God will spread dung on your face
(If you don't give him glory)
1
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory
unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you,
and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
God says,
This commandment is for the priests.
If you won't give glory to my name,
I'll curse you [1],
3
Behold, I will corrupt
your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn
feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
by hurting your children and your descendants,
and spreading dung on your faces. [2]
4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my
covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
That way you'll know that I sent this commandment. [3]
5
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the
fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips:
he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law
at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the
law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
I gave my covenant to Levi because he feared me,
and was afraid of my name. [4]
9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the
people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the
law.
10
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal
treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of
our fathers?
I've made you disgusting to the people.
11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel
and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he
loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Judah has married the daughter of a strange god.
12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar,
out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the
LORD of hosts.
13
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears,
with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the
offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
God will cut off the man who does this,
including masters and scholars.
14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and
the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is
she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Your wife is your companion.
15
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And
wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your
spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the
wife of his youth.
16
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for
one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore
take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17
Ye have wearied the LORD with
your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we
wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of
the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
You've tired God with your words.
Notes
- If ye will not ... give glory unto my name ... I will even send a curse upon you. (v.2)
Give glory to God or he will curse you.
- Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces. (v.3)
Is every word of God pure?
What the Bible says about God
- And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you. (v.4)
Who else would harm your children and spread dung on your face?
- I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. (v.5)
Should we fear God?
- Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. (v.)
Does God ever tire?
- Don't marry the daughter of a strange god.
- Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 2:11
- Seek a godly seed
- She thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
2:14-15
- Take heed to your spirit.
- Take heed to your spirit. 2:15, 2:15
- Be kind to your wife.
- Let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. ... Take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. 2:15-16
- Don't divorce your wife.
- For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment. 2:15-16
- Don't weary the Lord with your words.
- Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. 2:17a
- Don't say, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord."
- Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil
is good in the sight of the LORD. 2:176
- Don't say, "Where is the God of judgment?
- Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, ... Where is the God of judgment?
2:17c
- Dwindling in Unbelief
- Everything in the Old
Testament points to Jesus (Malachi 2:3)
- Is there anything the God of the
Bible could do that a believer wouldn't call good? (2:3)
- What verse is Carrie Prejean
reading? (2:3)
- What if we could edit the Bible? (Opening Karl Giberson's can of worms) (2:3)
- YouTube
- God Wants to Smear Dung on Your Face (2:3)