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* ReligiousRussianRoulette: God directly tells people to "put Me to the test" by testing whether they benefited from being [[OfferingsToTheGods tithed]].
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* ParentalFavoritism: In the first several verses, God speaks of "loving Jacob and hating Esau" (metaphors for both Israel and Edom, respectively) and making Esau's land a wilderness and a place for jackals. It's to remind Israel that, despite all the hard things he has to say to them through his prophet, He still loves them.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The whole book is basically this to the Levitical priests, due to their mistreatment and indifferent attitude toward their duties of serving God. To wit: offering blemished sacrifices, showing partiality to the Law of God, marriages to women of foreign gods, divorcing their earlier wives for such marriages, complaining about people that "test God and escape", withholding their tithes from God. In the middle of that speech, God says that He will come and purify the sons of Levi so that they will present offerings in righteousness.
* StopWorshippingMe: "Who is there among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on My altar in vain?" (Malachi 1:10) Basically, if you're not going to give God your best when you offer your sacrifices in worship, then why waste your time giving anything to Him for an offering?
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The whole book is basically this to the Levitical priests, due to their mistreatment and indifferent attitude toward their duties of serving God. To wit: offering blemished sacrifices, showing partiality to the Law of God, marriages to women of foreign gods, divorcing their earlier wives for such marriages, complaining about people that "test God and escape", withholding their tithes from God. In the middle of that speech, God says that He will come and purify the sons of Levi so that they will present offerings in righteousness.
* StopWorshippingMe: "Who is there among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on My altar in vain?" (Malachi 1:10) Basically, if you're not going to give God your best when you offer your sacrifices in worship, then why waste your time giving anything to Him for an offering?
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* ParentalFavoritism: In the first several verses, God speaks of "loving "accepting Jacob and hating rejecting Esau" (metaphors for both Israel and Edom, respectively) and making Esau's land a wilderness and a place for jackals. It's to remind Israel that, despite all the hard things he He has to say to them through his His prophet, He still loves them.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The whole book isbasically this to the Levitical priests, due to their mistreatment and indifferent attitude toward their duties of serving God. To wit: offering blemished sacrifices, showing partiality to the Law of God, marriages to women of foreign gods, divorcing their earlier wives for such marriages, complaining about people that "test "dared God and escape", escaped", withholding their tithes from God. In the middle of that speech, God says that He will come and purify the sons of Levi so that they will present offerings in righteousness.
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* GoodForBad: God in Malachi 1:14 says "cursed be the deceiver who has in his flock a male, and vows, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished." Basically saying that God does not like people conning Him out of good sacrificial animals by offering a bad one in its place.
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* MeaningfulName: Malachi means "My messenger", and his book is one from God to His people, also prophesying the coming of God's Messenger before the Lord's coming.
