WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT

 MALACHI 3:1-7

BEHOLD, I WILL SEND MY MESSENGER, AND HE SHALL PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME: AND THE LORD WHOM YE SEEK, SHALL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE, EVEN THE MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT, WHOM YE DELIGHT IN: BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
BUT WHO MAY ABIDE THE DAY OF HIS COMING? AND WHO SHALL STAND WHEN HE APPEARETH? FOR HE IS LIKE A REFINER'S FIRE, AND LIKE FULLER'S SOAP:
AND I WILL COME NEAR TO YOU TO JUDGMENT: AND I WILL BE A SWIFT WITNESS AGAINST THE SORCERERS, AND AGAINST THE ADULTERERS, AND AGAINST FALSE SWEARERS, AND AGAINST THOSE THAT OPPRESS THE HIRELING IN HIS WAGES, THE WIDOW, AND THE FATHERLESS, AND THAT TURN ASIDE THE STRANGER FROM HIS RIGHT, AND FEAR NOT ME, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.
WITH OUR MOUTHS WE SPEAK THAT WE SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD. YET, OUR ACTIONS SHOW THAT WE ARE NOT READY. THEY HAVE PROFANED THE SANCTUARY, THEY HAVE TRAMPLED THE WORD OF GOD AND THE FALSE BRETHREN HAVE CREPT IN STEALING THE WORDS OF THE TRUE PROPHETS AND MAKING MOCKERY AMONG THE SAINTS OF THE LIVING GOD. THEY HAVE TAKEN WHAT'S HOLY AND PROFANED THE ALTAR, THE PRAYERS, THE WORSHIP, THE PRAISE. THE FEAR OF THE LORD HAS BECOME A JOKE AMONG HIS OWN CHOSEN. THEY HAVE DEALT TREACHEROUSLY WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD AS WELL AS EACH OTHER. HOW HAVE THE PEOPLE OF GOD TURNED FORM HIS ORDINANCES? WHERE HAS THE LAW OF TRUTH GONE? HAS NOT ELIJAH COME? HAS NOT THE LORD POURED OUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT. WHO CAN STAND IN THE DAY OF VISITATION?
YE SORCERERS WHO COVER WITH COVERINGS THAT ARE NOT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, REPENT, LEST YE SUFFER A GREATER JUDGMENT AND BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. YE ADULTERERS, AND FALSE ACCUSERS AND THOSE THAT ARE VOW BREAKERS, REPENT AND RETURN WHILE THE LORD HAS YET GIVEN ROOM FILLED WITH MERCY. FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD BEFORE HIS WRATH COME UPON YOU SWIFTLY. GOD IS NOT A RESPECTOR OF PERSONS. WOE TO THEM THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD FOR SURELY IT IS A DAY OF DARKNESS AND NOT A DAY OF LIGHT.

REV 21:8
BUT THE FEARFUL, AND UNBELIEVING, AND THE ABOMINABLE, AND MURDERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS AND SORCERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE their PAST IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH.