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In my bible the description of the book of Malachi is as follows:
Malachi, a prophet in the days of Nehemiah, directs his message of judgment to a people plagued by corrupt priests, wicked practices, and a false sense of security in their privleged relationship with God. Using the question - and - answer method, Malachi probes deeply into their problems of hypocrisy, infidelity, mixed marriages, divorce, false worship, and arrogance. So sinful has the nation become that God's words to the people no longer have any impact. For four hundred years after Malachi's ringing condemnations, God remains silent. Only with the coming of John the Baptist prophesied in Malachi 3: 1, does God again communicate with His people through a prophet's voice.
The meaning of the name, Mal'Aki ( My Messenger ) is probably shortened form of Mal'akya, "Messenger of Yahweh," and it is appropriate to the book which speaks of the coming of the "messenger of the covenant" ( "messenger" is mentioned three times in 2:7, 3:1 ) The Septuagint used the title Malachias even though it also translated it " by the hand of his messenger," The Latin title is Malachi.
Beginning in Malachi with the Privlege of a Nation.
It is written:
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
I have loved you, saith the LORD.
Yet ye say, Wherein have you loves us?
Was not Esau Jacob's brother? Saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob. And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places, thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build but I will throw down, and they shall call them, the border of wickedness, and "The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
- Malachi 1 - 5