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The Message of Malachi: ‘I Have Loved You,’ Says the Lord is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Malachi fittingly sits in Christian Bibles as the last book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes, and applies. Yet it also looks forward to the New Testament with its promises of the coming reign of God. A striking feature of the book of Malachi is the way in which every word of God is contradicted or questioned by His people. God’s persistence in speaking to them is a...

We come to the last section of Malachi. It includes the final words of God’s people who are refusing to receive God’s words (3:13–15); a reference to the words spoken by some of God’s people who did revere his words and God’s words about them (3:16–18); and the final words of God, both words of warning and words of comfort (4:1–6). You have spoken harsh words against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, ‘How have we spoken
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