\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Minor Prophets\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Wesley Key The Minor Prophets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[119],"tags":[1214],"class_list":["post-54275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-malachi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54211,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/lessons-in-the-minor-prophets\/","url_meta":{"origin":54275,"position":0},"title":"Lessons in the Minor Prophets","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Wesley Key 2018 Fall Meeting Series The Word of Hosea The Word of the Lord by Haggai The Vision of Nahum The Word of the Lord to Joel The Burden of Habakkuk The Burden of Malachi The Word of the Lord to Jonah","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34416,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-there-any-difference-between-the-messenger-in-malachi-3-and-elijah-the-prophet-in-malachi-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":54275,"position":1},"title":"Is there any difference between the messenger in Malachi 3 and Elijah the prophet in Malachi 4?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Is there any difference\u00a0between the messenger in Malachi 3 and Elijah the prophet in Malachi 4? 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