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.
Jesus' power over the forces of evil demonstrated that the kingdom of God had come.
From Old Testament times, the Jewish people knew that only God and his Messiah could open the eyes of the blind. However, over their...
Although not exactly a parable, the judgment scene that concluded Jesus’ public teaching in Matthew brings together important themes of his parables of the...
