Read: Malachi 1:1-2:17; Revelation 21:1-27; Psalm 149:1-9; Proverbs 31:10-24
God loved Jacob and his offspring because he wanted the inheritance of God. God hated Esau and his people because Esau had despised his inheritance. Jacob was a type of people who would choose God and Esau was a type of the people who would not. Edom was the land of Esau which the Lord said would never be rebuilt or redeemed. Instead it would become a place where those who do not trust in the Lord and would be under his wrath would stay. It will be called the Wicked Land.
Malachi explained that it was God’s people, the priests of Judah who were the ones who were bringing offerings to the Lord of animals that were maimed and crippled. These priests would be cursed if they refused to repent.
God told them what a priest should be doing. He should be preserving knowledge and seeking instruction because he is God’s messenger. He should not be making things up and saying that God said it.
God was also rebuked there grand displays of crying and wailing at the altar to be heard of Him. They had left the wife of their youth, their first love. They were preaching that God was pleased with them that did evil and that they were still be good in the eyes of the Lord.
In Revelation, John saw the new heaven and the new earth. It will be a new order. Death and sorrow will be defeated. One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls of the plagues told John to come with him to see the bride. She was the city of Jerusalem. Jesus and God were the temple and their glory lit the sky eternally. All the nations will bring their best to it. The gates would never be shut again and no sin would enter it but only those whose names were written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Lord, we cannot begin to understand your great wisdom. We praise you.
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