Aaron Schart - Malachi

Still, the idea of Israel is also employed when Zechariah 14 describes the eschatological role of Israel on the day of Yhwh. In that context Israel is also a factor in God’s eschatological plan of salvation. Israel will be purified and will worship the God of the whole world in a sanctified Jerusalem; Israel will also lead the remnant of the nations to celebrate Sukkoth together (Zech 14:16). Then enduring peace will rule, but until then Israel’s obligation is to shape the worship at the temple and its daily life in such a way that they remain oriented toward the eschatological goal.

Malachi as God’s messenger The word of God for this Israel is given “into the hands” of a person whose name recalls the various passages in the Malachi document that speak of a “messenger.” Even if it may be assuming a too complicated structure of thought to suppose that the prophet himself claims to be the messenger about whom the writing speaks, there are suggestions of associative links. 13The prophet’s name invites special attention on the part of the audience to the multiple messenger figures, the “messenger of Yhwh” (Mal 3:1a), the “messenger of the covenant” (3:1b), the “messenger of Yhwh of hosts” (2:7), all of them found in secondary insertions. It is Yhwh himself, so the text suggests, who commissions various messenger figures to make known the one “word of Yhwh.”

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