As an oracle of God’s word, Malachi’s short four-chapter book — divinely and strategically placed — chronicles the circumstances necessitating the long-awaited Messiah about which well-known Pastor Chuck Swindoll said:
“Malachi teaches us that they [Israelites] still strayed from the Lord’s path. They needed God’s intervention as much as ever, so this book, as a final statement of judgment in the Old Testament, anticipates God’s saving work through the Messiah, Jesus Christ.”
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