Spoke 17: Malachi Menu

Spoke 17: Malachi

Here are the similarities of subjects found between the 2 texts. On the left hand you'll find the innerwheels of the books (the Bible Wheel has 22 spokes of a wheel, therefore the innerwheels have 22 spoke cycles). I am comparing Deuteronomy 17, 1Kings 17, 2Kings 17 and so on with the 17th book of the 2nd Cycle (the 2nd Cycle begins with the prophet Isaiah) Malachi.

Spoke 17: Malachi the 17th Book of the 2nd Cycle
Deuteronomy 17 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify Offering unacceptable sacrifices; The priests and Levites to minister and teach the fear of the LORD to the people; The Israelites chose to seek a king like the Gentiles; Malachi 2 - Listen - Verify The priests ought to know God's judgments and what is evil or an abomination unto the LORD; God is against the multiplying of wives both to the king and the priest; A national abomination is committed in Judah and Israel; The word mouth in Hebrew is Peh which is also the name of the 17th letter of the Hebrew Alphabet; The law should be taught even to the king so that he would no turn aside or depart from it: Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify The priests should judge the wicked. But in Malachi they take the wicked's side; God encourages the priests to serve the LORD of hosts instead of the hosts of heaven; God will be a witness to stand in judgment; The priest stand to minister before the LORD; God's promised Messenger will sit as a king (as a refiner); The priests have turned away from the statutes and ordinances; Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify Malachi reminds the people of Moses who wrote the statutes and judgments (perhaps of Deuteronomy 17);
1Kings 17 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify How was it interpreted that Elijah was meant to fulfill this role? Could it be that the city where he came from, Tishbeh, comes from the word repent/return (shub)? It certainly is close to the next Hebrew word in the phrase Towshab; Elijah was considered to be the prophet of the LORD and possibly a priest since Ramoth-Gilead was a region which was given to the priests (1Chronicles 6:80); Malachi 2 - Listen - Verify Malachi mentions that the priest who practiced the law had God's word in his mouth and truth; Elijah's sentence starts with, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, whereas God's covenant with the Levite was for life and peace; Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify Malachi is asking who will be able to stand when God appears. Elijah says he is standing before God; It seems like the widow of Zarephath was oppressed that because of the lack of rain she and her son only had enough to eat. But Elijah being a Levite (from Tishbeh a Levitical suburb in Ramoth Gilead) asks his portion first; Also the name Zarephath means to refine and in Malachi 3:2-3 the LORD's messenger wiil come and refine the sons of Levi; Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify Perhaps what is identical between Elijah's conflict with Ahab and Elijah's ministry in Malachi is repentance. Ahab means father's brother. But could it also mean brother to the father? Could this be that Ahab repented and his heart was turned to the Father (1Kings 21) therefore becoming the Father's brother? God said he would smite the earth with a cuse and he sent no rain in Elijah's days:
2Kings 17 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify It seems to me like God was on the side of the Assyrians at this point that if Hoshea had given the king of Assyria then would Hoshea be free to rule Israel. For the same reason God wanted offerings which weren't done in Malachi 1; A priest is sent back to Samaria/Israel to teach the Samaritans to law of the LORD; The children of Israel built high places like Edom as mentioned in Malachi 1; The Samaritans feared other gods but God said he would make the heathen fear his name; Malachi 2 - Listen (part 1) Both God and Shalmaneser the king of Assyria sent one of the priests taken away captive to return to Israel and teach the Gentile Samaritans the law of God; God sent Israel a curse by carrying them away out of their land. However the Gentiles which Shalmaneser brought ignored the law of God and God sent them lions and wild beasts and devoured some of them, which is a curse unto them; God made certain that the people would know the reason why he cursed the people in the land, because they haven't kept his commandments. He rejected the seed of Israel and corrupted the seed of the priests and Levites; (part 2) Whereas Shalmaneser the king of Assyria found a conspiracy in Hosea the priests, as described in Malachi 2 found the priests at first to be blameless. They turned many from their iniquity because of the truth found in their mouth; Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify
1Chronicles 17 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify Malachi 2 - Listen - Verify Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify
2Chronicles 17 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify Malachi 2 - Listen - Verify Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify
Isaiah 17 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify Malachi 2 - Listen - Verify Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify
Isaiah 39 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify Malachi 2 - Listen - Verify Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify
Isaiah 61 - Listen	Malachi 1 - Listen - Verify Malachi 2 - Listen - Verify Malachi 3 - Listen - Verify Malachi 4 - Listen - Verify