Week 9: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 4 – The Final Word: Malachi 4:5,6 Malachi ends with yet another prophecy of the ministry of John the Baptist. There seems to be some controversy surrounding the prophecy, but Scripture is really pretty clear if you just take the time to look it over. Jesus clearly …
OT 9:3 Robbing God
Week 9: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – Robbing God (Malachi Cont’d): Malachi 3:7-17 Since Malachi only mentions the fatherless once, you might think that we should have been done with this yesterday, but we’re not. Why? Because the next section goes on to discuss something that directly affects them. This is why …
OT 9:2 Malachi and the Fatherless
Week 9: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – Malachi and the Fatherless: Malachi 3:1-6 Finally, we come to the climax of the book. The hook that keeps you waiting for the next installment: The promise of the Messiah and the one who will go before Him to prepare the way. “Behold, I will …
OT 9:1 (Malachi Cont’d) 1+1=1
Week 9: Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1: 1+1=1 (Malachi Cont’d) Solomon said that there is nothing new under the sun. He, of course, was right. One of today’s most frequently asked questions was also posed to Judah by Malachi: “Have we not all one father? hath not God created us? why do we …
OT 8:5 Dung on Your Face (Part 2) – Priests Gone Astray
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 5 – Dung on Your Face (Part 2) –Priests Gone Astray: Malachi 2:1-9 The message of Malachi chapter two was written to the priests. God had made a covenant with the Levites, but they had “departed out of the way” (2:8). This passage addresses very clearly …
OT 8:4 Dung on Your Face
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 4 – Malachi – Dung on Your Face: Malachi 2:1-3 This is a hard post for me to write, not because I don’t want to write it, but because I want to scream it from the housetops and know that I can’t. Imagine this scene, a …
OT 8:3 Malachi – Setting the Stage
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 3 – Malachi: Setting the Stage Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament. As stories go, this “final chapter” would be similar to that of a children’s book that I once read. The fair maiden is trapped in the castle tower, held prisoner by the …
OT 8:2 Mordecai’s Influence
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 2 – Esther Cont’d – Mordecai’s Influence: Esther 2:20; 4:1-17 Esther’s obedience continued even after she had been made queen. Chapter two, verse seventeen tells us that she was made queen in Vashti’s place. The king threw a feast, he gave out money and gifts, made …
OT 8:1 Stopping the Fatherless Pandemic
Week 8 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 1 – Esther Cont’d – Stopping the Fatherless Pandemic: Esther 2:10; Proverbs 22:6 Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.” That Mordecai took this to heart can be plainly …
OT 7:5 Mordecai’s Care
Week 7 – Lessons from the Prophets Cont’d Day 5 – Esther Cont’d – Mordecai’s Care: Esther 2:7,11 “And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his …
