Was it the best of times or the worst of times? It was hard to tell. But this we do know, it was a spiritually dead time for the people of God before and during the first century A.D. After God's people returned from the exile in 538 BC, the Word of God was powerfully proclaimed and upheld by Ezra and “The Great Men of the Synagogue.”
But soon the zeal that God's people had for the Lord faded. By 444 BC, God was exhorting His people again on account of their spiritual lethargy. They had become bored with the things of the Lord. Speaking of His worship God said this:
Malachi 1:12-13a, “But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it!”
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