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It was a depressing time. Priests and people, both of whom who had been enormously blessed by God, were shuffling through their religion, muttering all the while about how burdensome it was. Questioning God’s love, dishonoring his name, sighing over his service, breaking his laws and doubting his promises—these were the orders of the day. A wake-up call was needed, and God provided it through...

evidence to the contrary, we should assume that there was actually a prophet named ‘Malachi’, who was indeed God’s messenger to the nation. Having tightly packaged this basic information into a few words, Malachi plunges into his message. We have noted that dialogue is the vehicle he uses to convey God’s message to the people of Israel, and we have noted that each dialogue consists of the Lord making an assertion, the people objecting to that assertion and the Lord defending it. Malachi wasted no
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