This article focuses on Malachi 3:1-2, which points to the promise of the Messenger. The article discusses further how this promise is fulfilled in the New Testament through the coming of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.

This article reflects on the messianic character of Malachi 3:1. This study of a familiar problem offers a survey of the interpretative options of the identities involved, evaluates what can be said with confidence, and demonstrates a way forward to read the text from a christological perspective.

This article reflects on attempts to discover hints of the Trinity in the Old Testament. Many scholars continue to promote the so-called “two Gods texts" as demonstrating something of the Old Testament plurality of God.

This article builds on research done on the influence of Malachi 3 on 1 Peter 1. It wants to investigate the possible influence of Malachi on 1 Corinthians 3, which depicts God testing his church by fire.

This article examines how Peter in 1 Peter 4:12-19 uses the imagery of Malachi 3 of the Lord coming as the refiner's fire to refine his servants. By using this imagery Peter identifies believers as the new temple of God, and encourages them in their suffering.

Was John the Baptist the fulfillment of the promise of Malachi 3 and Malachi 4 concerning the prophet who was to come on the day of the Lord? Kaiser offers a hermeneutical solution to this question as a generic fulfillment, meaning that Elijah has come "in the spirit and power" witnessed in John the Baptist, and will yet come in the future.

This article focuses on Malachi 3:16-18, discussing the believers' fear of God and God's faithfulness toward them.

This article focuses on Malachi 3:13-15, discussing the distinction between God's people in Israel and the unrepentant wicked.

This article focuses on Malachi 3:10-12, discussing prosperity, God's providence, and God's blessings.

This article focuses on Malachi 3:7-9, examining the sin of robbing God through the neglect of tithes and offerings.

This article focuses on Malachi 3:3-6, discussing God's work of purifying his people so that their worship is pleasing to him.

Malachi 3:10 must be understood in the context of the Old Testament and in relation to the other laws. Therefore, it will be wrong to demand tithing from Christians today based on this text. This article shows that the New Testament encourages Christians to give in response to grace shown them. The author also discusses guidelines to giving and means of giving.

This author discusses Malachi 2 and Malachi 3, and their application to the church today.

This article address the question whether tithing, that is, giving ten percent of one’s income, is obligatory for Christians. This is the first in a series of two articles investigating this question by studying all references to tithing in Scripture. The discussion commences with Old Testament references to tithing prior to the giving of the Mosaic Law, the Mosaic Law itself and the historical and prophetic books, notably Malachi 3:8. This is followed by a close reading of the three major New Testament passages on tithing, i.e.