The Message of Malachi: ‘I Have Loved You,’ Says the Lord (Biblia.com)

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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...

What revealing words these are! Those who were speaking harsh words against God envied those who put God to the test and got away with it. Whereas God’s invitation to ‘put me to the test’ in 3:10 is an invitation to repent and trust God for his promised blessings, this putting God to the test in 3:14 is seeing how much you can get away with in disobeying God. It is the behaviour of arrogant people. Of course, those who complain fail to see is that when God lets people get away with it, that is actually

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