Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Revelation+001   REVELATION   INTRODUCTION The ancient Roman Empire defended its economic and political control in spiritual terms, calling its gospel the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace. While in exile on the island of Patmos, a Jewish Christian prophet named John received a vision showing that the cult of emperor worship […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+004   Malachi 4 (ESV) The Great Day of the Lord 1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+003   Malachi 3 (ESV) 8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+002   Malachi 2 (ESV) Judah Profaned the Covenant 10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Malachi+001   MALACHI INTRODUCTION The rebuilding of the temple under Zerubbabel and Joshua, inspired by the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah, was completed in 516 BC. The new temple was meant to be the centerpiece of a community in which there was true justice and genuine worship. In this way Israel […]