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Malachi 4:1-6, The Great and Awesome Day of Yahweh
The Day of Yahweh is any day of God’s judgment when the wicked are destroyed and the righteous are exonerated and restored. There is going to be an ultimate Day of Yahweh, the final judgment of the wicked
Continue reading...Malachi 3:12-18, The Book of Remembrance
Does God need to keep books or lists in order to remember things of importance? Of course not. It is an action of His part that is for our benefit. We need such tools to help us remember, so God is depicted
Continue reading...Malachi 3:6-12, The Tithe
“Tithe” means a tenth. The Law required giving a tenth of one’s income to Yahweh (“A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to Yahweh”
Continue reading...Malachi 2:17-3:5, The Underlying Root of Unbelief
Most of us are familiar with the process of smelting silver or gold in order to remove the impurities. This is a common metaphor of judgment in Scripture. But another metaphor is cleansing by fuller’s
Continue reading...Malachi 2:10-16, Another Covenant Failure
There are three covenants in view in this section of Malachi. He has already mentioned the covenant that Yahweh made with Levi, constituting his tribe as the priestly tribe. Here in this passage, he mentions
Continue reading...Malachi 2:5-9, How Priests (Pastors) Should Minister
Though there is not a one-to-one correspondence between priests and pastors, there is a similarity of responsibility. As one commentator says, Whilst the prophets were extraordinary messengers of God,
Continue reading...Malachi 2:1-4, Judgment on the Priests
The functions of Israel’s priests were (1) ritual – the offering of sacrifices that brought Israelites back into relationship with God, (2) oracular – divine or perceive God’s will
Continue reading...Malachi 1:6-14, Polluted Sacrifices
God did not accept sacrifices that were imperfect: Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering
Continue reading...Malachi 1:2-5, Yahweh’s Major Contention
If God sent you a message saying, “I love you,” would you receive it? Or would you question it? 2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. “But you say, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau
Continue reading...Malachi 1:1, The Last Prophet of Israel
Though there were many books written after Malachi’s prophecy and before the New Testament (see the Apocrypha or deuterocanonical books), they did not rise to the level of true prophecy. Malachi is the
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