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Ha Navi Goldstein

Guest Post from God at HA , responding to the prophet Goldtstein

Malachi 2:2-3
If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

“Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.

Hanavi Goldstein is brilliant.  On the Sunday before Easter he evokes the prophet who anticipates the later words of Jesus “Give unto Caesar what is Caesars” <strong>.. what does this mean on April 15?  .. TAX DAY!</strong>
Let Me help my prophet explain:

First, who is this “Malachi?”  Is he MY prophet or a public relations flack?  <strong>Since I know HA followers are illiterate in Greek, let me help Μαλαχίας means messenger … in modern terms this Malachi would be a PR flack.</strong>

If, Malachi/Μαλαχίας  was a flack, was he flacking for Me or for some other employer?

Again the answer is in the text and in Hanavi Gold’s choice of a date .. Tax Day.  In the Hebrew, Malachi/Μαλαχίας exerts the Jews to pay their taxes, the “tithe.” Of course this was never paid to Me, why would G-d need sheckels? The tax was paid to the priests who claimed to be collecting it for me!

The greed of these priests is illustrated byt the rest nof the text.  Μαλαχίας accosts the consumers of his day for the substandard sacrifices…blind, lame and sick animals offered for sacrifice because they thought nobody would notice.

Μαλαχίας tells the public that they are not giving Me all that I deserve .. not because he represents Me but because he represents those who would profit off of my name.

I am that I am.