Malachi: The Lord’s Messenger

The book of Malachi stands at the end of our Old Testament and it is a sobering book, with promises of blessing for the Israelites if they obeyed God’s Law, but with the threat of judgement if they did not. But what has this minor prophet to do with Christians today? What can we learn from it?

 

The author points out that at the time when Malachi was written, the godly within Israel were a vanishing minority which was ignored by the prevailing spirit of that day and by the majority of the people in that land. How similar that is to the situation in Britain today!

 

Is not today’s prevailing spirit very similar to what Malachi describes? And are not the Christian minority in Britain today ignored by the majority? As such there is much from Malachi that can encourage us and which we can apply to our situation today.