The Malachi-mandate
1. The Malachi Mandate is the turning of the hearts of the fathers to the sons and sons to their fathers. God reveals Himself as Abba; this is just not a stoic term for father, but Daddy. And He calls us sons and daughters; He calls us into being a family. When we act like a family, we are displaying our relationship the way God intended. He’s looking for a place of safety and grace.
2. What is the Malachi Mandate? “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts. “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
3 Malachi 4 (The English Standard Version) This is not optional, it’s a must to stay the curse (lest I come and…). Ps. 133 says how beautiful is it when brothers and sisters dwell in unity; it commands a blessing. He’s doing it! We’re seeing; in an evil and depraved generation where sons and fathers are at odds, God is releasing the spirit of Elijah that will turn the hearts of the sons and fathers to each other. God is desiring a generation where mothers/fathers and sons/daughters know who they are and their hearts are turned to one another in love and honor. God has long been a God of generations working together and telling of His works in the kingdom. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. Psalm 78:5-7
*****We need our fathers to come back underneath the family and hold them up, bringing security to women and children (the vulnerable ones
The word Abba (father) - means source, sustainer, nourishing, foundation
To be a father you have to be the source of something,
God is a true Father because he does not just produce, he sustains,
God is a man’s Source and man is God’s resource.
Men are a reflection of the Kingdom on earth.
When God created Adam, God gave the male all the instructions, THEN he created the female, He did not go to the soil to create the woman,
He went into the male and created a being that had a womb/ we are called WOMB-Man,
