_🌿Daily Reading for Wednesday December 23, 2020_
*FIRST READING*
_Before the day of the Lord comes, I send Elijah the Lord to you._
*A reading from Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24*
'Look, I shall send my messenger to clear a way before me. And suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to his Temple; yes, the angel of the covenant, for whom you long, is on his way, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
Who will be able to resist the day of his coming? Who will remain standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire, like fullers' alkali.
He will take his seat as refiner and purifier; he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they can make the offering to Yahweh with uprightness.
The offering of Judah and Jerusalem will then be acceptable to Yahweh as in former days, as in the years of old.
'Look, I shall send you the prophet Elijah before the great and awesome Day of Yahweh comes.
He will reconcile parents to their children and children to their parents, to forestall my putting the country under the curse of destruction.'
*The Word of the Lord*
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