How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwetz and Dr. J. Vernon McGee is our teacher on this five-year journey through God's entire word.

We got a great study ahead of us today as the Bible bus, what Dr. McGee affectionately called this five-year study, travels through the first nine verses of Malachi Chapter 2.

So if you'd like to know more about through the Bible, just visit us at

ttb.org anytime. Now before we get started in Malachi, let's listen to some more

introductory thoughts from Dr. McGee on the millennium. I've been talking a great deal on some

of the things that characterize the millennium, not just the fact that the desert's going to blossom

as a rose, and the lamb and the lion are going to lie down together. That's all quite wonderful.

But there are certain spiritual qualifications that seem to exist in the millennium, and we've

mentioned several of those.

And I want to mention now the last one today, and it's probably one of the greatest ones

of all, and yet I won't be able to say much about it because I don't

know much about it. And that is goodness. Goodness will characterize the millennium.

Now, we all know what it is, but we can't define it. I got the dictionary out, and it says the state or quality of being good.

Well, then when I looked up good, I didn't get much help there.

But the dictionary went on, and it said it means to be nutritious.

It means to be flavorful. Now, may I say to you that has to do with fruit.

We'll apply to oranges in California and peaches in Georgia and apples up in Washington, but

it's more than just that. Let me add this to it. It's a conformity to the moral standards of society, which were

in a former age, and those standards actually were based upon the word of God. And in those days,

I can remember when I was a boy, things hadn't got too bad then.

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