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’ sayings reveal the meaning of his death on the cross, and some who witnessed it got the message.
In the final of the seven letters in Revelation 3:14-22, Jesus addressed the church in Laodicea, which had no redeeming qualities. He described the...
The rejection of Jesus by many Israelites is God‘s plan for the salvation of the nations, and even of Israel itself.