MALACHI

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MALACHI

• The Final Message

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Amos
516 BC
458 BC
444 BC
432 BC
Temple Completed
Return under Ezra in the 4th Year of Artaxerxes I
Return under Nehemiah
Nehemiah returns to Persia for a time
Haggai
Zechariah
Esther
Malachi?
Invasion of Greece
Peloponnesian Wars
Darius Hystaspes
Artaxerxes I
Xerxes
Darius II
KINGS OF PERSIA
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Outline of Malachi

• God's love for Israel and her unfaithful response
  (1-2)
• The Day of the Lord and the purging of Israel
  (3-4)

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Malachi 12-3

• "I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say,
  "How hast Thou loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's
  brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I have loved
  Jacob 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have made
  his mountains a desolation, and appointed his
  inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness."

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Malachi 216

• "For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of
  Israel, "and him who covers his garment with
  wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to
  your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously."
  

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Ezra 103

• "So now let us make a covenant with our God to
  put away all the wives and their children,
  according to the counsel of my lord and of those
  who tremble at the commandment of our God and
  let it be done according to the law."

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah
the son of Tikvah opposed this, with Meshullam
and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them. (Ezra
1015).
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Malachi 31

• "Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and
  he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord,
  whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple
  and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you
  delight, behold, He is coming," says the LORD of
  hosts

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Malachi 42

• But for you who fear My name the sun of
  righteousness will rise with healing in its
  wings and you will go forth and skip about like
  calves from the stall.

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In His Wings...

• 1 Samuel 244. David arose and cut off the edge
  of Saul's robe secretly
• Deuteronomy 2212. "You shall make yourself
  tassels on the four corners of your garment...
• Deuteronomy 2230. A man shall not take his
  father's wife so that he shall not uncover his
  father's skirt.
• Ruth 39. And she answered, I am Ruth your
  maid. So spread your covering over your maid, for
  you are a close relative.

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Malachi 42

• But for you who fear My name the sun of
  righteousness will rise with healing in its
  wings and you will go forth and skip about like
  calves from the stall.

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Malachi 43

• "And you will tread down the wicked, for they
  shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on
  the day which I am preparing," says the LORD of
  hosts.

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Malachi 45-6

• 5 "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the
  prophet before the coming of the great and
  terrible day of the LORD.
• 6 "And he will restore the hearts of the fathers
  to their children, and the hearts of the children
  to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land
  with a curse."

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