While the people cynically questioned God’s justice and longed for his intervention, in Malachi 2:17-3:5, God told them he would be coming in judgment after his messenger prepared the way. In the New Testament, we learn who that messenger was and what God did when he showed up, which was a shock to all.
In the third dispute, found in Malachi 2:10-16, God accused his people of being faithless to his covenant with them by being faithless to...
Although we work for the growth of the kingdom, it grows mysteriously in ways that we cannot understand or control.
Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.