MALACHI Introduction

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MALACHIIntroduction 11-5

• North York (Chinese) Baptist Church
• ESC Sunday School
• October 2, 2011
• Pastor Lu-Lu Ling

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Malachi Historical Background
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YEAR (B.C.) EVENT
722 Israel fell to Assyria
605 1st deportation
597 2nd deportation
586 Jerusalem fell, 3rd deportation
583 4th deportation
539 Cyrus Persian Empire
538-537 1st return (Ezra 11-3)
???? 2nd return (Ezra 2, 3)
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YEAR (B.C.) EVENT
536-530 Opposition (Ezra 41-5)
530 Building stopped (Ezra 424)
520 Building restarted (Ezra 52, 614 Hag 114)
516 Temple completed (Ezra 615)
458 3rd return build faith (Ezra 7)
445 4th return build wall (Neh)
500-430 Malachi holy living

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Gods Building Projects Gods Building Projects
Temple Zerubbabel, Joshua, Haggai, Zechariah 536-516 B.C.
People Ezra taught the Law (710) 457 B.C.
Wall/ People Nehemiah 444 B.C., 432 B.C., ???
People Malachi Holy Living 500 430 B.C.
Malachi Title or Name?
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Common Themes in Malachi, Ezra. Nehemiah
Subject Malachi Ezra Nehemiah
Foreign wives 210-16 9-10 1323-27
Social Justice 217-36 51-13
Tithing 37-12 131-14
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Malachi Structure 6 questions that God said
the people were asking/ thinking
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Six Questions Conclusion 7 Questions Conclusion
Introduction 11 Introduction 11
1 How have you loved us? 12-5 How have you loved us? 12-5
2 How have we despised your name? 16-29 How have we despised your name? 16-29
3 For what reason? 210-16 For what reason? 210-16
4 How they have wearied the Lord? 217-36 How have we wearied the Lord? 217-36
5 Now should we return? 37-12 How should we return? 37
6 How have we spoken against the Lord? 313-15 How have we robbed the Lord? 38-12
7 How have we spoken against the Lord? 313-15
Conclusion 41-6 The Day of the Lord 41-3 The Promise 44-6 Conclusion 41-6 The Day of the Lord 41-3 The Promise 44-6
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Malachi Chiastic Structure A Superscription
(11) B First Disputation (12-5) C Second
Disputation (1629) D Third Disputation
(210-16) D' Fourth Disputation
(21736) C' Fifth Disputation (37-12)
B' Sixth Disputation (31343 A' Summary
challenge (44-6)
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Malachi Chiastic Structure A Superscription
(11) Yahweh has a message for Israel. B First
Disputation (12-5) God distinguishes between
the good and the wicked. The proof of His love
is His sparing the righteous and condemning the
wicked. C Second Disputation (1629)
Condemnation of improper, begrudging offerings,
promise of reversal of blessing, and
the greatness of Yahweh's name among the
nations. D Third Disputation (210-16) The
Lord is witness to marital fidelity, and Judah
is unfaithful. D' Fourth Disputation
(21736) The Lord is witness to marital
fidelity, and Judah is unfaithful. C' Fifth
Disputation (37-12) Condemnation of improper,
begrudging offerings, promise of reversal of
blessing, and the greatness of Yahweh's name
among the nations. B' Sixth Disputation
(31343) God distinguishes between the good
and the wicked. The proof of His love is His
sparing the righteous and condemning the
wicked. A' Summary challenge (44-6) Yahweh has
a message for Israel.
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Malachi 12-5 1An oracle The word of the LORD
to Israel through Malachi . 2 I have loved you,
says the LORD. But you ask, How have you loved
us? Was not Esau Jacobs brother? declares the
LORD. Yet I have loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I have
hated, and I have turned his hill country into a
wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert
jackals. 4 Edom may say, Though we have been
crushed, we will rebuild the ruins. But this is
what the LORD Almighty says They may build, but
I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked
Land, a people always under the wrath of the
LORD. 5 You will see it with your own eyes and
say, Great is the LORDeven beyond the borders
of Israel!
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Structure of Malachi 11-5 11 An oracle The
word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi A.
Blessings for Jacob v. 2 B. Judgment for Esau
v. 3 C. Edoms lack of Repentance v. 4a B.
Judgment for Esau v.4b A. Blessings for Jacob
v. 5
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Esau and Edom
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How has God loved Israel? What is common
between Esau and Jacob? What is the difference
between Esau/Edom and Israel? Was God fair to
Esau? (Paul used this passage in Romans 913)