Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now, we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Malachi.

I watched a movie not too long ago where the main characters, the characters who you're

rooting for, just keep making the same mistakes again and again, and so the majority of the

third act feels like this continuing cycle of, hey, we got free from our captors.

Oh, no, we made mistakes.

Now we're captured again, but we got free again.

And it happens so many times and it gets so laughable that eventually whoever made the

movie felt like they needed to hang a lantern that is signal to the audience.

They're like, yeah, we see it too.

And they actually had one of these characters say, I can't believe we got captured again.

And as an audience member, you're like, yeah, well, I'm right with you.

And that is a lot of making the same mistake over and over again.

And likewise, that's kind of how the Old Testament prophetic book Malachi feels.

It's the last book of the Old Testament.

I don't think Malachi is just dealing with the stuff that is happening historically in

the book of Malachi.

I think it's also meant to be a look back at the whole Old Testament.

It's meant to be an attempt to make sense of this story that we just saw and to think

through whether there's any reason to stay tuned for what's going to happen next.

We don't know anything about Malachi from anywhere else in the Bible.

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