THE BOOK
THE BOOK OF _____________ IS THE LAST THE WRITTEN WORD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BEFORE WE GET TO THE LETTERS AND GOSPELS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
MALACHI
WHO IS MALACHI?
PROPHET OF GOD
THE BOOK OF MALACHI WA WRITTEN AROUND ______________ YEARS AFTER THE JEWS RETURNED TO JERUSALEM FROM EXILE.
100
MALACHI _______________ ON INTERMARRIAGE WITH FOREIGN WOMEN.
TEACHES
EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD THE PRIESTS AND WORSHIP ESTABLISHED IN THE TEMPLE, THE ___________ BECAME CORRUPT AND SELFISH IN A PROPHETIC CYLE.
JEWS
THE FIRST CONVERSATION BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE IS INITIATED BY __________________
GOD.
GOD POINTS OUT HOW THE PEOPLE ARE ABUSING THE NEW ___________________
TEMPLE
MEN ARE ALSO DIVORCING THEIR JEWISH WIVES, AND GOD SEES THIS AS A SIGN OF BREAKING ___________________-, BOT WITH HIM AND ONE ANOTHER.
COVENANTS
THE TITHE WAS MEANT TO ________________- THE TEMPLE AND THE PRIESTS.
SUPPORT
PEOPLE WHO BELONGS TO GOD, THEY WILL BE SPARED FROM GOD'S _________________
JUDGEMENT.
THEY WILL HAVE __________________- AT SEEING GOD SETTING EVERYTHING RIGHT.
JOY
THERE IS _______________ YEARS OF SILENCE BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT.
BONUS: WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK AND WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOK. (DOUBLE THE POINTS)
MALACHI
LAST BOOK OT (MALACHI)
FIRST BOOK NT (MATTHEW)
THE FIRST VERSE OF MALACHI IS THE ONLY TIME THE PROPHET'S NAME IS MENTIONED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT ___________________________.
NOTHING DEFINITIVE IS KNOWN ABOUT HIM.
MALACHI DEALS WITH __________________ IN THE TEMPLE.
SACRIFICES
MALACHI IS A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BOOK USING A __________________________ AND ANSWER METHOD TO BRING GOD'S MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE.
QUESTION
_____________- DEALS WITH SIX DIFFERENT THEMES AND ISSUES WHERE HE AND THE JEWS ARE IN CONFLICT IN A PROPHETIC CYCLE.
GOD
HE TELLS THEM HE ________________-THEM DESPITE THEIR FAILURES.
LOVES
THE _______________ AND ANIMALS THEY BROUGHT WERE DISABLED AND BLIND.
LAMBS
THE JEWS SAY THAT SINCE GOD ALLOWS INJUCTICE, THEN HE IS ____________________ .
UNJUST
GOD SAID, IF YOU DO PAY YOUR TITHES, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO CONTAIN THE _________________- HE POURS OUT TO YOU.
BLESSINGS
GOD WILL MAKE THEM JEWELS, ____________OF GREAT VALUE.
PEOPLE
REMEMBER THE __________________--- READ THE ________________________.
LAW
SCRIPTURE
MALACHI SUMS UP THE THEMES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, BRINGS _______________ AND _______________.
CORRECTION AND CHALLENGE
THE BOOK OF MALACHI IS PLACED AMONG THE _______________ PROPHETS, BUT THESE ARE ONLY DESIGNATED AS "MINOR" BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THE BOOK.
MINOR
THE ________________ TEMPLE HAD BEEN BUILT AND WAS IN USE.
SECOND (2ND)
__________ AND JERUSALEM HAD BEEN ULTIMATELY CONQUERED BY BABYLON, THEN BABYLON BY PERSIA, ALL AS A RESULT OF THEIR.
JUDAH
GOD EXPOSES AND CONFRONTS THEIR ________________
CORRUPTION
THEY QUESTION HIS _________________-
LOVE
GOD TELLS THEM TO GIVE THOSE TRASH, BLEMISHED ______________ TO THE PERSIAN GOVERNOR.
OFFERINGS
A MESSENGER (WILL DO WHAT THE _____________ PRIESTS SHOULDHAVE DONE.
CORRUPT
THE ________________-- DECLARE THAT THERE IS NO VALUE IN SERVING GOD. (MALACHI 3:13-3:18)
JEWS
A TERRIBLE DAY OF JUDGMENT IS _______________
COMING.
A NEW ELIJAH AND MOSES WILL COME AND RESTORE WHAT WAS __________________
LOST.
THE BOOK OF MALACHI IS THE END OF THE _____________ TESTAMENT.
OLD
THE _____________ TESTAMENT IS ORGANIZED BASED ON GENRE AND THEN PROPHETS BY LENGTH, NOT NECESSARILY CHRONOLOGICALLY.
OLD
MALACHI HAD TO DEAL WITH ________________ PRIESTS.
THEIR ________________ AND DISMISSAL OF PROPHETS LIKE ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH LEAD TO THEIR CONQUERED BY BABYLON.
SIN
GOD GETS THE LAST __________________
WORD
HE REMINDS THEM THAT HE CHOSE __________ IN THEIR HISTORY.
JACOB
GOD CALLS HIS _________________ TRAITORS AGAINST HIM.
PEOPLE
GOD CALLS THE PEOPLE ______________________ TO HIM.
BACK
GOD WILL WRITE THEIR _________________ DOWN IN A SCROLL OF REMEMBERANCE.
NAMES
THE JUDGMENT WILL NOT BE TERRIBLE FOR THE _________________________
FAITHFUL
AS A _____________________-- THAT THE NEW ELIJAH AND MOSES WILL RECONCILE THE PEOPLE TO GOD THE FATHER.
SIGN
GOD GIVES THE PEOPLE ______________ FOR RECONCILLATION, RESTORATION, AND A FUTURE.
HOPE
THE ____________ PROPHETS ARE SIMPLY LONGER BOOKS.
MAJOR
MALACHI HAD TO DEAL WITH NEGLECT OF _____________ AND ___________________.
TITHES AND OFFERINGS.
THE JEWS WEE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO JERUSALEM TO REBUILD THE ______________ AND THE ________________, DETAILED IN NEHEMIAH AND EZRA.
WALLS AND TEMPLE
HE CALLS THEM TO REMEMBER HIS ________________ AND _________________ TO HIM, ALSO THAT THEY CAN ENDURE THE REFINING FIRE THAT IS YET TO COME.
LOVE
RETURN
THEY ARE A PEOPLE BECAUSE OF ___________
HIM (GOD)
GOD ANSWERS THAT WHEN THE MEN OF JUDAH MARRY FOREIGN WOMEN AND WORSHIP THIER IDOLS, THEY ARE __________________
TRAITORS
GOD SPECIFICALLY DEALS WITH THE _______________, THE 10 PERCENT OF INCOME AND HARVESTS REQUIRED IN THE LAW.
TITHE
PEOPLE WHO NAMES ARE IN A SCROLL OF REMEMBERANCE WILL BELONG TO ________________ AS SONS BELONG TO A FATHER.
GOD
THE FAITHFUL WILL ______________ BE AFRAID.
NOT
THEW JEWS WERE VERY AWARE OF THIS PROMISE. SINCE BEFORE ________________ THE PASSOVER SEDER NOW INCLUDES AN EMPTY SEAT AND AN EXTRA GLASS OF WINE, SIGNIFYING THE WAIT FOR ELIJAH'S RETURN
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