The LORD’s Love for Israel
(Genesis 25:19–28; Romans 9:6–29)
This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi: 1 Hab 1:1Isa 13:1Hag 1:1Hag 2:1Nam 1:1Zec 12:1Zec 9:1
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. Jer 31:3Isa 41:8-9Deu 10:15Rom 9:10-13Deu 32:8-14Deu 4:37Deu 7:6-8Isa 43:4
But you ask, “How have You loved us?”
“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated, 2 and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals. 3” Jol 3:19Oba 1:10Ezk 35:3-4Jer 49:16-18Ezk 25:13-14Ezk 36:14-15Ezk 36:3-4Ezk 36:7
Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever. Ezk 25:14Ezk 35:9Ezk 11:10Isa 10:15-16Isa 11:14Isa 34:5Isa 63:1-6Isa 9:9-10 You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’” Deu 11:7Luk 10:23-24Ezk 38:16Psa 35:26-27Psa 58:10-11Psa 83:17-181Sa 12:162Ch 29:8
The Polluted Offerings
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. Luk 6:46Isa 1:2Jhn 13:13-17Exo 20:121Pe 2:17-191Pe 1:17Hos 12:8Mal 3:13-14
“But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
By presenting defiled food on My altar. Mal 1:121Co 10:211Co 11:27-32Mal 1:81Sa 2:15-17Deu 15:21Ezk 41:22Lev 2:11
But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You 4?’
By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts. Deu 15:21Lev 22:19-25Hos 8:13Jer 14:10Mal 1:13-14Psa 20:3Job 42:8Mal 1:10
“But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts. 1Pe 1:17Jhn 9:31Exo 32:11Jer 27:182Ch 30:27Heb 7:26-27Jer 26:19Rom 2:11
“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. 1Pe 5:2Amo 5:21-24Hos 5:6Jer 6:20Mic 3:11Isa 1:11-15Jer 14:12Jer 8:10
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts. Isa 45:6Isa 54:5Heb 13:15-16Isa 66:19-20Mat 28:19Zec 8:7Isa 24:14-16Psa 50:1 “But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’ Mal 1:6-82Sa 12:14Amo 2:7Dan 5:3-4Ezk 36:21-23Mal 1:13Mal 2:8Num 11:4-8
You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. Mic 6:3Mrk 14:37-38Lev 22:19-23Mal 1:7-81Sa 2:29Amo 5:21-23Amo 8:5Ezk 4:14
“You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.
“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations. Act 5:1-102Co 8:12Ecc 5:4-5Luk 12:46Mal 1:8Psa 76:12Jer 10:10Jos 7:11-12