Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Malachi 3:7
From mine ordinances — Which either directed my worship, or your dealings one with another.
From mine ordinances — Which either directed my worship, or your dealings one with another.
Verse Malachi 3:7. _GONE AWAY FROM MINE ORDINANCES_] Never acting according to their spirit and design. _RETURN UNTO ME_] There is still space to repent. _WHEREIN SHALL WE RETURN?_] Their conscience...
EVEN FROM THE DAYS OF YOUR FATHERS - Back to those days and from them ye are gone away from My ordinances. “I am not changed from good; ye are not changed from evil. I am unchangeable in holiness; ye...
REBUKE FOR DEFRAUDING THE LORD CHAPTER 3:7-15 Another rebuke is administered. They were alway a stiff-necked people, never obedient to His ordinances. His gracious call to return unto Him, and the pr...
TITHES AND THE DIVINE BLESSING. The people cannot hope to win God's favour so long as they Withhold God's dues. When the tithes (Deuteronomy 12:17 f; Deuteronomy 14:22 *, Numbers 18:21 *,...
Malachi 3:7 to Malachi 4:3. Renewed Rebukes, Threatenings and Promises Ch. Malachi 3:7-12. Rebuke in the matter of Tithes and Offerings 7. _Even from the days of your fathers_ Omit EVEN, with R.V. Th...
_THE SIN OF INGRATITUDE -- MALACHI 3:6-12:_ The people did not see that they had any need to repent. Malachi moved to discuss in more details two specific sins of the Jews. The first was that they wer...
IF THE PEOPLE WILL RETURN IN DEVOTION TO GOD HE WILL YET BLESS THEM. Malachi 3:7-12 RV. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me...
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we re...
3 The Speedy Judgment 1. This v. is closely connected with the preceding. It is the answer to the question, 'Where is the God of judgment?' The messenger is evidently a prophet or a succession of pro...
MY *MESSENGER MALACHI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 ‘Look at me! I will send my *messenger. He will prepare the way for me. Then, suddenly, the *Lord that you are looking for will come to his...
REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:18). (17) A new section of the prophecy begins with this verse. The prophet now directs his reproofs against the people...
EVEN FROM... FATHERS. — Throughout the whole course of their history they had been a people (Exodus 32:9, &c.); and now, when exhorted to repent, they ask in feigned innocence: — WHEREIN SHALL WE RET...
לְ מִ ימֵ֨י אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֜ם סַרְתֶּ֤ם מֵֽ חֻקַּי֙
6. REPENTANCE BY TITHES Malachi 3:6 This section ought perhaps to follow on to the preceding. Those whom it blames for not paying the Temple tithes may be the skeptics addressed in the previous secti...
Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1 PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW "MALACHI" 1-4 BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of "Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...
A PURGING FROM EVIL Malachi 3:1-12 The opening verses of this chapter stir the heart like the call of a trumpet. We remember how literally they were fulfilled in the presentation of our Lord in the T...
The last division of the Book contains the prophet's announcement of the coming of Messiah. It falls into three sections, one dealing with the coming One, one dealing with the Coming Day, and one utte...
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. (g) Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall...
Oh! what a charge is here, after contemplating the unchangeable nature of our covenant God in Christ, as in the preceding verse to consider our sad departure from the Lord. Reader! do not confine this...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and in a me...
The Prophet expands more fully what he had referred to — that it was a wonder that the Jews had not perished, because they had never ceased to provoke God against themselves. He then sets this fact be...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral condition of...
EVEN FROM THE DAYS OF YOUR FATHERS YE ARE GONE AWAY FROM MINE ORDINANCES,.... Here begins an enumeration of the sins of the Jews, which were the cause of their ruin; and here is first a general charge...
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them]. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we r...
_Even from the days of your fathers_, &c. Here the discourse is again addressed to the wicked, and from hence to the end of Mal 3:12 the people are reprehended for slighting the institutions of divine...
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from Mine ordinances and have not kept them, this being the reason why He has withheld the fullness of His blessing and salvation from them. RETURN...
THE PEOPLE REBUKED...
7-12 The men of that generation turned away from God, they had not kept his ordinances. God gives them a gracious call. But they said, Wherein shall we return? God notices what returns our hearts mak...
EVEN FROM THE DAYS OF YOUR FATHERS: we need not fix a particular time or age wherein this apostacy began; it is an old apostacy that is here charged on them, and they were notoriously guilty of it. YE...
Malachi 3:7 days H3117 fathers H1 away H5493 (H8804) ordinances H2706 kept H8104 (H8804) Return H7725 ...
YHWH BRINGS A FURTHER CHARGE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE. THEY HAVE FAILED IN THEIR OFFERING OF TITHES (MALACHI 3:7). There were no doubt some who could still feel pretty pleased with themselves. They could in...
Malachi 3:7 I. This is one of those verses which show most clearly and graciously the forethought of our heavenly Teacher, in providing for us the Old Testament: (1) in that words spoken on a particul...
Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:_ The name Malachi means «my messenger.» The reference here is, of course, to John the Baptist, who was to prepa...
CONTENTS: Mission of John the Baptist, and Christ's first advent foretold. Israel exhorted to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Malachi, John the Baptist. CONCLUSION: Those who deny God His pa...
Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me._ John the baptist, as our Saviour himself expounds this passage. Matthew 11:7. _The Lord whom ye seek,_ and for whom...
_Ye are gone away from Mine ordinances._ MISUSED RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES In proportion to the value and the importance of our privileges, is apt to be our negligence, our carelessness, in improving them...
MALACHI 3:6 Fifth Dispute: How Shall We Repent? Can a Man Rob God? Malachi returns to the subject of Israel’s offerings, which he first addressed in the second dispute (Malachi 1:6). When Israe
CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 3:6. I Jehovah] am unchangeable in gifts and calling, therefore sons of JACOB] (contrasted with Jehovah) will not be destroyed. “The Divine immutability secured the preservati...
EXPOSITION MALACHI 3:1 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND (_I send_) MY MESSENGER. God answers that he is coming to show himself the God of judgment and justice. Are they ready to meet him and to bear his sentence?...
Now the promise of the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner to Jesus Christ. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenl...
1 Kings 8:47; Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52; Deuteronomy 30:1; Deuteronomy
VITAL QUESTIONS Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response, instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...
THE TITHE CHAPTER Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When one reads the Book of Malachi he would think that the Holy Spirit was writing a message to the churches of the twentieth century, especially to...