Malachi 2,Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi

Malachi 2 Book of Malachi

Malachi 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

The Priests reproved, commandment given, this commandment as to reformation

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.

Punishment threatened, God said, If you don't listen to Me, I will send a curse upon you
Leviticus 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
Psalms 20:1 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Send a curse refers to, Deuteronomy 28:20 The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

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.

Corrupt = rebuke
Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

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.

God said, You will know I sent theses curses.

5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear where with he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

Verses 5-7 Covenant with Levi
My covenant was with him, refers to Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

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.

This was the first duty of the priests, and was more important than their ceremonial duties.
Deuteronomy 17:11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

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.

Commandment disobeyed
God said, you have departed from Me, and cause many to stumble at My law
Any time (you teach man word), you cause people to stumble and depart from God.
God's going to punished the pastors. If you cause His children to stumble and depart from His laws.

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.

Punished administered, if you don't kept My laws and ways.

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?

Abraham was to be the blessing to all man
The people reproved
God said, I created all. Why are you breaking My laws?
Judah's treacherously or faithlessly
Used of faithlessness to the marriage bond.

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.

God's warning to Judah
Holiness = Holy Place or Sanctuary
Which = The Sanctuary
This was an an abomination, Strange = foreign: a woman temple-worshipper of a foreign god. (Ezra 8)

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.

The master and the scholar = awakener and answerer
Referring to the Temple watchers
I will cut off the man that does this
Psalms 134:1 Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
3 The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
Tabernacles = tents
Offereth, bringeth near a meal offering

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.

Weeping...crying out of the wrong wives and children

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.

I do not accept this.
Companion = mate

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.

Why did God create Adam?
Where Christ would come through Adam seed line.
Modern critics pronounce this as being "a difficult and certainly corrupt passage".
Make one? Make (of twain) one flesh?
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Yet had He, and therefore could have made more than one wife for Adam.
Wherefore one? And what (did) that one (Abraham) who (was) seeking a seed of (or from) God?
Was Abraham faithless to Sarah and did he ill-treat her when he took an additional wife?
How much more ought ye to be faithful to your wives?
Isaiah 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

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.

For (as) hating putting away, hath God. God spoken; and (as hating him that) hath carried violence concealed in his clothing, hath God Sabaioth spoken, therefore.
Putting away = divorce
Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.
11 And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.

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?

Everyone, "All who do wrong are" violence.
You can't teach evil is good.
Easter eggs hunts right in the house of God, sun worshipping, etc..

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