Last words are very important.
Christ’s last words contained His legacy for us, His Body. In Malachi, we find the last words from God in the Old Testament. His last words are words of His Love! Our God is a God of love. He has shown His love since He came on a search-and-rescue mission to the Garden of Eden. As soon as Adam and Eve had fallen, God came to the rescue. He is the same today.
Our God of Love
One writer expressed the immensity of God’s love in a hymn titled “The Love of God.” Listen to the words F. M. Layton uses to describe God’s love. His explanation of this hymn points to how the words are written on a wall by some suffering patients in a hospital stuck in his mind. This is what came out of his meditation:
“Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made. Were ev’ry stalk on earth a quill, And ev’ry man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, Would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Tho’ stretched from sky to sky. The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure, the saints and angel’s song.”
The Last book of the Old Testament opens with God declaring His LOVE. Malachi is a book about Loving God and what He expects from His special people. In just a glance at the book, we can see there were many problems among those special people. The Lord points out and questions them about seven key areas of lacking in their lives.
Nehemiah’s Wall Builders Problems
A look at Malachi is to look at the problems of Nehemiah’s wall builders under a microscope. The same activities that caused the sharp correction of Nehemiah produced the prophet’s cry of Malachi. The book weaves its way around 7 key questions:
WHY ARE YOU DOUBTING GOD’S LOVE? Malachi 1:2
From OTI-39A – Malachi (970129WE)
From OTI-39A – Malachi (970129WE) – https://youtu.be/XG9L9K21rg4
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