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Malachi: God’s Unchanging Love is unavailable, but you can change that!

When times are hard, it is difficult to believe that God loves us. All appearances seem to count against such a belief. Yet, that is exactly what this little Book of Malachi is all about. Yahweh still loves Israel in spite of all appearances to the contrary. And this same unchanging Lord still loves us. This, then, is the central affirmation and the key argument of the book: God has, and...

The theme of Malachi’s first message is the theme of the whole book, “I have loved you, says the Lord” (1:2). Like a banner over a Bible conference, this theme of the love of God must stand as the masthead over every page. His banner over us is love! God’s love goes beyond all attempts to explain its causes or all tests of its durability. Yet it also was the foundation on which each of his complaints against Israel was lodged. In view of all the mercies
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