PPT-Malachi 4:1-6

1 Surely the day is coming it will burn like a furnace All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble and that day that is coming will set them on fire says the Lord Almighty Not a root or a branch will be left to them . Malachi = “my messenger”. Oracle = “a burden”. “to” NOT “against” His people. The Book of Malachi . Final prophet of OT. Date: 432-420 B.C.. 100+ years after 1. st. Part . 2. (Malachi 3:1–6). . “Why then are we . faithless. to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?” . (. Malachi 2:10. ). . “. Judah has been . faithless. …” . . (. Malachi 3:10. Malachi 3:10 . Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the . Lord. Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.. I. . THE MINOR PROPHETS. Jonah. , . Amos. , . Hosea. – N. orthern. Kingdom (Israel. ) before Assyria. Joel. , . Micah. , . Zephaniah. , . Nahum. , . Habakkuk. , . Obadiah. – Southern Kingdom before Babylon. Memory Verse: Malachi 3:10 . “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for”.. ). I. INTRODUCTION . TO THE SERIES. II. . GOD’S LOVE FOR JACOB (1:1-5). III. . GOD’S FIRST CHARGE OF SIN . (. 1:6-2:9. ). I. . INTRO. . Malachi . now addresses the issue of worship as seen in the offering of their sacrifices at the altar. Malachi 2:17-4:6. MALACHI . 2:17-4:6. The Question: Where is God’s Justice (2:17; 3:13-15)?. The Charge: You Are Hypocrites (3:5-12)!. MALACHI 2:17-4:6. Excuses for sin: . Everybody does it!. Nobody will know! . How does the Lord say, “I love you”?. The book of Malachi is a book of chastening. . Elder . D. Todd . Christofferson. made this statement about the Lord’s . chastening: “Correction . is vital if we would conform our . 6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty.“ But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.“ But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty. 12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.. Captivity, Return, and Years of Silence. Lesson . 16: The Prophet Malachi (Pg. 110-114). 612 B.C.. 606 B.C.. 586 B.C.. 539 B.C.. 536 B.C.. 520 B.C.. 516 B.C.. 483 B.C.. 458 B.C.. 445 B.C.. 430 . B.C.. And 7 Month Old Son. Dutch New Guinea, 1962. The SAWI. MAURO. HAENAM. Malachi 2:10-17. Dealing Treacherously . With . The . Holy . [. i.e. The Marriage Institution. ]. The Marriage . Institution. In The Bible. The Lord's Love for Israel. 2. “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob . 3. but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his. ’ . simply means “My [that is, God’s] . messenger;”. Last Prophet;. Last book in the Old . Testament;. Key Message – “Return . to me, and I will return to . you” . says the . Lord. . Almight. Malachi 3:3. 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness..