MALACHI

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Updated 01/2024

CHAPTER 1

1. a. The people were not offering their best to God. They used blemished animals for the sacrifices and did not regard the Lord's table with respect. b. When we do not give our best through our God given talent, skill, and our effort in serving the Lord we are not offering our best.
2. God's name is to be highly regarded with much honor. With their blemished offerings and disrepect of the Lord’s table they were taking God’s name in vain.

CHAPTER 2

1. a. The priests were the messengers for God. b. The lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and people should seek the law from his mouth.
2. The priests had departed from the law and had caused people to fall into sin.
3. The people had intermarried with the pagan nations and fallen to their gods and also to the sin of mistreating and divorcing their wives.
4. The priests wearied God by their erroneous saying “the wicked are good in the sight of God amd where is God’s justice?”

CHAPTER 3

1. John the Baptist was the messenger (Matthew 11:10, Mark 1:2, and Luke 7:27).
2. Jesus, the Messiah, is the Lord or king or ruler whom the people waited on to save them from their enemies.
3. The priests corrupted the sacrifices by the blemished offerings and they held back for their own use many of the offerings.
4. Those who fear the Lord and meditate on His name were written down in a book of remembrance. They will become the treasure of the Lord.

CHAPTER 4

1. Through the gospels we learn that it was John the Baptist who came in the spirit of Elijah. (Matt. 11:14).
2. The great and dreadful day of the Lord is the time of judgment on the wicked at the time of the end. Before then, the spirit of Elijah will come through John the Baptist to prepare the people for salvation and the messenger of the new covenant, Jesus