Westminster Talking the Text Podcast for Sunday, November 16, 2025 | Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost | Malachi 4:1-2 & Luke 21:5-19 | with Donovan Drake, Guy Griffith, Ashley Higgins, Will Wellman, and Stephanie Boaz

Westminster Talking the Text Podcast for Sunday, November 16, 2025 | Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost | Malachi 4:1-2 & Luke 21:5-19 | with Donovan Drake, Guy Griffith, Ashley Higgins, Will Wellman, and Stephanie Boaz

Malachi 4:1-2

A day of healing for the righteous 

4:1See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

4:2 But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Luke 21:5-19

Suffering for Jesus' sake 

21:5When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said,

21:6"As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down."

21:7They asked him, "Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?"

21:8And he said, "Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, 'I am he!' and, 'The time is near!' Do not go after them.

21:9"When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately."

21:10Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

21:11there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues; and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven.

21:12"But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

21:13This will give you an opportunity to testify.

21:14So make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance;

21:15for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.

21:16You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

21:17You will be hated by all because of my name.

21:18But not a hair of your head will perish.

21:19By your endurance you will gain your souls.

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