“I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord”

Day 1 · I Have Loved You

1. Malachi opens with the Lord declaring “I have loved you,” and the people respond with what question?
2. What example does the Lord give of His love, contrasting Jacob and Esau?
3. What complaint does the Lord bring against the priests regarding sacrifices offered on His altar?
4. The Lord asks whether the priests would dare offer such blemished animals to whom?
5. What does Malachi 1:11 say about the Lord's name among the Gentiles, from the rising to the setting sun?

Day 2 · The Wife of Thy Covenant

1. What does the Lord say He hates, regarding the treatment of “the wife of thy youth”?
2. What covenant had the priests corrupted, according to Malachi 2?
3. How had the priests “caused many to stumble” in their teaching role?
4. Malachi 2:10 asks, “Have we not all one father? hath not one God” done what to us?
5. What does Malachi 2:15–16 say the Lord wants husband and wife to guard carefully?

Day 3 · Windows of Heaven

1. Malachi 3:1 prophesies the Lord would send a messenger to do what?
2. What does Malachi 3:2 compare the Lord's refining influence to?
3. What does the Lord invite the people to do in Malachi 3:10, promising to open the “windows of heaven”?
4. What does Malachi 3:10 say will happen once they prove the Lord in this?
5. What does Malachi 3:16 say the Lord does for those who fear him and think upon his name?

Day 4 · The Sun of Righteousness

1. Malachi 4:1 describes the day of the Lord as one that shall burn like what?
2. Who specifically does Malachi 4:1 say will be as “stubble” on that day?
3. For those who fear the Lord's name, Malachi 4:2 promises the “Sun of righteousness” will arise with what in his wings?
4. What does Malachi 4:2 say the people will do once healed, like calves let loose?
5. What ultimate outcome does Malachi 4:3 promise the righteous regarding the wicked?

Day 5 · Turn the Heart of the Fathers

1. Who does Malachi 4:5 prophesy the Lord will send before the great and dreadful day of the Lord?
2. What is Elijah's mission described as in Malachi 4:6?
3. What warning closes the book of Malachi, if this turning of hearts does not happen?
4. Malachi 4:4 first counsels the people to remember the law of whom, given at Horeb?
5. ★ In the Kirtland Temple in 1836, who appeared and quoted this very Elijah prophecy, restoring the sealing keys?

Day 6 · Proving the Lord

1. Malachi invites the people to “prove” the Lord by bringing their tithes into the storehouse, promising to open the “windows of heaven.” What attitude does this invitation encourage regarding obedience to God's commandments?
2. Malachi invites the people to “prove” the Lord by paying tithing, promising He will “open… the windows of heaven.” What is unusual about this invitation?
3. Malachi prophesied that Elijah would come to “turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.” What does this point to?

Day 7 · “Keys, Covenants, and Easter”

1. Elder Quentin L. Cook testified that the keys committed by ancient prophets to Joseph Smith in the Kirtland Temple are what?
2. Elder Cook taught that the keys committed to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple are what?
3. Speaking on Easter Sunday, Elder Cook testified that Christ's Atonement provides what?