What other Scriptures highlight God as Father and Creator of all? God’s Paternal Heart in Malachi 2:10 “Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?” (Malachi 2:10) Creation’s Opening Statement: Genesis • “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) • “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness…’ … “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:26-27) The Song of Moses and the Prophets • “Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father, your Creator, who formed you and established you?” (Deuteronomy 32:6) • “But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we are all the work of Your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8) • “It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.” (Isaiah 45:12) • “Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: ‘I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by Myself.’” (Isaiah 44:24) The Psalms and Wisdom Writings • “Know that the LORD is God. It is He who has made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.” (Psalm 100:3) • “O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.” (Psalm 95:6) • “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” (Job 33:4) New Testament Echoes • “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth… ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’” (Acts 17:24, 28) • “Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.” (1 Corinthians 8:6) • “one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” (Ephesians 4:6) • “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights… Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth.” (James 1:17-18) • “How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!” (Hebrews 12:9) • “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and came to be.” (Revelation 4:11) Drawing the Threads Together From Genesis to Revelation, the testimony is seamless: one God, our Father, brought everything into being and personally fashioned humanity. Malachi’s call to covenant faithfulness rests on this truth—because we share one Father and one Creator, we are bound to honor Him and to treat one another with the loyalty and love that reflect His heart. |
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