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Synopses
Malachi means 'my messenger'; the message (dated around 450 BCE at a time when disillusionment and an increasingly casual attitude to worship had set in), concerns God's claims on his people.
1. Doing homage and giving honour and respect, especially to God. Acts of devotion. Human response to the perceived presence of the divine.
2. The part of the Christian liturgy usually consisting of sung material and prayers of thanksgiving.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.