Malachi predicting Jesus seemed incomprehensible at the time - just as end of days seems incomprehensible to us

The words of the prophet Malachi predicted the arrival of Jesus and John the Baptist. We can see this in the Bible verse below.

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight - indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:1

The messenger mentioned in the verse is John the Baptist, while the Lord is Jesus Christ.

Another Old Testament prophet, Zechariah, also predicted Jesus and his piercing, which in hindsight we know happened on the cross.

And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Zechariah 12:10

At the time, without the benefit of hindsight, these words from both prophets must have seemed puzzling and confusing to those listening. Much later, these events happened. We are in the exact same situation when it comes to the end of days but those events are yet to come.

Indeed, much has already been written in the Bible about the end of days on Earth and the events that will come to pass before, during and after. You can find this in Isaiah chapters 19 and 24; Daniel chapters 7, 8 and 9; Matthew chapter 24. There is a lot of consistency about these events. 

All of that said, we each have plenty of questions when we read those parts of the Bible. Yet we are in the same position with those words of end times, just as the people of Malachi's and Zechariah's days were when they heard their predictions about Jesus. 

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