Charles Spurgeon Commentary Malachi 3:2

"But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner`s fire, and like fuller`s soap:" — Malachi 3:2 (ASV)

All that only looked like religion, but was not real and genuine, was purged away at his coming. He was like a refiner's fire, consuming the false pretensions of the Pharisees, and the vain boastings of the Scribes. There is, in the religion of Jesus Christ, a power that is a great purgative and a great refiner.