Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 3:4

4 Then shall the offerings of Judah, and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the dayes of old, and as in former years .

When the Lord, Messenger or Angel of the Covenant, the King Messiah shall be come, and set up his Kingdom, framed his Gospel Church.

The services and duties required of the Church, and performed by it; exprest here, in an allusion to the Law services; such are now fervent Prayers, Psal. 141.2. lively Praises, thankful memorials of the death of Christ in the Sacraments, attentive hearing the word, and giving up our selves, Soul and Body, a holy, living Sacrifice to God, Rom. 12.1. and Almes, Heb. 13.15, 16.

The whole Christian Church, exprest by the names of its Type.

Delightful as sweet odours to the smell, as savoury meats to the taste, as comely objects to the eye, every way acceptable to God.

This acceptance God will give, shall be as great and gracious as ever he gave to any of the Services of his Saints of old, we need not determine the precise times to which these expressions refer. It is certain, God did greatly delight in the Sacrifices and Offerings of his people, when they offered them in right manner. He will give as gracious acceptance still, which implyeth a continuance of these Sacrifices which he will accept, and inferreth that this coming of Christ is not his coming to judge the World, his last coming.

Marginal references: chap. 1.11.; Or, ancient.