"POLLUTED BREAD: The Spirit of MALACHI!"

The Spirit of Malachi has been trashed by a generation of greedy church leaders looking for a quick payday on the backs of the poor, widows, orphans, uneducated, naive and just plain stupid! This Book in NOT about TITHING! It is about forgetting the love of God. Malachi revealed the reality of the sin of Israel. Israel was in denial. Israel had fallen away from their love of God. Israel was unfaithful to God and itself. Divorce was rampant. Poverty was prevalent. Yet, Malachi prophesied of John the Baptist and Jesus. He told them that the Messiah would bridge the gap between God and man.

Malachi, whose name means "My Messenger" in Hebrew, was a warrior in the purest sense. The Lord God deemed the prophet an "oracle." An oracle is a person through whom a deity (God) is believed to speak. He had the burden of judging the priests and the people, for their blatant transgressions against God. It was the priests who were "robbing God" with food not "money." They were robbing God of their affections and loyalty. Their hearts were wicked and their affections ran cold. Israel had become a nation of idolaters, adulterers and thieves. God hated them for that and He told them so!

Malachi indicted the priests for their repeated offenses against the spirit and letter of the Law. The priests were keeping the best offerings for themselves and giving God the scraps. I am calling their offerings "polluted bread" because they were stale, molded and contaminated. They were "blemished sacrifices" because they were ineffective, afflicted, diseased, lame and sick just like the raggedy sheep they offered up to God.

However, God rejected their offerings by sending Malachi to tell the corrupt priests, "Don't you fools know that I can see what you're doing? I CAN SEE YOU!" I just told you that Malachi was an oracle and an oracle is a person whom God speaks through. However, it wasn't Malachi, it was God who was judging the priests! God was also judging the people of Israel as well. His chosen nation of sons had progressively become a nation of bastards.

The same holds true today. You see my friend, the modern Christian has become very lazy. The modern day preacher has "changed the offering from food to paper." The simple fact is that God doesn't need your money and neither does the devil. He never has and He never will. The priests were not giving sacrifices; they were merely doing what was convenient. They did just enough to appear to obey God. This attitude is called righteous indignation.

Polluted bread is hearing a word that unquestionably came from God to build your ministry and the first thing you do is run to the bank (world system that is run by Satan that translates into DEBT and SLAVERY) to ask for a LOAN before waiting to hear how God is going to do it for you. Polluted bread is reducing the Book of Malachi to the Book of Tithing. Polluted bread is the preacher that continually pressures his congregation into giving money they are NOT REQUIRED to give by quoting Malachi 3:10. Polluted bread is creating the spirit of guilt, shame and ridicule among those not able or willing to give.

But most of all polluted bread is the man that keeps taking his family back to the "Baker" (Satan) who repeatedly sells him the stale, molded and contaminated loaves wrapped in a pretty package marked "made fresh daily" and the man still buys the polluted bread wrapped in the pretty package (deception) every single time! Selah...