Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

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 Malachi 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 Hagiai 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.

The first five verses of the book talk about the past. Then he transitions to the present.

Our God is always dealing with us in the present, isn't he?

And this particular section is a dialogue of God with his people. Here it's not the care of God

that's emphasized. It's the complaint of God. 11 times in the book, it says ye say, and 25 times,

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