Malachi 3:1 The Coming of Yahweh
“Behold I sending messenger of Me and he will prepare Way before Me, and
suddenly He will Come to temple of Him the Lord, Whom you seeking, and the
Messenger of the Covenant, Whom you delighted behold Coming says Yahweh of
Hosts” (Literal English from the Hebrew)
It
is very clear from this passage in Malachi, which is a Prophecy of the Coming of
Yahweh, as Spoken by Yahweh Himself.
The first “mălʼâk”, messenger, is none other than John the Baptist. As we read
in Mark 1:1-4
“The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
As it is written in the prophets,
“Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before
you: the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord! Make his paths straight!’”
John came baptizing in the wilderness
and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins”
The citation in this passage in Mark, is from two Prophecies in the Old
Testament, on the Great Coming of Yahweh. The first is from the passage in
Malachi 3:1, and the second, from Isaiah 40:3-5:
“The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!
Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made
low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain. Yahweh’s
glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of
Yahweh has spoken it.”
In
both passages, we have The Speaker as Yahweh Himself, Who Speaks of His own
Coming.
The second “mălʼâk”, we have in Malachi 3:1, is “The Messenger of the Covenant”,
Who is also “The Lord (hā·’ā·ḏō·wn)”, Jesus Christ.
The Way prepared by John the Baptist, is for the Coming of Yahweh Himself, Who
is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. The Four Gospel Accounts are very
clear, that the passage in Isaiah, is fulfilled in the First Coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ, which is also The Coming of ʼĕlôhîym.
It
is abundantly clear from the actual Testimony of Scripture, that The Coming of
Jesus Christ, is the fulfilment of Old Testament Prophecy, for The Coming of
Yahweh.
It
is beyond comprehension, how some would argue, that Jesus Christ is in any way
“inferior” to God the Father, and not Almighty God? The Testimony from the very
Word of God, in the Holy Bible, clearly Teaches, that God the Son, Himself
Yahweh, was the Person Who Came, Who was Born of the Virgin Mary.
There is not a single verse in the entire 66 Books of the Holy Bible, that says,
God the Father ever came to earth!
Both passages of Prophecy in the Old Testament, are literally fulfilled in The
Coming of The Lord Jesus Christ.
We
have in Malachi and Isaiah, Jesus Christ as referred to as Yahweh and ʼĕlôhîym,
which is impossible to be used for a created person, or anyone who is not
Almighty God. The Name Yahweh means the Uncreated, Eternal, Self-Existing,
Creator God.
Anyone who will still believe in the heresy, that Jesus Christ is a created
person, and not coequal with God the Father, especially when the Bible Teaches
that He is, has been deceived by the father of lies, the devil!
No
other conclusion can be arrived at, from the Testimony of Scripture, as we see,
that Jesus Christ is indeed Himself, YHWH, and therefore 100% COEQUAL with God
the Father, in the Eternal Godhead.