Malachi — Group study guide
4 chapters · 36 questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
How to use it
Read one chapter per meeting. Each participant can mark their answers and write down what they learned.
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Malachi 1 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
Read first: Malachi 1 (KJV)
1. Against whom was the word of the LORD given to Malachi?
Malachi 1:1
- A. Against Israel
- B. Against Edom
- C. Against Babylon
- D. Against Egypt
2. The LORD loved Jacob; and what of Esau?
Malachi 1:2-3
- A. He blessed him
- B. He hated him
- C. He made him king
- D. He forgave him
3. If Edom builds, what does the LORD do with it?
Malachi 1:4
- A. He blesses it
- B. He magnifies it
- C. He throws it down
- D. He ignores it
4. The LORD will be magnified beyond what?
Malachi 1:5
- A. The sea
- B. Babylon
- C. The heavens
- D. The border of Israel
5. What should there be in us if we say the LORD is our master?
Malachi 1:6
- A. Fear
- B. Riches
- C. Pride
- D. Human wisdom
6. Who despised the name of the LORD?
Malachi 1:6
- A. The strangers
- B. The priests
- C. The children
- D. The kings
7. How did the priests dishonour the LORD?
Malachi 1:7
- A. By closing the temple
- B. By not singing
- C. By saying the table of the LORD is contemptible
- D. By selling the altar
8. What is great from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same?
Malachi 1:11
- A. The kingdom of Persia
- B. The empire of Babylon
- C. The sea
- D. The name of the LORD among the heathen
9. Was it right to sacrifice a corrupt thing to the LORD instead of the male of the flock?
Malachi 1:14
- Yes
- No
Notes
Malachi 2 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
Read first: Malachi 2 (KJV)
1. What were the priests to lay to heart?
Malachi 2:2
- A. To give glory unto his name
- B. To become rich
- C. To return to Babylon
- D. To build another altar
2. What would the LORD do with the dung of the sacrificed animals?
Malachi 2:3
- A. Burn it on the altar
- B. Spread it upon the priests' faces
- C. Use it for the fields
- D. Bury it
3. What kind of covenant did the LORD make with Levi?
Malachi 2:5
- A. A covenant of salt
- B. A covenant of war
- C. A covenant of life and peace
- D. A covenant of land
4. What was not found in Levi's lips?
Malachi 2:6
- A. Praise
- B. Wisdom
- C. Truth
- D. Iniquity
5. What should the priest's lips keep?
Malachi 2:7
- A. Knowledge
- B. Silence
- C. Gold
- D. The secret
6. What did the LORD do with the priests for not keeping his ways?
Malachi 2:9
- A. Made them rich
- B. Made them contemptible and base before all the people
- C. Sent them to Egypt
- D. Forgave them
7. Judah married the daughter of whom?
Malachi 2:11
- A. Of a king of Persia
- B. Of a priest
- C. Of a strange god
- D. Of Edom
8. With what did the LORD say the altar would be covered?
Malachi 2:13
- A. With gold
- B. With blood
- C. With flowers
- D. With tears, with weeping, and with crying out
9. With whom did a man in Israel deal treacherously?
Malachi 2:14
- A. With the wife of his youth
- B. With his neighbour
- C. With his king
- D. With his servant
10. Why did the LORD make a man and his wife one?
Malachi 2:15
- A. So they would work together
- B. Because he sought a godly seed
- C. So they would be rich
- D. So they would not be alone in war
11. What does the LORD hate?
Malachi 2:16
- A. Fasting
- B. Poverty
- C. Putting away (divorce)
- D. Singing
Notes
Malachi 3 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
Read first: Malachi 3 (KJV)
1. How shall the Lord come to his temple?
Malachi 3:1
- A. Slowly
- B. With a great army
- C. After a thousand years
- D. Suddenly
2. When the Lord appears, will man be able to stand?
Malachi 3:2
- Yes
- No
3. Why shall the Lord sit?
Malachi 3:3
- A. To rest
- B. To purify and purge the sons of Levi as gold and silver
- C. To judge Edom
- D. To eat with the priests
4. Against whom will the Lord be a swift witness?
Malachi 3:5
- A. Against the poor
- B. Against the children
- C. Against the sorcerers, the adulterers and false swearers
- D. Against the faithful Levites
5. Who is it that changes not?
Malachi 3:6
- A. The priest
- B. The king
- C. Man
- D. The LORD
6. In what did the people of Israel rob the LORD?
Malachi 3:8
- A. In tithes and offerings
- B. In the temple gold
- C. In their fields
- D. In their animals
7. Bringing the tithes into the storehouse is so that there may be what in the LORD's house?
Malachi 3:10
- A. Gold
- B. Meat
- C. Music
- D. Priests
8. What will the LORD pour out if the people bring the tithes?
Malachi 3:10
- A. Fire
- B. A rain of hail
- C. A blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it
- D. Judgment
9. When the tithes are brought, whom does the LORD rebuke?
Malachi 3:11
- A. The priest
- B. The king
- C. The neighbour
- D. The devourer
10. Why shall all nations call Israel blessed?
Malachi 3:12
- A. For they shall be a delightsome land
- B. Because they will have a great army
- C. Because they will have many kings
- D. Because they will live in Babylon
11. How did the LORD regard these words: It is vain to serve God?
Malachi 3:13-14
- A. Wise words
- B. Words stout against him
- C. Words of faith
- D. Words of praise
12. What shall God's people learn to discern?
Malachi 3:18
- A. Between day and night
- B. Between gold and silver
- C. Between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not
- D. Between Israel and Judah
Notes
Malachi 4 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
Read first: Malachi 4 (KJV)
1. Who shall be stubble in the day that shall burn as an oven?
Malachi 4:1
- A. The poor
- B. The children
- C. The priests
- D. All the proud, and all that do wickedly
2. For whom shall the Sun of righteousness arise?
Malachi 4:2
- A. For them that fear his name
- B. For all the kings
- C. For the proud
- D. For the Egyptians
3. Whom will the LORD send before the great and dreadful day comes?
Malachi 4:5
- A. Moses the prophet
- B. Elijah the prophet
- C. Isaiah the prophet
- D. Jeremiah the prophet
4. He shall turn the heart of the fathers to whom?
Malachi 4:6
- A. To the kings
- B. To the temple
- C. To the children
- D. To the prophets