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Episode 879: Robbing the Storehouse (Malachi 3:6–12) May 20, 2026

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Malachi’s next disputation begins with the Lord’s unchanging covenant faithfulness: because Yahweh does not change, Jacob is not consumed. Meyers, Roberts, and Bejon explore Israel’s insincere question, “How shall we return?” and the Lord’s shocking answer: they have been robbing God in tithes and contributions. Along the way the conversation moves through the temple storehouse, the Torah’s provision for Levites, widows, orphans, and sojourners, the difference between transactional worship and enacted prayer, and the risky faith of giving before the blessing is visible. The episode closes by connecting Malachi’s empty storehouse to Jesus’ denunciation of a temple system that devours widows’ houses — and to the early church’s reversal of that injustice in Acts. GIVE TO THEOPOLIS! theopolisinstitute.com/give/ Get the Theopolis App! app.theopolisinstitute.com/menu Use Code "theopolitan" to get your first month free! Sign up for In Medias Res mailchi.mp/0b01d726f2fe/inmediasres

Episode 878: Refiner of the Refiners (Malachi 2:17-3:5) May 13, 2026

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The sixth disputation of Malachi opens with a damning charge: Israel's cynicism has crossed from lamentation into active distortion of justice — calling evil good and demanding a God of justice they don't actually want. Meyers, Roberts, and Bejon explore how the Lord's answer to that hollow provocation is a coming that refines rather than destroys, purifying the sons of Levi so that right offerings — and right lives — can at last be brought before him. Along the way the conversation moves through the second temple's peculiar vacancy, the mincha offering as tribute of human work, and the Lord's role as expert witness in a divine lawsuit.

Episode 877: The Triumph of the Witnesses (Revelation 11:7-12), with James Jordan May 08, 2026

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James Jordan continues his walk through the Book of Revelation. To listen to this ENTIRE series right now (with class notes!), download the Theopolis App! Use the code "theopolitan" to get your first month for FREE. app.theopolisinstitute.com/menu

Episode 876: Rethinking Evangelism, with James Jordan May 06, 2026

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James Jordan argues that the Protestant tradition's narrow focus on guilt-and-justification as the entry point to the gospel is increasingly ineffective in a post-Christian culture. Jordan contends that the church must recover a broader, more patristic understanding of the gospel — one that addresses the multiple "faces of death" people actually experience today, particularly isolation and loneliness, and that welcomes the ignorant and broken into community through table fellowship before demanding doctrinal maturity. To listen to this ENTIRE series right now (with class notes!), download the Theopolis App! Use the code "theopolitan" to get your first month for FREE. app.theopolisinstitute.com/menu

Episode 875: Plagues (Revelation 11:5-6), with James Jordan May 01, 2026

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Episode 874: Covenant Amnesia and Constant Prayer (with Brian Moats) Apr 29, 2026

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A sermon from Brian Moats from Philippians 4 on covenant amnesia and constant prayer. GIVE TO THEOPOLIS! theopolisinstitute.com/give/ Get the Theopolis App! app.theopolisinstitute.com/menu Use Code "theopolitan" to get your first month free! Sign up for In Medias Res mailchi.mp/0b01d726f2fe/inmediasres

Episode 873: The Two Witnesses (Revelation 11:3-4), with James Jordan Apr 24, 2026

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Episode 872: Marriage, Covenant, and the Temple (Malachi 2:13–16) Apr 22, 2026

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Picking up at Malachi 2:13, Peter Leithart, Jeff Meyers, Alastair Roberts, and James Bejon turn to Yahweh's second charge against Judah in this section: the treacherous dismissal of the wives of their youth. The conversation traces the double register of the passage (the covenant of individual marriage and Yahweh's own bridal relationship with Israel and his sanctuary) and asks whether the same typological layering found in verses 10–12 continues here. Considerable attention falls on the notoriously difficult verse 15, with James Bejon guiding the group through the Hebrew: the one father who makes husband and wife one, the remnant of the spirit, and the seeking of godly (zera' Elohim) seed. The discussion moves into the imagery of the garment covered in violence in verse 16, and closes with a debate over the ESV's departure from the traditional "I hate divorce" rendering — the group lands in agreement that the third-person reading ("the man who hates and divorces") is both textually defensible and theologically clarifying. GIVE TO THEOPOLIS! theopolisinstitute.com/give/ Get the Theopolis App! app.theopolisinstitute.com/menu Use Code "theopolitan" to get your first month free! Sign up for In Medias Res mailchi.mp/0b01d726f2fe/inmediasres

Episode 871: The Measurer (Revelation 10:11-11:2), with James Jordan Apr 17, 2026

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Episode 870: Treachery and the Tents of Jacob (Malachi 2:1-16) Apr 15, 2026

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Peter Leithart, Alastair Roberts, Jeff Meyers, and James Bejon continue their series on Malachi, opening with a reflection on Malachi 2's portrait of the ideal Levitical priest — one whose lips carry true Torah, whose mouth pronounces righteous judgment, and who walks as a messenger of the Lord of hosts — drawing out implications for pastoral ministry in the new covenant. The conversation then turns to Malachi 2:10–16, tracing the repeated theme of treachery that binds the section together, with careful attention to the interconnection between Israel's betrayal of one another, their unfaithfulness to Yahweh, and the intermarriage controversies addressed by Ezra and Nehemiah. The panel explores the layered resonances of "abomination" in verse 11 — its evocation of Canaanite defilement, Solomonic apostasy, and the husband-bride typology of Yahweh and his sanctuary — while probing the puzzling idiom of verse 12 and leaving its mystery suggestively unresolved. GIVE TO THEOPOLIS! theopolisinstitute.com/give/ Get the Theopolis App! app.theopolisinstitute.com/menu Use Code "theopolitan" to get your first month free! Sign up for In Medias Res mailchi.mp/0b01d726f2fe/inmediasres

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