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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 1 — Malachi 1:1-2:9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 1 — Malachi 1:1-2:9. Show all posts

19 September, 2017

Search The Scriptures —Study 1 — Malachi 1:1-2:9

Study 1  From the Book of Malachi is: Malachi 1:1-2:9


1.     1:1-5. The people of Judah, lolling upon their condition and circumstances, were depressed and murmuring against God. What proof did the prophet adduce to show that God did love them as a nation? Cf. Pss. 34:15, 16; 73:26-28.
2.     Of what particular sins were the priest guilty? With what will God punish them if the remain impenitent? What was the root of their failure?
3.     What, by contrast, do we learn should be the quality and objectives of our service as messengers of the Lord of host? Cf. 2:5-7, and cf. 2 Cor.6:3; 2 Tim. 2:15; 1 Pet. 4:10, 11.
Notes
1.     1:2-4. The Edomites were the descendants of Esau.
2.     1:5. ‘ Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel’: the people had too small a conception of their God and this the prophet seeks to correct. Cf. verses 11, 14b
3.     1:8. Perfect, unblemished sacrifices were demanded (Lv. 1:3), and not the ‘rejects’ from the flock.