Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Messenger - Part 1\n Malachi 4:1\n 12\/09\/2024\n\n\n 1 For behold, the day is coming, burning like an\n oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will\n be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them\n ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will\n leave them neither root nor branch. (ESV)\n\n Although everywhere you look you see Santa Claus and the\n wishes for a Merry Christmas, the Church is still in the season\n of Advent. We are preparing for the coming of Jesus, both as we\n remember His first coming two thousand years ago, and look\n forward to His return to judge the living and the dead.\n Traditionally the second Sunday in Advent looks forward to His\n second coming.\n\n Malachi, the prophet, wrote not only for those who lived\n four hundred years before Jesus' birth, but for the modern\n Church. The words of this book are clear, but there is some\n question about the author. Is Malachi the name of the prophet,\n or is this a title. In the Hebrew the word Malachi means ``my\n messenger'' or ``my angel,'' which certainly can be applied as\n the title for someone appointed by God to call His people back to\n repentance.\n\n For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven,\n when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be\n stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze,\n says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them\n neither root nor branch.\n\n\n Malachi writes of the entire New Testament era, not merely\n the final judgment. This era extends from the day that the angel\n Gabriel told Zechariah of the coming of John the Baptizer to the\n day when the final trumpet sounds. We are in the last days, as\n the author of Hebrews contends: ``Long ago, at many times and in\n many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these\n last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the\n heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.''[1]\n\n May our Lord grant us wisdom to hear His messenger. Amen.\n ____________________\n\n 1. Hebrews 1:1-2 (ESV)<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 9, 2024 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}