HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH, MALACHI

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HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH, MALACHI
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HAGGAI

• Author Haggai, post-exilic prophet.
• Date 4-month period in 520 BC.
• Contains 4 oracles encouraging Gods people to
  rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem
• Theme Message
• Gods people must rebuild the Temple as center of
  worship
• Current hardships come from failure to do this
• Glorious future for Zerubbabel (Davids line)

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ZECHARIAH

• Author
• Zechariah from Jerusalem
• Date
• between 520 mid 400s (c.500?)
• Literary Note highly symbolic nature of the
  night visions
• Theme Message
• Joshua, Zerubbabel, and building of Temple
• Fasting and Gods future plans
• Judgment of nations and Day of the Lord

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MALACHI

• Author Malachi
• Date
• Perhaps 460 (just before reforms of Ezra and
  Nehemiah
• Theme Message
• God is a covenant-keeping God
• God hates apathy, moral and religious decline
• God will judge his people in justice
• Coming of Messiah/Elijah figure