Malachi 4:5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.” When Jesus came many Israelites thought He was the promised Elijah but He was not. God did send an Elijah though, it was the one who proclaimed the coming of the Messiah, John the Baptist. […]

Malachi 3:8 “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.” I would like to think that Israel is doing this in ignorance but I’m afraid the evidence opposes that possibility. These questions and answers in Malachi are based on real events […]

Malachi 3:6 “For I do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.” God keeps His promises and that is a good thing for the children of Jacob because their behavior deserved a change. But, God keeps His word. Their sins were awful. So awful they deserved consummation. They called evil good […]

Malachi 2:10 “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?” Here is a basic truth not easily recognized by mankind. It explains conflicts, cruelty, and genocide in the history of mankind. All members of the human race […]

Malachi Malachi 1:2 “’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 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert,” Malachi is a […]

Zechariah 14:9 “And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.” Chapter fourteen is all about the coming day of the Lord. Many strange things will happen on that day according to the prophet. This is of course prophetic language and is […]

Zechariah 13:1 “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.” ‘On that day’ is the prophets’ notice of when God would send the Messiah and make things right for his people. We have been hearing from prophet […]

Zechariah 12:10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, […]

Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” Everyone who is familiar with the four gospels’ account of the life of Jesus […]

Zechariah 8:16, 17 “These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.” There was […]