![]() They have asked for the God of justice now he will come and do his work of justice among them (3:1). Malachi replies that if justice is what the Jews want, then justice is what they will have but they must realize that such justice will apply to them as well as to their heathen neighbours. Other nations made no effort to keep God’s law, whereas Israel was his people (17). When the Jews saw surrounding nations prosper while they suffered hardship, they complained that God was not just. Here is an allusion to records kept by kings, Esther 6:1, of such as had performed signal services, and who should be the first to be rewarded. What a source for thinking and contemplation! See how God treats such persons: The Lord hearkened to their conversation, heard the meditations of their hearts and so approved of the whole that a book of remembrance was written before the Lord-all their names were carefully registered in heaven. The name of God is God himself in the plenitude of his power, omniscience, justice, goodness, mercy, and truth. His name was sacred to them it was a fruitful source of profound and edifying meditation. By mutual exhortation they strengthened each other's hands in the Lord.ģ. ![]() ![]() They had that reverence for Jehovah that caused them to depart from evil, and to keep his ordinances.Ģ. There are three characteristics given of this people, viz.: -ġ. They that feared the Lord - There were a few godly in the land, who, hearing the language and seeing the profligacy of the rebels above, concluded that some signal mark of God's vengeance must fall upon them they, therefore, as the corruption increased, cleaved the closer to their Maker.
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