might be restored by the mercy of God and by the commitment of our souls to that holy calling to which we were called from the beginning.
From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. (Mal. 1:11)
Thus, as it was given to Jesus Christ and to the apostles, the offering of the Mighty I AM Presence profaned by the priests of the tribe of Levi was then given to all others who are the inheritors of the seed of Light (of the Mighty I AM Presence) throughout the world. And this name I AM THAT I AM, which we do pronounce in great joy, therefore rings from every cathedral, every temple and mosque; for in pronouncing it as the flame of Emmanuel, our God with us, we do take up the fallen mantle.
And from the rising of the sun of the Mighty I AM Presence even unto the going down of the same my name I AM THAT I AM, Yahweh, Elohim, shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name - the incense of the sweetness of our love for God offered up in dynamic decrees. The violet flame is the incense of the ritual of our freedom that we offer, together with the frankincense of our surrender to God's will that brings us to the very heart of the three wise men - and a pure offering (and that pure offering and that only acceptable offering of our Christhood): for my name I AM THAT I AM shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing.
The "weariness" refers to the boredom of the priests in routinely carrying out their rituals. The last verse is directed to the layman, "the deceiver" who sacrifices a blemished animal after he has voluntarily vowed to sacrifice a male from his flock.
For I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. (Mal. 1:12-14)
The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel! (4x)
The LORD I AM THAT I AM will be magnified
in the United States of America! (4x)
The LORD I AM THAT I AM will be magnified
in the Church Universal and Triumphant! (4x)
"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This Pearl is taken from a sermon delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Saturday, February 15, 1986, at the weekend seminar The Healing Power of Angels, held at Camelot.