A revelation, the LORD’s 1 word to Israel by Malachi. 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
Yet you say, “How have you loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD, “Yet I loved Jacob; but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.” Jol 3:19Oba 1:10Ezk 35:3-4Jer 49:16-18Ezk 25:13-14Ezk 36:14-15Ezk 36:3-4Ezk 36:7 Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places,” the LORD of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever.” Ezk 25:14Ezk 35:9Ezk 11:10Isa 10:15-16Isa 11:14Isa 34:5Isa 63:1-6Isa 9:9-10
Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The LORD is great—even beyond the border of Israel!” Deu 11:7Luk 10:23-24Ezk 38:16Psa 35:26-27Psa 58:10-11Psa 83:17-181Sa 12:162Ch 29:8
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ Luk 6:46Isa 1:2Jhn 13:13-17Exo 20:121Pe 2:17-191Pe 1:17Hos 12:8Mal 3:13-14 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The LORD’s table is contemptible.’ Mal 1:121Co 10:211Co 11:27-32Mal 1:81Sa 2:15-17Deu 15:21Ezk 41:22Lev 2:11 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says the LORD of Armies. Deu 15:21Lev 22:19-25Hos 8:13Jer 14:10Mal 1:13-14Psa 20:3Job 42:8Mal 1:10
“Now, please entreat the favor of God, 2 that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says the LORD of Armies. 1Pe 1:17Jhn 9:31Exo 32:11Jer 27:182Ch 30:27Heb 7:26-27Jer 26:19Rom 2:11
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 1Pe 5:2Amo 5:21-24Hos 5:6Jer 6:20Mic 3:11Isa 1:11-15Jer 14:12Jer 8:10 For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations,” says the LORD of Armies. 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 LORD’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even 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 say also, ‘Behold, 3 what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says the LORD of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says the LORD. Mic 6:3Mrk 14:37-38Lev 22:19-23Mal 1:7-81Sa 2:29Amo 5:21-23Amo 8:5Ezk 4:14
“But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord 4 a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says the LORD of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.” Act 5:1-102Co 8:12Ecc 5:4-5Luk 12:46Mal 1:8Psa 76:12Jer 10:10Jos 7:11-12