Malachi

No. 671 Malachi 3:6-12
Malachi is the last of the prophets, speaking to a people back in the land but gone cold in their worship. God's word to them here begins with his own constancy. I the LORD do not change, he says, and that is...
No. 979 Malachi 2:1-12
Malachi turns to the priests with a hard word. If you will not take it to heart to honor my name, God says, I will curse your blessings, because you have already stopped taking it to heart. He recalls what the...
No. 1360 Malachi 1:6-14
Through Malachi, God brings a charge against the priests. A son honors his father and a servant his master; if I am your father and master, where is my honor? You despise my name, he says, and when they ask...
No. 1585 Malachi 1:1-5
Malachi opens with a declaration of love and a doubting response. I have loved you, says the LORD. And the people answer, how have you loved us? God points them back to their origin: was not Esau Jacob's...
No. 2394 Malachi 3:13-18
Malachi quotes the jaded talk of his day. It is vain to serve God, people are saying; what do we gain by keeping his commands and walking in mourning before him? The proud prosper, the wicked get away with it,...
No. 3385 Malachi 2:13-17
God tells the people why their worship is rejected. They weep and sigh at the altar, but he will not accept their offerings, because they have been faithless to the wife of their youth, the companion and wife...
No. 3604 Malachi 4:1-6
Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, ends with a day of reckoning: a day burning like a furnace for the arrogant and the evildoers, who will be stubble. But for those who fear God's name, the sun of...
No. 3675 Malachi 3:1-5
Malachi promises a messenger to prepare the way, and then the Lord himself, the messenger of the covenant, coming suddenly to his temple. But the coming is not only joyful: who can endure the day of his...