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Introduction

This document records some of God’s messages that were given to the prophet Malaki (more accurately ‘Malʼākī’, although traditionally spelt as ‘Malachi’) to pass on to the Israeli people. It was written around 500 years before Yeshua/Jesus (B.C.) once the replacement temple was finished in Yerushalem (Jerusalem). The main purpose of the messages is to encourage the priests and the people to turn back to God and obey him from their hearts. It’s apparent that many of them were no longer obeying and worshipping God. The priests and the people were short-changing God by offering second-class animals for the sacrifices and none of them were following God’s desires. But God intervened in order to judge and restore his people, and he will send a teacher to precede him to prepare the path and to restore his agreement.

Main components of this account

The sins of the Israelis 1:1-2:16

God’s judgement and mercy 2:17-4:6

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Malachi

ORIGINAL BASE TEXT

Kent’s Student’s Old Testament

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This book contains the account of Malachi proclaiming that God loves his people, Israel, that he will punish them for their sins, and that later he will restore them. We call this book

Malachi

I have loved you indeed, says the Eternal; yet you ask, “How hast thou loved us?” “Thus,” the Eternal answers; “is not Esau the brother of Jacob, and yet I have loved Jacoband I have hated Esau, laying his mountain ranges waste and leaving his heritage to jackals of the desert.Edom may say, ‘We are crushed, but we will rebuild the ruins.’ The Lord of hosts declares: They may build, but I will break, till they are called ‘The Criminal Land,’ a folk with whom the Eternal is for ever furious.Your own eyes shall see that, and you shall cry, ‘All hail to the Eternal, far beyond the borders of Israel!’

I the Eternal never change, but you are the sons of Jacob the cheater still;ever since the days of your fathers, you have swerved from my laws and failed to keep them. Come back to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will come back to you. ‘How do we need to come back?’ you ask.Well, can a man cheat God? And yet you are cheating me. ‘How have we cheated thee?’ you ask. By your tithes and offerings.You lie under my curse for cheating me, the whole of your nation,If you would enjoy ample rations in my House, then pay all your tithes into the treasury, and see what I will do, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not then open the very sluices of heaven to pour a blessing down for you, a harvest more than enough;I will stop the locust from spoiling your crops, and your vines shall not miscarry (the Lord of hosts declares);all nations shall call you happy, the Lord of hosts declares, for you shall be a land of delight.

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