Malachi Trivia Quiz

Answer: Esau

Malachi 1:2 says, "I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob."

The story of Jacob and Esau can be read in the book of Genesis, beginning in Chapter 25.

Answer: honoureth his father

Malachi 1:6 says, "A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?"

God is comparing the father/son relation with the people's relation to Him in this verse to help them understand why He should be honored.

Answer: priests

Malachi 2:1 begins, "And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you."

The actual commandment he gives is found in Malachi 2:2: "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart."

Answer: one father

Malachi 2:10 asks, "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?"

This verse explains why we should learn to get along with one another.

Answer: His messenger

Malachi 3:1 announces, "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts."

Christians believe that the first messenger mentioned in this verse is John the Baptist and the "messenger of the covenant" is Jesus.

Answer: No

Malachi 3:6 says, "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."

This is one of the themes throughout the Bible, that God is unchanging.

Answer: in tithes and offerings

Malachi 3:8 asks, "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings."

A tithe is 1/10 of what you earn from working. Since God gave the ability to work and earn money, He says some of that is to be given back to the church.

Answer: the wicked

Malachi 4:3 says, "And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts."

This verse is interpreted as being in regards to the prophesy that one day Satan will be defeated.

Answer: Moses

Malachi 4:4 advises, "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments."

Moses was the man to whom God gave the Ten Commandments (commonly called "the law") up on Mount Sinai, as recounted in the Book of Exodus.

Answer: curse

Malachi 4:6 says, "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

I hope you enjoyed this quiz. The next quiz will be on the book of Matthew.