Robbing God
Malachi 3:8-12Robbing God Stewardship Sunday, November 3, 2002 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn to the book of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, to the third chapter. The stewardship committee has chosen Malachi 3:10 as this year's stewardship theme verse and it seems appropriate to look at that passage and its context in some detail. Malachi prophesied during what Old Testament scholars called the Persian Period. That is the period of time in which the exiles, who had been taken off into parts of Persia, came back to Jerusalem, successively rebuilding the temple and the walls of Jerusalem and restoring some modicum of normalcy to the nation of Israel. And during the reconstruction and dedication of the second temple, we begin to have prophets addressing…