Book of Malachi: The Last Word

This is a Bible study on the Book of Malachi. Malachi spoke to the exiles some 100 years after their initial return, after the days of Zechariah and Haggai. Malachi ministered either at the time of Nehemiah or immediately after his book closes. Malachi means "my messenger." So Malachi was God's messenger, the last messenger of the Old Testament period. The prophecy of Malachi is built around seven questions the people asked God. These questions revealed their doubting, discouraged, sinful heart. And now that prophecy was to cease for a while, Malachi speaks more clearly of the Messiah, who is soon to come, than any other of the prophets had done, and ends with imploring to the people of God to remember the law of Moses, while they were waiting for gospel of the Messiah.