Malachi

Bible Reference: Malachi 1:1-4:6, Nehemiah 2:11-14, 13:10-29

Malachi served as a prophet during the reign of a Persian governor in Jerusalem.
It had been 100 years since the Jews returned to Jerusalem.
The second temple had been built but their excitement and zeal to follow God had diminished and been replaced by religious ritual.
Though the people were lax in their worship and stopped tithing, they did not understand why God was dissatisfied with them.
Malachi called the people out for moving away from an understanding of true worship and called them to repentance.
As a prophet, he wrote using a question and answer method with about twenty-three questions in the book.
Malachi was the last prophecy of the Old Testament and was followed by 400 years of silence until the coming of the Messiah.

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