The Book of
MALACHI
Ch 2:10 - 3:7
Malachi
1:1 Introduction
1:2-2:16 The Broken
Covenant
1:2-5 How Has God loved Us?
1:6-2:9 How have we failed
as Priests?
2:10-16 How Have We Failed as
God‟s People?
Malachi
2:17-4:6 God‟s Restoration
of the Covenant
2:17-3:6 Is God Just?
3:7-12 What Does
Repentance Mean?
3:13-4:6 What‟s the Point of
Serving God?
Why is faith not working?
(Ch 2:10-3:12)
You flood the Lord's altar with
tears. You weep and wail because
he no longer looks with favor on
your offerings or accepts them
with pleasure from your hands.
You ask, “Why?” (Malachi
2:13/14)
Why is faith not working?
Men are being unfaithful
husbands
(v10-16)
Malachi 2:10-12
10 Do we not all have one Father? Did not
one God create us? Why do we profane
the covenant of our ancestors by being
unfaithful to one another? 11 Judah has
been unfaithful. A detestable thing has
been committed in Israel and in
Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the
sanctuary the LORD loves by marrying
women who worship a foreign god. 12 As
for the man who does this, whoever he
may be, may the LORD remove him from
the tents of Jacob—even though he
Malachi 2:13
You flood the Lord's altar with
tears. You weep and wail
because he no longer looks
with favor on your offerings or
accepts them with pleasure
from your hands.
Malachi 2:14-16
14 You ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD
is the witness between you and the wife of
your youth. You have been unfaithful to her,
though she is your partner, the wife of your
marriage covenant.
15 Has not the one God made you? You
belong to him in body and spirit. And what
does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So
be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to
the wife of your youth.
16”I hate divorce," says the LORD God of
Israel, “and I hate a man‟s covering himself
Gods view of marriage
(Malachi 2:14)
Witness to the vows
Takes the side of the rejected wife
Speaks highly of the wife
Speaks highly of marriage
Break one covenant and you violate the
other (v16)
Malachi 2:14-16
14 You ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD
is the witness between you and the wife of
your youth. You have been unfaithful to her,
though she is your partner, the wife of your
marriage covenant.
15 Has not the one God made you? You
belong to him in body and spirit. And what
does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So
be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to
the wife of your youth.
16”I hate divorce," says the LORD God of
Israel, “and I hate a man‟s covering himself
Malachi on Marriage
God hates divorce
I hate divorce
Jeremiah 3:8 I gave faithless
Israel her certificate of divorce
and sent her away because of
all her adulteries. Yet I saw that
her unfaithful sister Judah had
no fear; she also went out and
committed adultery.
Malachi on Marriage
God hates divorce - because he
loves divorcees and knows
what its like
God loves marriage
Malachi on Life
God hates pretence
True spirituality
Guard yourself in your spirit
Our responsibility to each other
„Blessed is he who is alone in
the strength of the fellowship
and blessed is he who keeps
the fellowship in the strength of
aloneness‟
Why is faith not working?
Men are being unfaithful
husbands
(v10-16)
People focussed on their own
perceived injustices whilst
involved in injustice
themselves
(v2:17- 3:5)
Malachi 2:17-3:1
17 You have wearied the LORD with your
words. “How have we wearied him?” you
ask.
By saying, “All who do evil are good in
the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased
with them” or “Where is the God of
justice?”
1 “I will send my messenger, who will
prepare the way before me. Then
suddenly the Lord you are seeking will
come to his temple; the messenger of the
covenant, whom you desire, will come,”
Malachi 3:2-4
But who can endure the day of his
coming? Who can stand when he
appears? For he will be like a
refiner‟s fire or a launderer‟s soap. 3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver; he will purify the Levites and
refine them like gold and silver. Then
the LORD will have men who will
bring offerings in righteousness, 4
and the offerings of Judah and
Malachi 3:5
5 “So I will come to put you on
trial. I will be quick to testify
against sorcerers, adulterers and
perjurers, against those who
defraud laborers of their wages,
who oppress the widows and the
fatherless, and deprive the
foreigners among you of justice,
but do not fear me,” says the
‘The Day of His coming’
Malachi 3
Preceded and prepared by a
messenger
The LORD will come suddenly
to the temple
He will purify and refine His
own
He is both judge and jury to evil
When is the day of his coming?
Has begun in Christ's first coming (the
refining)
Finally fulfilled in his second coming (the
judgement)
Christ's first coming purified a remnant of
covenant people (Romans 9:6-9)
His second coming will test with fire also
(1 Corinthians 3:11-15)
And once again right relationship with
Why is faith not working?
Men are being unfaithful
husbands
(v2:10-16)
People focussed on their own
perceived injustices whilst
involved in injustice themselves
(v2:17- 3:5)
Faith may not be working -
but it can!
6 “I the LORD do not change.
So you, the descendants of
Jacob, are not destroyed. 7
Ever since the time of your
ancestors you have turned
away from my decrees and
have not kept them. Return to
me, and I will return to you,”