You have only the rote meaning you've been told by Mormonism training to attach to that Scripture. Smith was ignorant to the meaning and focus of that passage and now Mormon Apologists spout the same wrong-headed interpretation to the verse, even supposing it is preceded by a passage prophetic about Smith (Malachi 3:1 Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts. One of your cult has tried to assert that the messenger is Joe Smith, the seer stone treasure conman). But you have so little understanding of the Coming of The Lord To His Temple, you build non-Jewish temples to restore Jewish temple ordinances after Jesus finished the covenant, so Mormonism is substituting Masonic rituals Smith learned only a short time before he suddenly had a revelation to establish/restore the temple worship in buldings again when God's Holy Spirit now comes to the tent tabernacles of the believer. You fail to realize the passages in Malachi are for Jews first, then gentiles. You can verify that by learning to differentiate the groups written of in Heaven in the Book of Revelations.
Mormonism cultists try to twist any scripture they can to fit the imaginings Mormonism's cultist leader established. But scholarship over the centuries is not canceled out by such poorly educated efforts. The admonition to study to show yourself approved nails Mormonism under educated apologists as unapprovable. WHEN the purified Levites offer an offering in righteousness, Whose Righteousness will be the focus and what will the offering be to be so righteous? It certainly will not be any animals and Jesus has already made the LAST SACRIFICE!
That’s twice you have accused me of trying to say that this messenger is Joseph Smith, get real.
The Malachi reference is a prophecy of the last days, and the Sons of Levi will offer up an offering to the Lord in Rightuousness, which you seem to think is heretical, considering Christ is the last and final sacrifice. The entire book of Malachi (all 4 chapters) is a prophecy of the last days. I hope neither of us end up burned as stubble as in Chapter 4, my FRiend. ;-)