Malachi 3:1


“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty ~ Malachi 3:1

Malachi was a prophet from the Old Testament times, somewhere during the time of 445 and 425 B.C. For us Christians, he is considered the last prophet before the arrival of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ the Messiah. Isaiah had foretold of this same messenger in 40:3: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God”. Luke 1:76 then confirms this in the birth of John the Baptist. This verse is considered as one of several of the most Messianic verses in the Old Testament, and this verse in particular is considered one of the “most brilliant and revealing prophecies of Jesus Christ in the whole Bible” (Coffman). In our day, we still have voices which declare Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, the Saviour of the world. In our day, we still have people who reject the voice of the one who cries out, trying to lead the hearer to recognize the One they desire is here and present. We no longer have to wait, for He has arrived, yet still people search for hope and justice and peace in other places and in other things. John the Baptist was to call the people to repentance, and point the way to the One greater than himself. Witnesses today do the same. Have you heard the Good News? Have you responded to the One who is the covenant God, the One you desire and seek?

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