Read Malachi 3:1-5 in the ESV or your favorite study Bible and summarize in your own words what this passage means to you personally. Then ponder and answer the questions below.
Who is the messenger of the Covenant that will suddenly come to the temple and how is he described?
What will this messenger do when he comes?
Read Malachi 3:6-13 and list the words or phrases that speak to your heart as you read them along with the scripture references.
How have we, as the believers in the Lord, turned away from his statutes and have not kept them and are putting the Lord to the test? Both corporately as well as personally.
Read and fill in the blank for Malachi 3:16-18 from the ESV.
Then those who __________ the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and ________them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who ______________the LORD and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured ________________ I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who ___________God and the one who does not_________________ God.”
What are your thoughts about Malachi 3 as a whole chapter and does it apply to us today, if so why?
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