BBB Bible Series: Malachi Trivia Quiz

Answer: "God's Messenger"

Malachi's name in Hebrew meant "Yahweh's Messenger". In his book he tries to write God's words to His people. The message rebukes, instructs, and offers hope.

Answer: "I have loved you."

In the book of Malachi, God beings speaking to his people because they doubt his love for them. Israel had been destroyed by their enemies, but God was in the process of avenging them. God wanted them to know that He still loved them, even though their belief was small because of the horrible circumstances they had been through. (Malachi 1:2-3)

Answer: Esau

God reminded His people that He loved Jacob over Esau. Esau had been the first born and the rightful heir, but God had given his inheritance and blessing to Jacob.

Edomites were the descendants of Esau and boasted that they would rebuild what God had crushed. God told the Israelites he would turn the country of the Edomites into a wasteland for desert jackals. He told them the Edomites would always be a people that would be under the wrath of God. (Malachi 1:3-5)

Answer: They had given blemished sacrifices.

God asked, "When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong?" He told them to try offering their sacrifices to governors or kings. Kings or governors would not accept it because they wanted the best of the best. God wanted to be treated with the same respect. (Malachi 1:6-14)

Answer: priests

God threatened to curse the priests because they did not honor His name and did not practice the law like they were supposed to. They allowed God's people to sin, instead of holding them accountable.

God told the priests, "A priest is supposed to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. But you have turned from the way and committed evil. Many listen to you and are deceived. You have violated my laws and my covenant with your father Levi. So I will cause you to be despised and humiliated in front of all the people for not following my commands" (Malachi 2:1-9)

Answer: their spouses

God viewed marriage as a covenant that should not be broken. He wanted his people to be unified and be faithful to each other, as He loved them. He told them the reason that he did not accept some of their offerings was because they were unfaithful to their spouses and were serving idols.

He told them that if a man hates and divorces his wife, he does harm to her and his family. (Malachi 2:10-16)

Answer: A messenger

God promised to send a messenger who would come and prepare them. He told them after the messenger came, they would find the
One they desired in the temple. He would set the priests straight, make the temple a holy place, and bless the sacrifices again.

God told His people,"I will quick to judge against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me." (Malachi 3:1-5)

Answer: They were not giving Him tithes.

God viewed the tithes, the first portion, as the part that was rightfully His in all His people produced or did. The tithes helped feed and pay the priests who kept the temple. However many of the Israelites did not pay tithes. God told them to put it to the test and gave them a promise.

"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe. Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land." (Malachi 3:6-12)

Answer: They would prosper.

God promised to burn the wicked with fire and destroy them in the last days. However God told the Israelites, "For those who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.

Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act." He reminded to keep the laws of Moses. (Malachi 4:1-4)

Answer: Elijah

In His last words in the book of Malachi, God told His people that He would send the prophet Elijah to turn the hearts of men. God told His people, "He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents, or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction." (Malachi 4: 5-6)