UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 39 OF 39
Malachi
Malachi — “My messenger”
MINOR PROPHETS
- Author / Era
- Malachi · approx. 430 BC
- Setting
- Jerusalem, a century after the return. The reforms have faded. Cynicism has set in.
- Key Figures
- Malachi, the priests, the people, the messenger to come
- Watch For
- The book ends looking ahead to “the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” Then 400 years of silence. Then John the Baptist.
- Connects To
- Matthew 11:10–14 · Mark 1:2 · Luke 1:17
Key Verse
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple.”— Malachi 3:1
Points to Christ: The Sun of Righteousness
Rising “with healing in his wings” (Malachi 4:2) — the dawn of the New Testament before the silence even ends.
For the Fire Pit
The Old Testament ends with a promise and a question mark. Then four hundred years of silence. Then a baby cries in Bethlehem, and the silence breaks.
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