Today: [Malachi 1] When God Quit the Church: In the book of Malachi the scene opens upon a time of downturn and difficulty for the people of God. Their history is marching them into the 400 silent years between the Old and New Testaments. The restoration temple is a polluted place, worship of God is very marginal, and now a prophet, the final Old Testament prophet speaks up with a last gasp message of clarity to a people whose ears were deafened by their own miserable existence, unwilling to be challenged in any way. Is there any relevance in the message of Malachi to the day we live in?
