However, even these anointed Christians, or “sons of Levi, ” needed to undergo cleansing. It was as the prophet Malachi had foretold: “He [Jehovah] must sit as a refiner and cleanser of silver and must cleanse the sons of Levi; and he must clarify them like gold and like silver, and they will certainly become to Jehovah people presenting a gift offering in righteousness. ”
३: ३) या आध्यात्मिक इस्राएलाचे शुद्धीकरण करण्यासाठी यहोवाने ‘ करार घेऊन येणाऱ्‍या निरोप्याचा ’ अर्थात ख्रिस्त येशूचा उपयोग केला.