The book of Genesis depicts God as creating through speech (Genesis 1:1-31); a God that does not speak is a God that does not create. ... In the book of Malachi, the final book of the Old Testament, Malachi foretells a day of judgment, a day "burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day ... will leave them neither root nor branch " (Malachi 4:1). ... The book of Malachi "and the Old Testament itself "ends like this: Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. ... There is a growing body of evide...

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