Malachi.

MALACHI— The prophet who revealed God’s answers to people’s questions (Part 2)

(May 31, 2025) Dr Jim McClure continues this very relevant series…

As mentioned in Part 1 22 questions are to be found in Malachi (My Messenger) who wrote about Israel’s false accusations against God.

Here I share on seven of those questions— false accusations made that God did not love them and His response.

(1) Doubting God’s Love
Malachi came along at a time when the people were struggling to believe that God loved them (Malachi 1:2).

The first question was addressed to God by a cynical people, ‘How have you loved us?’ (v2). Over many centuries and in so many ways God had demonstrated His love for His people— despite their repeated ingratitude and disregard of Him and their failure to recognise the evidence of His loving provision and protection!

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THE GREATEST STORY: Chapter 2 – The Middle

(September 02, 2024) Dr Jim McClure shares more about The Greatest Story…

Following the prophet Malachi’s death there were no further prophetic revelations about Israel. For over 400 years the nation went into spiritual decline, and lost its independence first to the Greeks and then to the Romans. 

Throughout the centuries the prophets consistently challenged the moral and social corruption which the Bible describes as ‘darkness’ — but also revealed that God had not turned His back on humankind. While they had strongly denounced humanity’s rejection of God, they also affirmed that this had not resulted in God’s rejection of humankind!  They also revealed that the message of the Old Testament was not the whole story but just the beginning of a much bigger story.

They further indicated that a new chapter would begin when God Himself would personally get involved on planet earth — a chapter revealing God’s loving plan to reach out to a fallen, broken world by becoming personally involved!

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