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Merrill Unger

Wiersbe

McGee

Need to deal with Cross references in NT

1.      Introduction

Prophetic Intro (v1) – Malachi has a burden

God loves Israel (v2)

God hated Esau (vv3a)

God judges Esau’s land – Edom (vv3b-4)

Benediction of God being exalted outside even Israel (v5)

NOTE: Gentile focus begins here

Rebuke of Priests:

faulty sacrifices (1:6-14)

General Indictment (1:6-7)

QUESTION: What is meant “the table of the Lord is dispised”, see vv12-13)

Specific Indictment - Priests offer bad sacrifices (1:8)

CROSS REF: Lev 22:22, Deu 15:21

The Lord’s Pleading

A call for prayer to God (1:9)

The wish of the Lord - Stop (1:10-11)

General statement (1:10)

Explanation: He doesn’t neeed them, all will one day offer to God. (1:11, c.f. v14)

Further Indictment - They hate the table

They profane the table with their words

They view it as Defiled at its best (v12a)

Despised (v12b)

Tiresome (v13a)

Disdain it (v13b)

They defile it with stolen goods (v13c) and not the best (v13d)

The one who violates this is cursed

The LORD is great, and demands His fear among all. (v14)

The Appeal to Repent (2:1-9)

Introductory Appeal (2:1, ,back to a previous command)

Warning of Judgment (2:2-4)

A coming curse (v2)

Specific curse v3)

The intended repentance (v4)?

The covenant with the priests (v5-6)

back to Deu and esp. think of Phineas

The priest’s duties further described (v7)

Final indictment and judgment (vv8-9)

Rebuke of Congregation: Behavior and Divorce (2:10-17)

Introductory Indictment (2:10-13)

Intro (2:10

Profaned holiness with foreign wives (2:11-12)?

Ignorance of their weeping (2:13)

Second Indictment - Divorce (2:14-17)

Breaking of Marriage (2:14)

God’s purpose and design for Marriage (2:15)

God’s feelings toward divorce (2:16)

Third Indictment - Falsehood about God (2:17)

The eschatological future - The Coming Lord in Judgment (3:1-7)

Rebuke of Congregation: Lack of giving and rotten heart (3:8-15)

God’s dealing with the faithful remnant (3:16-4:3)

Final exhortation: Keep the Covenant in view of the future (4:4-6)