Malachi 1:11

God wants the whole of us… not our leftovers.  

God wants every part of us, mind, body and spirit, not just the parts that we allow the world to see. He wants us to give Him the inner man who realizes he is deeply in need of a Savior. Our adoration, our worship, our prayers, are our offering to the Almighty God. Our testimony of faith honors the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

This final book of the Old Testament is about the error of forgetting the love of God. When people forget God’s love, it affects their attitudes, home, and worship. With God’s love and loyalty in doubt, sacred commitments no longer remain sacred. God sent Malachi to rouse the people from their spiritual stupor and to exhort them to return to the living God. But the Book of Malachi reveals a people who question the reality of their sin and the faithfulness of God, a people hardened through and through.

God would one day receive praise from all the nations. Even the despised Gentiles would offer praise, while God’s own people were profaning His holy name.

Malachi 1:11

¹¹ For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,

My name shall be great among the Gentiles;

In every place incense shall be offered to My name,

And a pure offering;

For My name shall be great among the nations,”

Says the Lord of hosts.

¹⁹ So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. 

Isaiah 59:19

³ The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. 

Isaiah 60:3

¹⁸ “For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. 

Isaiah 66:18

¹ Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! ² For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord! 

Psalm 117:1–2