Just like news stations interrupt regular programming to bring you special alerts, Malachi disrupts our ways of living so we may hear God clearly. In Malachi's time, God's chosen people still live in the unfaithful ways of their ancestors. They question God's love, despise and defile his temple, pursue unfaithfulness, question justice, neglect proper worship, and remain cynical about wholly serving God. Because we are prone to wander, we must remember God's faithful love, the seriousness of sin, and our future hope.