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LOVING GODDeuteronomy 5–7 “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength” (Deut. 6:5). These chapters identify the fundamental principles of personal relationship with God. The rules which come later are merely illustrations of how these fundamental principles are to be applied by a peopleContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

Zephaniah INTRODUCTIONZephaniah prophesied during the reign of Josiah of Judah (640-609 B.C.). Distressed by the shallowness of Judah’s response to the godly king’s reformation, Zephaniah announced that sweeping judgment was about to fall on Jerusalem as well as on pagan nations.Zephaniah, the last of the preexilic prophets, summarized much of the judgment and salvation teachingContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

GOD’S PRIZED POSSESSIONMalachi 3–4 ” ’They will be Mine,’ says the LORD Almighty, ’in the day when I make up My treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him” (Mal. 3:17). The little Jewish community in Judea may have strayed from the Lord. But GodContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”

Malachi INTRODUCTIONMalachi is the last of the three postexilic prophets. He ministered to descendants of those who returned to Judea from the Babylonian Captivity. When Malachi wrote, priests and people had become lax in their worship at the rebuilt temple, which had been completed in 515 B.C. Through a series of sharp rhetorical questions MalachiContinue reading “The 365-Day Devotional Commentary”