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- Welcome to the rapid daily edition where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity The book of Malachi, this is the last of the
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- Old Testament books Malachi was about 450 BC so he is the last prophet after a period of silence
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- And then we would see John the Baptist so this makes sense that this book is one of talking about hope
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- This is again at the time where Israel has entered into the land again.
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- They've rebuilt the temple They've reinstituted the sacrifices Everything seems to be going well kind of well in a sense as far as that's concerned
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- But what Malachi focuses on is the covenant blessings? To Israel in other words
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- He reinforces the the faithfulness and disobedience to those covenants that were given back
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- Generations ago in the Abrahamic Covenant. And so what you see is he talks about obedience.
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- He talks about disobedience and the results of them Malachi uses a form of rhetoric
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- To do basically a question and answer type of method we would call it the Socratic model
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- He is teaching through that Malachi points to God's past his present his future everything he does in his dealings with Israel in order to renew the perspective for them to reestablish their hope their motivation for the covenant faithfulness that they would have because this will be the last
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- Prophet until the Messiah comes on to the scene This podcast is part of the striving for eternity ministry for more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church
