God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible,

tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

Can you believe we have now journeyed to the last stop in the Old Testament? We've come to the final Old Testament book, the Old Testament prophet Malachi.

One person not familiar with scripture said that Old Testament prophet Malachi.

Well I don't think Malachin was italian and

this was a man who was chosen by god at the end of the old testament era to give god's final

great message before the 400 silent years his name means jehovah's messenger the word messenger is

actually used three times in this book, and he was just that.

He was God's messenger.

He delivered the last great message of the Old Testament.

He was a contemporary of, or he lived soon after Nehemiah.

So if you read Malachi and Nehemiah alongside one another,

you're going to find they're dealing with the same sins and the same problems.

He prophesies about a hundred years after Haggai and Zachariah. So the temple is complete.

It's now standing. And just on the other side of Malachi's message, there'll be 400 years of silence.

400 years with no open revelation. So just as Nehemiah was the last historical writer,

Malachi is the last prophetical writer.

And what does he write about?

Well, he opens his book talking about how God has cared for them in the past.

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