Malachi — Group study guide
Leader version
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.
Contents
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Malachi 1 — Study questions
Leader version
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
Correct answer: A. Against Israel
To Israel.
Malachi 1:1
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
Correct answer: B. He hated him
He hated him.
Malachi 1:2-3
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
Correct answer: C. He throws it down
He throws it down.
Malachi 1:4
4. The LORD will be magnified beyond what?
Malachi 1:5
- A. The sea
- B. Babylon
- C. The heavens
- D. The border of Israel
Correct answer: D. The border of Israel
From the border of Israel.
Malachi 1:5
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
Correct answer: A. Fear
There should be fear.
Malachi 1:6
6. Who despised the name of the LORD?
Malachi 1:6
- A. The strangers
- B. The priests
- C. The children
- D. The kings
Correct answer: B. The priests
The priests.
Malachi 1:6
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
Correct answer: C. By saying the table of the LORD is contemptible
In that they thought the table of the LORD was contemptible.
Malachi 1:7
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
Correct answer: D. The name of the LORD among the heathen
The name of the LORD among the heathen.
Malachi 1:11
9. Was it right to sacrifice a corrupt thing to the LORD instead of the male of the flock?
Malachi 1:14
- Yes
- No
Correct answer: No
No, it is not right to offer a corrupt thing.
Malachi 1:14
Notes
Malachi 2 — Study questions
Leader version
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
Correct answer: A. To give glory unto his name
To give glory unto his name.
Malachi 2:2
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
Correct answer: B. Spread it upon the priests' faces
Spread it upon the faces of the priests.
Malachi 2:3
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
Correct answer: C. A covenant of life and peace
A covenant of life and peace.
Malachi 2:5
4. What was not found in Levi's lips?
Malachi 2:6
- A. Praise
- B. Wisdom
- C. Truth
- D. Iniquity
Correct answer: D. Iniquity
Iniquity.
Malachi 2:6
5. What should the priest's lips keep?
Malachi 2:7
- A. Knowledge
- B. Silence
- C. Gold
- D. The secret
Correct answer: A. Knowledge
Knowledge.
Malachi 2:7
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
Correct answer: B. Made them contemptible and base before all the people
He made them contemptible and base before all the people.
Malachi 2:9
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
Correct answer: C. Of a strange god
Of a strange god.
Malachi 2:11
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
Correct answer: D. With tears, with weeping, and with crying out
With tears, with weeping, and with crying out.
Malachi 2:13
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
Correct answer: A. With the wife of his youth
With the wife of his youth.
Malachi 2:14
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
Correct answer: B. Because he sought a godly seed
Because he sought a seed for himself.
Malachi 2:15
11. What does the LORD hate?
Malachi 2:16
- A. Fasting
- B. Poverty
- C. Putting away (divorce)
- D. Singing
Correct answer: C. Putting away (divorce)
Putting away.
Malachi 2:16
Notes
Malachi 3 — Study questions
Leader version
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
Correct answer: D. Suddenly
Suddenly.
Malachi 3:1
2. When the Lord appears, will man be able to stand?
Malachi 3:2
- Yes
- No
Correct answer: No
No.
Malachi 3:2
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
Correct answer: B. To purify and purge the sons of Levi as gold and silver
To purify the sons of Levi; he shall purge them as gold and silver.
Malachi 3:3
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
Correct answer: C. Against the sorcerers, the adulterers and false swearers
Against the sorcerers and the adulterers, and against false swearers.
Malachi 3:5
5. Who is it that changes not?
Malachi 3:6
- A. The priest
- B. The king
- C. Man
- D. The LORD
Correct answer: D. The LORD
The LORD.
Malachi 3:6
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
Correct answer: A. In tithes and offerings
In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:8
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
Correct answer: B. Meat
Food.
Malachi 3:10
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
Correct answer: C. A blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it
A blessing until it overflows.
Malachi 3:10
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
Correct answer: D. The devourer
The devourer.
Malachi 3:11
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
Correct answer: A. For they shall be a delightsome land
Because it shall be a delightsome land.
Malachi 3:12
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
Correct answer: B. Words stout against him
Stout words.
Malachi 3:13-14
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
Correct answer: C. Between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not
Between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Malachi 3:18
Notes
Malachi 4 — Study questions
Leader version
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
Correct answer: D. All the proud, and all that do wickedly
All the proud, and all that do wickedly.
Malachi 4:1
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
Correct answer: A. For them that fear his name
Unto them that fear his name.
Malachi 4:2
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
Correct answer: B. Elijah the prophet
Elijah the prophet.
Malachi 4:5
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
Correct answer: C. To the children
To the children.
Malachi 4:6