Broken hearts
The previous two posts have discussed how we can despise our spiritual birthright by not valuing our relationship with God. This post takes a look at how the priests and men of Israel were dishonoring their birthrights by despising their relationships with their wives. In Malachi 2:10-11 we see that the men of Israel were profaning their covenant with God by marrying foreign women and divorcing their Jewish wives to do so. The consequence of this was that the Lord refused to regard their offerings anymore and declared that His altar was being covered with tears, weeping and crying. Who was doing the crying does differ between translations but I'm inclined to think it was the rejected wives who were crying out to the Lord for help ( Mal 2.13-14 ). Stop breaking their hearts When Malachi declared this to the priests they responded with " for what reason? ". God informs them that He had seen their treachery when they had divorced their Jewish wives for foreign...