God’s Covenant of Life and Peace

Rev. Haak is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Lynden, Washington. Malachi's method in exposing the sins of his day was to hold those sins up before the light of God's gracious goodness to His people, thus exposing the horribleness of their sin as it is seen against the background. Later in the prophecy he gives a list of the sordid sins being committed (ch. 3:5). Here, however, he expresses the depth of those sins, not by going into all the details, but by holding them up before the...