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Malachi’s next disputation begins with the Lord’s unchanging covenant faithfulness: because Yahweh does not change, Jacob is not consumed.

Meyers, Roberts, and Bejon explore Israel’s insincere question, “How shall we return?” and the Lord’s shocking answer: they have been robbing God in tithes and contributions. Along the way the conversation moves through the temple storehouse, the Torah’s provision for Levites, widows, orphans, and sojourners, the difference between transactional worship and enacted prayer, and the risky faith of giving before the blessing is visible. The episode closes by connecting Malachi’s empty storehouse to Jesus’ denunciation of a temple system that devours widows’ houses — and to the early church’s reversal of that injustice in Acts.

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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.

James Jordan continues his walk through the Book of Revelation.

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James Jordan argues that the Protestant tradition's narrow focus on guilt-and-justification as the entry point to the gospel is increasingly ineffective in a post-Christian culture. Jordan contends that the church must recover a broader, more patristic understanding of the gospel — one that addresses the multiple "faces of death" people actually experience today, particularly isolation and loneliness, and that welcomes the ignorant and broken into community through table fellowship before demanding doctrinal maturity.

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James Jordan continues his walk through the Book of Revelation.

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