Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the Word of the Lord to Malachai. we pick up in Malachai chapter 1 verse 1.

Now with today's message here's pastor chaff. Now let's turn to Malachai.

The final word of God in the Old Testament period,

God's final message before the coming of Jesus Christ.

Who Malachai was, where he came came from we know nothing.

Some believe that the name of Malachi is just an assumed name,

not the true name of the writer. But there is no real evidence to back up that

belief. But the name, Malik, I remember this morning I told you there were meanings in the names that they just didn't name a child, any name out of the dictionary.

But they looked for the meaning of a name and they name the child for the meaning of the name.

Malakai means my messenger. And so Malachi was God's messenger, the last messenger of the Old Testament

period. And he doesn't give any background concerning himself as some of the

other minor prophets do telling you where they came from and who their fathers were.

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