This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we hear the message of Malachi seeing how he utilizes a question and answer format

to prophetically speak to the people of God. Here we are at Malachi.

We've got one more book after this. You could call this maybe the last of our prophetic

voices. We've got the book of Esther still to come. Not considered a prophetic voice in Jewish

thought or our Gentile Bibles. But Malachi, we have a listener that's been waiting for us to get

to Malachi for months. And the last time she was waiting for us to get to a book, we got to

discussion group and then she blew our minds with what she had found. Some of the little nervous

text should record this podcast because Emily is going to show up and she's going to give me

material that I should have put in the podcast. It's been holding out of us. So looking forward to

that. But anyway, here's Malachi. The frustrations and struggles that we dealt with in the remnant.

I mean, we've been looking at, can we remember the remnant voices we've encountered Brent? We had

Ezra Niemaya. Ezra Niemaya before that. Fourth Isaiah. Ezra Niemaya. Hageye. Hageye.

Zakariya. Zakariya. Right. So we've seen frustrations and struggles in a lot of ways. We've

seen prophets trying to give them hope to persevere through that. But those struggles spoken,

especially in Haggai and Zakariya, they eventually boil over. And those frustrations find their

fruition in the decades that follow the restoration of Jerusalem. To put it simply, the people are

disappointed that things didn't turn out the way they had dreamed. Like you can imagine being the

people who've got coming back from Persia and you have like all these great aspirations. Like,

not trying to be too clever here, but you're going to make Jerusalem great again. Like you're going

to go back, you're going to rebuild everything, right? Are you sure you don't want to go back and say

that differently? It's just such a phrase. It's just sitting there, you know? We always have these

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