The prophet Malachi has, to this point, focused on the wrong attitudes and actions of the priests and the Israelites themselves. Now, at the end of the prophecy, the LORD offers a word of hope to the faithful remnant.
We have already read in Malachi how the people make a clamor at the LORD's altar, weeping and complaining that the LORD will not accept their offerings. Tonight's lesson shows how the people continue to justify their sinful choices, even though the LORD has always been faithful to them.