It's been a while, but at last

 Another parable 

I continue to hear stories from Scripture as parables. For aren’t they all finally, in one way or another, about “the kingdom of God”? Especially the stories the prophets tell: They are about what God is going to do when God gets around to doing it, sometimes now, sometimes later, and sometimes already? They begin really as Jesus’ parables do, “The kingdom of God - it’s like this, isn’t it?”

     In today’s lesson, from the first chapter of Malachi, what God has already been doing — it’s hating and loving; they are inextricably linked: Our little minds cannot separate them.

Who have ears, my children, let them hear.

The parable of the Jacob and Esau according to Malachi, the prophet.
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 You can find links to other stories from that notorious biblical paraphrase, the Ted Riich Version, by clicking here: the TRV. You can read the parable here.

                                                                           08.17.23