Central proof text used to argue that John the Baptist prepares the way for Jehovah, yet in the New Testament he prepares the way for Jesus, so Jesus is being identified with Jehovah.
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Malachi 3:1
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1 "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of hosts.
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4
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3
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4
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Cited to argue that God says he will send a messenger before himself and then come to his temple, which was used to support divine visitation in Christ.
The host cited this verse to challenge the claim that Allah cannot be a messenger, arguing from Malachi that the Lord himself is called 'the messenger of the covenant.'
Appealed to in defense of identifying the Angel/Messenger of Yahweh with God himself.
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