Malachi Prophet biography

His name means "Bulletin of the Lord", and it is very suitable for the content of his prophecies. When he accurately lived, it is difficult to say, but, most likely, he was a contemporary of Ezra and Nehemiah - this is the second half of the 5th century BC. But here is what the Lord spoke: I loved Jacob, and Isava rejected. ” All the logic of these relations is based on the fact that the Lord specially loved the Israeli people.

He may wonder: what is this manifested in what is proved? And Malachia recalls the story from the book of Genesis, which talked about the twins Jacob and Isave. The Lord really chose Jacob, and therefore his descendants, although he was free in choice. Obviously, seeing the fate of the Edomites about which the Israelites prophesied and Avdia should very clearly see what the difference between them and the descendants of Isava was.

One people went through all the tests and survived, the second was steadily moving to their end. Today there is no person who would not hear about Israel, but who remembers about Ed? However, the fatherly love of God is not just a pleasant bonus, but also a high demand. If I am a father, then where is the honor? If your master is respect where? So the Lord of the army says to you, priests, that they despise my name.

Will I accept him favorably from you? And the malachia is extremely categorical in this: what is supposed to be given to God, then no longer belongs to man. And you rob me! You are cursed with a curse, you are robbing me - all the people! Bring all the tithing to the storage so that I have food in my house, and so experience me, says the Lord of the army.

Will I not open the windows of heaven for you, I will not be a blessing in excess? As a victim, not only corrupted animals are rejected, but also those that were taken away from other people. This is an eternal theme of prophetic disorders: it is impossible to build the right relationship with God if you are unfair to your neighbor, and Malachia gives this the simplest and most clear explanation: “Does all us have a father?

Did God create us alone? Why are we building intrigues to each other, breaking the paternal covenant? We are talking about situations where men threw their wives simply because they were tired of them. Fidelity to God inevitably implies marital fidelity, otherwise it will not work. The attitude to God as the Father, the exposure of divorces - all this will sound in the Gospel.

And it is no accident that at the end of the Malachi book the arrival of something new, unprecedented, which should turn over the ideas of people of that time ... or rather, not something, but someone: “Here, I am sending my messenger before me, he will prepare the way for me, and suddenly comes to his temple by the lord, which you are looking for, and the messenger of the covenant, which is so dear to you.” And a little further he continues: “Here, I am sending to you the prophet Elijah before the arrival of the Lord, great and terrible.

He will turn the hearts of fathers to children and the hearts of children - to the fathers, so that, having come, I do not hit the earth with a curse. ” The Prophet Elijah was, as the Jews believed, taken to heaven alive, which means that one day he could return alive to the earth. However, this has not yet happened. But when the sermon of John the Baptist sounded in the Jewish desert, he said “in the spirit and strength of Elijah,” as stated in the Gospel.

This was not a physical coming from the sky of an ancient prophet, not his reincarnation, but the revival of the same prophetic tradition to which Elijah, Malachia, and John belonged.