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This still doesn't seem to make any references that tie the scriptures you have provided to the writings in Malachi.

As a matter of fact your own references send them to another book.

Please correct me if I am wrong... but the only word that I see that would tie these writings to the writings of Malachi is the term messenger.

Note below...

Originally Posted by Berkeley

Matthew 3
1In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
2And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

The prophecy that Matthew is speaking of was the prophecy of Isaiah.

Matthew 3
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Also in the quote above there is a term fire used but to tie this to Malachi would be a speculation at best.

Let me demonstrate how positive the quotations are oftentimes when the apostles are speaking of an OT prophecy.

Below are the writings of Jeremiah

Jer 31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

This is a recollection of this prophecy in Hebrews.

Hbr 10:15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Hbr 8:10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hbr 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Hbr 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Because of this clear recollection of an OT prophecy I can then, with good confidence, apply these scriptures in Jeremiah to the experience of NT salvation.

I have heard these scriptures in Malachi being applied to endtime events all my life and in my study today it appears that there is not clear calling of these scriptures in that frame of reference by the apostles.

Intersting...