Title (1:1) Introduction: God’s Faithful Covenant Love for Israel Affirmed (1:2–5) Israel’s Unfaithfulness Rebuked (1:6—2:16) The Unfaithfulness of the Priests (1:6—2:9) They dishonor God in their sacrifices (1:6–14) They do not faithfully teach the law (2:1–9) The Unfaithfulness of the People (2:10–16) The Lord’s Coming Announced (2:17—4:6) The Lord Will Come to Purify the
Malachi Introduction and God’s Election of Israel 1:1 What follows is divine revelation. The word of the LORD came to Israel through Malachi: 1:2 “I have shown love to you,” says the LORD, but you say, “How have you shown love to us?” “Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the LORD explains, “yet I chose Jacob 1:3 and rejected Esau. I
THE BOOK OF MALACHI Commentary by A. R. Faussett INTRODUCTION Malachi forms the transition link between the two dispensations, the Old and the New, "the skirt and boundary of Christianity" [Tertullian], to which perhaps is due the abrupt earnestness which characterizes his prophecies. His very name is somewhat uncertain. Malachi is the name of an office, rather