{"id":1991,"date":"2022-08-31T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T12:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:53:34","slug":"lesson-11-malachi-the-last-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/lesson-11-malachi-the-last-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 11: Malachi: The Last Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For thou <\/strong>art<\/strong><\/em> not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Psalm 5:4
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Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read\ntoday\u2019s key verse. We are to remember that God does not like sin, and sin cannot\nstand in God\u2019s presence. For that reason, God continually sent prophets to warn\nHis people when they disobeyed God\u2019s commands. In this lesson, will learn about\nthe last prophet God sent to His people in the Old Testament \u2013 the final\nwarning before a four hundred year silence of no new word from God to His\npeople.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis: <\/strong>Christians\nare not to practice a religion as the priests in Malachi\u2019s day were doing, but\nto live obeying God\u2019s Word. Although going to church is very important (as we\nhave learned), it is most important to live according to God\u2019s Word. We should\nalso have Christian friends to encourage us, and we should encourage them<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson Summary: <\/strong>In\nour last lesson, we learned the condition of God\u2019s people when Nehemiah\nreturned to Jerusalem. God\u2019s\npeople, including the priests, had fallen deeply into sin. Nehemiah once again\ncorrected the sin and prayed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God sent Malachi with a message for His\npeople, beginning with the priests who were just practicing a religion and not\nserving God according to His Word. The priests, and then the people, had fallen\ninto sin once again. As we will learn, Malachi dealt with many of the same sins\nthat Nehemiah dealt with in the lives of God\u2019s people. Malachi was the last\nvoice to God\u2019s people before about four hundred years of silence.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God had Malachi remind the Jews of the great\nlove God had for His people. The memory of Jacob and Esau was recalled \u2013 the\nlove of Jacob and the hatred for Esau. Jacob loved and sought after the things\nof God, and Esau hated and despised the people and things of God. Yet, God\u2019s\npeople were not living as His people \u2013 for they sinned and did not even\nrecognize how great their sin had become. God had a poignant question for them.\n\u201cA son honoureth his<\/em> father, and a servant his\nmaster: if then I be<\/em> a father, where is<\/em> mine honour? and if I be<\/em>\na master, where is<\/em> my fear? \u2026\u201d (Malachi 1:6). The people needed\nMalachi to show them how far from God they had fallen. Nevertheless, a few\npeople still feared God. God saw that they encouraged each other often. God\nknew them and wrote them in a special book of remembrance. Remember, God knows\nthe heart.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will not only learn of the condition of\nGod\u2019s people and the words of correction, but the promises of which God\nreminded His people \u2013 especially the promise of the Promised One, Jesus.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malachi was not only the last prophet call to God\u2019s people before the four hundred years of silence, but also that call ended with a promise of a curse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will learn a few details of the four hundred years of silence that came after Malachi, discovering some of the changes that took place among God\u2019s people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 11 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 11 Children’s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are teaching this to children, the following is a craft idea to reinforce this lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We made a “Book of Remembrance” to help us understand the importance of fearing the Lord and thinking upon Him.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key Verse For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. \u2014Psalm 5:4 Key Verse Thought: Read today\u2019s key verse. We are to remember that God does not like sin, and sin cannot stand in God\u2019s presence. For that reason, God continually sent prophets to warn His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[774,77,947,753],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-quarter-four","tag-lesson-11","tag-malachi","tag-quarter-four","tag-year-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}