Malachi on Repentance and Love — Stephen Kaung

This is Sunday evening March 3rd 1974 in Richmond, Virginia. Ministry is given through brother Stephen Kong.

Malachi’s Opening Dialogue: God’s Love and Israel’s Question

The the last book in the Old Testament the book of Malachi Malachi chapter 1 will read the first five verses the burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi. I Have loved you say Jehovah. But ye say wherein has thou loved us.

Was not Esau Jacob's brother says Jehovah, and I loved Jacob and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation and Gave his inheritance to the Jekyll's of the wilderness. If Edom said we are broken down, but we will build again the ruined places.

Thus says Jehovah of hosts They shall build but I will throw down and they shall call them the territory of wickedness and the people against whom Jehovah had indignation forever and your eyes shall see it and ye shall say Jehovah is magnified beyond the border of.

Recently we have been Fellowship being together here Mainly on the history of the recovery of the children of Israel and in connection with that history we have the prophecies of Hevi I Zechariah and now Malachi, so I hope that we will still remember.

This is the general setting of Our fellowship during the time of the recovery you remember how God Raised up leaders such as the rubble and Joshua the rubble of the descendants of King David the royal family and Joshua the descendants of Aaron the priestly family and Under the joint leadership of these two men arraignment of the Jewish people in captivity Responded to God's call.

They left Babylon their return To Jerusalem with just one purpose and one only they returned for the sole reason of Rebuilding the temple of God in other words their return was for the recovery of the testimony of God.

After the return the next year they started to lay the foundation of The temple but soon they met opposition and difficulty and you remember how their hands were weakened and They left off the world for about 14 years.

And he was at that time that God raised up to poppies in the persons of Zechariah and Hevi I and through the prophecies of these two men the spirit of the rubble The spirit of Joshua and the spirit of the remnant were once again being stirred.

And they began to rebuild the temple until it was completed. So here you'll find in the recovery of the temple two prophets. Two prophets were raised up by God to help and to strengthen The work of the recovery and tonight we find the prophecies of Malachi.

The Bible says three-fourth a three-fourth chord is Not easily broken. So here you'll find the Lord not only raised up two prophets, but three. But of course Malachi prophesied much later Than the day of Hevi I and Zechariah as a matter of fact most likely He prophesied during the time of Nehemiah.

So again, you'll find here In the case of the rubble and Joshua you have the two prophets Hevi I and Zechariah helping them and in the case of Nehemiah you have a prophet Malachi Helping them from the return the first of the first group of the Jewish remnant from Babylon to Jerusalem.

To the time that Malachi began to prophesy He was almost a hundred years. And if you read the book of Nehemiah You will probably come to understand That Malachi most likely prophesied either during the time of Nehemiah's absence from Jerusalem.

Or he started to prophesy after Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem for a second visit. You remember how Nehemiah went to Jerusalem and his whole Burden was to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and he was in Jerusalem for 12 years as the governor there.

And it was during his time you'll find not only the wall of Jerusalem was rebuilt But many other things were being done. They made a covenant with God To keep the commandment of God and how some of the people Moved into Jerusalem to strengthen the city life there and how they even offer themselves out of their free will every person a third of a shackle each year for the sanctuary of God and They even offer wood offering which was not commanded.

But it was something done out of their free will to show their love for God and How they began to bring in time and first fruit So that the Levites and the priests might serve faithfully in the house of God and all these things Happen during the time of Nehemiah.

It was quite a reformation. It was quite a strengthening among the remnants and then Nehemiah being the cup bearer. You remember of the Persian king? He had to return to the Persian court and we do not know how long he stayed there Because the Bible was silent on this point.

But we know of one thing after a period of time He returned to Jerusalem for a second visit and brothers and sisters. When he came back to Jerusalem for a second visit You'll find that in Nehemiah chapter 13 in Nehemiah chapter 13 begin with verse 6.

Probably we'll just read a verse or two to show the connection Nehemiah chapter 13 verse 6 and During all that time. I was not at Jerusalem. For in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I came to the king and After some time now how long we don't know I obtained leave of the king.

He had the second leave of Athens. And he returned to Jerusalem and I came to Jerusalem. That was to say that Nehemiah came back to Jerusalem for the second time. And do you know what happened After his short absence it seemed as if all the reform that he had done in Jerusalem were Here you'll find him.

Nehemiah’s Four Discoveries of Spiritual Decline

I came back and he saw four things there number one I came to Jerusalem and observed the Evil that Eliaship had done to Tobiah in preparing him a chamber in the court of the house of God and it really much Eliaship was the high priest at that time and Yes, he prepared a place for Tobiah in the Court of the house of God and you know who Tobiah was.

Because Tobiah was a renegade he was a Jew and Yet, he was so morally and spiritually degraded that he sold himself To an Ammonite so the Bible said Tobiah the Ammonite. He was actually a Jew because Tobiah was a Jewish name but he became an Ammonite and he was an enemy of the people of God how he tried every way to Weaken the hands of Nehemiah when he was rebuild the wall and yet here you'll find because he has Marriage relationships in his family with the priestly family.

So the result was when Nehemiah was away Eliaship the high priest even prepared a house of Rome In the court of the house of God for Tobiah. That Rome or Rome Were supposed to be a chamber for the oblation and the frankincense people offer their offerings to God and these things were put in these chambers and Rome and Instead of putting these frankincense and oblations there he Made a place for Tobiah the enemy.

So when Nehemiah saw that he was greatly grieved and he cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber and he commanded and they purify the chamber and They brought in again the vessels of the house of God the oblation and the frankincense Going that that was the first thing he observed and then the second thing and I perceived He saw another evil That the portions of the Levi's had not be given and that the Levi's and the singers that did the work had fled everyone to his field.

You know the Levi's were supposed to serve in the house of God. And they were to be sustained by the tithe by the first fruit that the children of Israel will bring into the house and Yet during his absence the children of Israel failed to bring in the tithe and the first fruit.

So the Levi's they all fled to their own field they kill their own field in order to Support themselves. The house of God was left there unmanaged or Insufficiently. That was the second and the third verse 15.

And in those days I saw in Judah some Treading wine presses on the Sabbath and bringing sheaves and baiting them on ashes as also wine grapes and figs and all manner of Verdants and they brought them into Jerusalem of the Sabbath day and I protested in the day on which they stole the victuals man of fire also dwelt therein who brought fish and all manner of wear and stole it on the Sabbath to the children of Judah and The Sabbath was violated.

The Sabbath was the sign of God's covenant with the children of Israel and Yet here you'll find they did not keep the Sabbath on the Sabbath day. They brought the wine press on the Sabbath day they loaded The ashes on the Sabbath day.

They even allowed a man of time to sell fish and all the other wares in Jerusalem and in the other cities of Judah They violated. That was the third and then the fourth verse 23 and in those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod of Ammon and of Moab and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod and could not speak in the Jewish language but according to the language of even though at the time of Ezra those that were married with foreign people how they repented and How they dealt with the situation and yet after a certain period of time the same old thing Returned again, and here you'll find again.

They married the Ashdod they married the foreign wives and they had children and the children even could not speak the Jewish language. So when Nehemiah came back for the second visit He saw all these evil Were spreading among the remnants the children and brothers and sisters.

If you read the book of Mennonite You will find that the prophecies of Mennonite were actually Directed against the Jewish remnants during that period. Because the problem that he mentioned in his book Were the evils were the things that Nehemiah find when he returned for a second visit to the Jews.

So that is the reason why We believe that most probably meet Malachi prophesied either during the period of Nehemiah's absence as A preparation for Nehemiah's return or he prophesied after Nehemiah returned.

In other words, he cooperated with Nehemiah Strengthened his hand in this matter of bringing the people the remnants back to God. Now that was the background the setting of it. I think we need to know this in order to appreciate the book of Malachi now remember one thing.

The Remnant’s History of Zeal, Reformation, and Decline

About a hundred years period was covered from the return of the first group of the Jewish remnants in Jerusalem. To the time of the prophecies of Malachi when they first came back. They were a people Who responded to God with all their heart.

Most of the children of Israel. Most of the Jews were so settled down and comfortable in the foreign soil. They didn't even bother to return. They didn't care for the testimony of God. They were interested in building their own self.

But here you'll find a remnant who were willing to leave everything behind. Who were willing to face every danger. Who were willing to come back to Jerusalem for the testimony of God. People this people must be.

Now we will expect such a people. Surely they will be maintained on a spiritual plateau as it were. Certainly you will not expect them to fall down so low and Yes. If you read a hundred years history you'll find all the.

They came back full of zeal of enthusiasm they came back full of first love and Immediately after they came back. They started to lay the foundation of the temple. In other words they meant business with the Lord and Yet.

And what did they do during those 40 years they were building their own houses. They say it was not time to build a house of God. So God say is it time for you to build your house and let a house of God in ruin?

There was a controversy between God and the Jewish and then again. You'll find for the prophecies of heavy. I and Zechariah how they were aroused and awakened again. And they finished building the house of God.

They were up again and yet. After 70 years of their return Ezra came back and what did Ezra found? He came back to beautify the house of God. He came back to reestablish the law of God among his people.

So, what did he find? After he came back He was told how the people and the leaders were those that were leading in this matter. They married all. They were not. And you remember again and Ezra how they repented and they really repented.

I think they deal with the situation and everything seemed to go up again, you know. And then Nehemiah came back 13 years later and Started to rebuild the wall and everything was on a spiritual height again.

And after his absence was short period down. That was the history of a people who were not only You with the New Testament turn saved by grace but who have really committed themselves to the Lord and Yet in the history of such a people you'll find such a how weak Oh brothers in history.

Saved by Grace Yet Dependent on the Lord

When you read about such things You cannot but humble yourself. Do nothing because you're saved by grace. But many who are saved by grace do not care about the interest of God. They are still interested in them.

Do not think that because you're saved by grace and by his grace you were quickened. To commit yourself to the Lord you are committed to his purpose. You are committed to his work. You're committed to his glory and because of that you are better than other Christians.

If it's not because of the mercy of God you may at one time seemingly at the top. But you'll never know How we need to look to the Lord for his teaching. There is no guarantee in us. There is no guarantee in the flesh.

One day by the grace of God you may reach the height. But the next day if you don't look to the Lord you may fall into the deepest. Oh how we need to rely on the Lord. Paul said I know whom I and I'm fully persuaded.

That he is able to keep that which I have committed to him until that day. We have one who is at the right hand of the Father making intercession for us and he is able to save us to the uttermost. He is.

Oh how we need to trust ourselves to him and not in any way. Become self-confident. I think there is a letter for it. Manichae. The book of Manichae was the last book of the Old Testament. In other words His voice was the last voice of the Old Testament.

After that voice God was silent for four hundred years. Until the time when Christ shall come and then you remember God sent another voice. Before Christ the voice of John the Baptist as a voice in the world so here you'll find in the book of Manichae the last voice of God to his people his people the children of Israel and the children of Israel was represented by the Jewish Revenue and The last voice of God came to them through the prophet Manichae and then God.

But when you heard The 400 years later you heard the first voice in the New Dispensation. You find the foot of the thing. There is a link between the Old Dispensation and the New Dispensation the same way.

The same voice of God we know absolutely nothing. He didn't tell us anything about his sister. He didn't even tell us who were his parents. Where was he born. What kind of background he had. He was like John the Baptist just a voice.

He had no intention for people to notice him because he was just. The voice will pass. But those that Heard the voice might see the Lord. So Manichae the name Manichae means messenger of Jehovah messenger of John of Jehovah.

Now whether that was his real name. Or whether it was a name he took up as a title, you know. Because he was a messenger of Jehovah. We don't know but there is no reason why Manichae was not his real name because you know with the children of Israel among the children of Israel.

They often take name like that. So his name was Manichae messenger. He was but he was one sang by the Lord to bring a message to his people. And what was the message brothers and sisters if you read the book of Manichae you can read it easily in one sitting because Only very short.

You know four chapters short chapters and yet Not like the other books in the Bible you cannot divide the book of Manichae. Well this matter of dividing into chapters. Actually, you know, it was for conveniences, but it wasn't in the original and As a matter of fact the whole book of Manichae was just one this messenger Delivered only one message to God's people.

Therefore you'll find in the beginning in the first verse of the first chapter He said the burden of the Word of Jehovah to Israel by Manichae. That was it. All that follows are in that one burden of The Word of Jehovah.

You know, there is a connection between burden and the world the word of the Lord Constitutes a burden and the burden Creates here you'll find it is not just word. But behind Behind the word or within the word is a burden brothers and sisters.

The Burden of the Word and the Closing of the Age

When you try to separate a burden from the word the word becomes and a letter Q. But when Behind the word there is the burden than the spirit. You may say the same word if there is a burden there it quickens.

But if there is no burden there near words, it is better that you The Prophet Manichae he not only received the word from the Lord But when the word comes to him he receives a burden in other words Being down with in his spirit.

There was a burden and when the burden pressed very Hard upon him when he was even burdened before the Lord then the word began to flow. So here you'll find the burden of the word of the Lord. There was a burden there one burden many words.

No matter how many words That might come forth the burden was just one and you know the burden of the word of the Lord Was the burden of Malachi and Malachi's burden was the burden dear brothers and sisters the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi is very relevant because Malachi lived at the closing of the old the last voices and then Shortly four hundred years later in that case brothers and sisters Are we not living at the closing of this?

Malachi live at a closing of the dispensation of the law and we are living at the end of the dispensation of May I just get one thought After this dispensation of grace is ended Then God will usher in his kingdom the kingdom of God shall be upon this earth.

It is the dispensation of righteousness. Because according to the book of Isaiah Righteousness shall rule during the kingdom so we are living at a closing of the Dispensation of grace at the close of the dispensation of the law the cunning of the Messiah at the closing of the dispensation of grace the second coming and the closing of the old dispensation as a preparation for the coming of the Messiah you find a voice a message a burden and It was a message a burden to home not to the world.

Not even to the all the children of Israel. Yes, it was. It was for all the children of Israel but it was Especially drastic brothers and sisters. I want you to To see me to have the right perspective, you know God was not speaking to the world through the Prophet Manaka.

God was speaking to Israel. But Israel was represented by the Jewish Bremen who were in Jerusalem and in the city of Judah. Not those that were scattered all over the world. They did not represent Israel.

They were Israelites, but they could not represent Israel. Israel as before God was represented by this Jewish Bremen. Why because they were supposed to be the people who responded to God? The vessel for the testimony of God on earth and The burden of the world what is there any word that God wants to speak to his people today?

Before the return know a lot of people today are interested in prophecy. Thank God for that. We open a bookstore in Washington and when I was there a few people came in and asked for books on prophecy because They were interested and I thank God for that.

But you know We are interested in what would happen to this world. Does God have any word about this world? The future of this world the events that will happen in this world. But do we ever ask the Lord.

As we are approaching the end of the dispensation of grace and As the return of our Lord is imminent. Does he have a word for us? You go for the word. Are you the Lord's people? Are you committed to the Lord?

If you are does the Lord has a word for you? What it is burden for you today, is he trying to say something to you is there a message for you. This is what we should be before the Lord and I believe as the burden of the Word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi at that time in that message God Definitely has a message.

Malachi as a Message to the Church: From First Love to Repentance

I don't know how you feel brothers and sisters. When I read the book of Malachi My feeling is I was almost like hearing the Lord Speaking to the church in Laodicea. Almost you can hear the same thing and I think this is where We have to be before the Lord to begin with how should we enter into?

This burden of the word of the Lord to Israel as I mentioned before It is just one person. You cannot divide them into different burden. Just one many words, but one but probably there's one way we can enter into more of the details and That is by going through the questions and the answers.

In other words the whole book of Malachi was written or the message was given in a Dialogical and Dialectical way. In other words, it was a dialogue. It was given as a dialogue. God was Proclaiming something making a statement and The remnant as a question and God Answered their question or God has a question and the remnant Answered and the Lord again answered their answer.

So in other words you'll find the whole book of Malachi was in the form of a dialogue. God was talking to his people and his people was talking back to God and back and forth they talked. You know, that was the way the book of Malachi was written or the message was given.

Just like you'll find Isaiah said the Lord said come and let us reason together. You know the Lord as it were he was reasoning with his people. Oh How he condescended himself to reason with his people.

God does not need to reason with us. There is no reason for him to do so. But when we are not in our right mind. When we are not in our right attitude. When we are not in our right spirit when we are not in our right position God for the love of God he Condescends himself and willing to reason things out he allows us to argue with him and he argues with us and He tried to bring out proof to prove his point.

He could just leave us alone and say now if you don't understand. That's your own fault, but how he wants to he will not let us go he is willing to come down to our place our level and Even to with some such Unreasonable that is so the whole book the whole message was conveyed in that.

So probably by going through these Point after point we may learn some lesson now to begin with we were raised the first point. And that is chapter 1 verse 2 verse 5. I have loved you said Jehovah. But he say wearing The first the first controversy between God and His remnant comes down to just one thing.

God’s Love as the Foundation of Every Relationship

Brothers and sisters is it true? That our whole relationship with the Lord and his relationship with us. When you boys down to the very basics to the very Foundation, what can it be? But this matter of love is not the thing That appear on the surface.

It is the Lord that is at the bottom of everything so here you'll find God message to his people was I Have loved you said Jehovah. God said I have. If the people were sensitive did they need to be told that the Lord has loved them.

When you need to be told something must be wrong you should be sensitive to it and because the people of God at that time were not sensitive and God has to remonstrate with them and say don't you know that I have loved you.

Where in has thou loved us. We do not know if you love us. How do we know you really love us? Where are the evidence? Spiritual. Who are these people they were not the Gentiles. People who did not know God.

They were not even the Israelites commonly speaking. They were the people that came back to Jerusalem for the testimony of God. In other words the testimony of God was entrusted to these people and Yet this people could even say Lord.

Where do you love us? We don't know the problem was on this matter. Brothers and sisters if God should raise an issue with us today, what issue we did raise with you. There may be many other things. There may be lots of things.

But these are only the branches when God deals with us. He always go to the very root of all this. And he will raise one question. I have loved you. Do you know it? What is your response to my love? Do you love me in the case of Peter?

Here you'll find Peter he confessed before the Lord and before his fellow disciples. He said Lord. I will follow you even to death and if all the rest will fall I certainly will not because I'm willing to die for you good heart.

He made it but then he denied the law three times and you remember the Lord appeared to the disciples on that morning and The Lord before the disciples asked Peter just one question Simon son of Jonah, do you love more than these?

Do you really love me? Do you love me? In other words the whole question it is matter God controversy the Lord controversy with the seven churches in Asia in the church in Ephesus. You'll find what was the controversy of the Lord with the church in Ephesus the Lord said I know all your work.

I know your patience. I know your endurance. I know your knowledge. I know you cannot allow permit the false Apostles, I know that you you hate the the way of the Nicolaitans just as I do. I know all of this that you have done, but I am again In spite of all the good things you have I'm against you what because you have left all brothers and sisters as We are approaching the end as the time becomes more and more difficult.

It is a great testing of our love and How we need to be assured by the Lord. The Lord said I have we love because he first. If you appreciate his love if you know his love if you're constrained by his love Then you will love him.

The reason why we have left the first love is because we become insensitive of his love. The Lord said I have oh he must have tried every way to show this love and yet They can still say where do you love us?

We don't know let me use a Very very poor illustration for myself. I was brought up in a family. Our parents love us children very much. We have seven brothers and sisters and all my life before I Graduated from college.

I live in home at home only a few months. I live In a dormitory in school only a few months and then my father took me back Stay home. And when we got sick, you know, our parents did not send us to the hospital.

They nurse us in that kind of but I never appreciate. I often complain because I was Unfortunately in the middle of the seven and you know in the middle of the seven you had a disadvantage. So I was well my father probably loved, you know.

My mother loved my eldest brother and my father loved my younger sister, you know, so All kinds of if you may be in an atmosphere of love. And you just take everything for granted. You don't realize it you don't appreciate it after I graduated from college and The Lord called me I Left home.

I was away from home. I Don't quite remember at the exact time maybe after a six month or few months or so. I don't know. That was the first time I left home for so long, you know, and one day it dawned upon me The love of my parents it may not it may not sound Very special to you, but to me, you know, it just dawned on me.

I Was so overwhelmed When I thought how my parents even when I was in college, you know sometimes at night I Was reading, you know Preparing my lessons on bed and I was so tired. I fell asleep with the light on with a book Falling on the bed, you know and at midnight or after midnight My mother would come in and close the light and put the blankets on me and things like that.

I. But then everything just came back and hit me with such I didn't know what to do. So I wrote a letter to I told him how you know, they're just a poor illustration. But you know the Lord love us so much.

Oh, we are just Wrapped up in his love. He must have tried Thousand-one ways to show his love to us and yet we just take everything for granted. He's great. His love is just too great. It's too much and when it's too much you don't feel it.

You have too much of the sunshine. You don't feel it. Too much of the air. You don't feel it until it's polluted. It is just too much you don't feel it and you can even talk back and say where in has our love.

We become so Brothers and sisters, we are not appreciated as we should the reason why we need to come to the Lord. To remember him to break the bread to drink the cup. You know why? You know why? Why is it the Lord said do this in remembrance of me?

He knows how forgetful we are. He knows how insensitive we are. He knows how we take everything for granted. We are not thankful. We are not grateful. We do not appreciate. So the Lord said you need to have appreciative spirit.

That that is good for you. So remember me. When you come to remember the Lord you cannot but appreciate it and you know. When you begin to realize how much love you begin, that's how you restore your first love.

First love is not in you. Love comes from God. It's only when you begin to appreciate his love for you. Then love will begin to come forth from you. That's how we we need to be maintained in first love we need to be restored.

Our people came back for the testimony of God Should fail in the first and if they shall fail in the first love they fail at everything. There is the testimony of God. If it is to be born by a people who do not even know what love is.

Everything would just become formality orthodoxy formality. God said I I'm not just talking to love you now, but I have loved you. I have been loving you all the time. I have never changed and yet they say where you have done.

We don't even know that you love us. The Lord said all right I approve it was not Esau Jacob's brother said Jehovah. And I love Jacob and I hated Esau and Jacob they were brothers. When they were in a mother's womb, you remember how they fought.

Esau came out first but Jacob held Esau's heel and Followed out everyone who read who read the Old Testament about Esau and Jacob everyone Decided with Esau because Esau he was rough. At least he was open, you know.

He was a kind of person, you know can get along very well. He is very forgetful and that's good. He did not remember everything in his heart, you know. So far as human nature was concerned Esau had a much better Not nature much better temperament Than Jacob.

Jacob was that little tricky, you know deceiving person. Using his mind too much, you know that kind of person. You are free. So when you read the scripture probably you as a well Esau I would rather have Esau than Jacob.

But that's where God is different. God said I love Jacob. I hated Esau. Now, of course later on you why if you read Hebrews chapter 12, you know what in Hebrews chapter 12 16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one meal stole his birthright.

So, you know that also afterwards desiring to inherit the blessing. He was rejected for he found no place for repentance, although he started earnestly with tears. Esau was a worldly person just for the now.

He stole his birthright for a bowl of soup he lost the blessing of the firstborn. Even he started with tears, but there was no repentance. In other words, he was a wordly he had no spiritual desire. He lived for the present the temporal he saw nothing special in spiritual.

A Profane, of course Jacob. At least he saw the value of the birthright. He sought for spiritual things in his own way and for that he was disciplined but still. You'll find finally he became evil. But anyway here you'll find God said I love Jacob.

I Hated Esau. You say wherein have you love us? Look at Jacob your father. Such a man as Jacob and you know him and yet I love Jacob and I Return to Romans 9 and then you'll find the election of God. Romans 9 verse and not only that but redacted having conceived by one Isaac our father the children indeed being not yet born or having done anything good or worthless.

That the purpose of God according to election my device not of works. But of him that called it was said to her the greater shall serve the less. According as it is written. I have loved Esau loved Jacob and I have hated.

Even before they were born. To show that he was election it was not my work. It was God's call. He loved Jacob. He hated. Do not ask me how to explain divine election. I cannot but do you know one thing?

You can read the scripture in the right way and you can read the scripture in the wrong way. When you read that scripture and you ask the question, why is it that God should love Jacob and hate? Hated Esau.

Why that wasn't fair. That's the wrong way to read the scripture. Because the scripture is there not for you to ask such a question. Divine election is God's priority but if you Learn to read a scripture in the right way.

Now, what is the right way? The right way is Lord. I Love you. Now, that's the right way to read. So do not try to defend Esau. Let's leave him alone. But since we are Jacob Let's see that how the Lord.