Malachi

As the people of exile settled the Promised Land God did not give them milk and honey. So they asked God these questions:
1. How have you shown your love for us? (1:2)
2. How have we despised you. (1:6)
3. How have we failed to respect you? (1:7)
4. Why don't you accept our sacrifices? (1:13)
5. Don't we all have the same father? Didn't the same God create us all? (2:10)
6. Why do we break our promises to one another?
Why do we despise the covenant that God made with our ancestors?
7. Why don't you accept our sacrifices? (2:14)
8. How have we tired God? (2:17)
9. What must we do to turn back to God? (3:7)
10. How are we cheating God?  (3:8)
11. What terrible things have we said about God?(3:13)
12. What is to gain by showing God we are sorry?(3:14)
The church in America  might need to ask God those same questions. And we need to listen to his answers.
Stuart