Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Haggai.

When you turn the page, you're reading straight through the Bible from Zef and I to Haggai.

There is a mountain of change that occurs.

And in order to understand where we are now and get oriented and wrap our heads around

what Haggai is talking about, we're going to have to lay a little bit of groundwork here.

All of these Old Testament prophets we've been reading up to this point are largely set

in one of two eras, that is the mid-700s BC, right at the end of the northern kingdom

of Israel and all those prophets charge the northern kingdom with evil and corruption

and wicked leadership and economic injustice and they all anticipate a Syria coming along

and conquering the northern kingdom, which happened under Sargon II in 722 BC.

Then there's another flurry of Old Testament prophecy we've been looking at that is directed

largely at the remaining southern kingdom of Judah that makes the same charges in the

late 600s BC about corruption and evil and economic injustice.

But these prophets are pointing toward this dark gathering storm on the horizon that

is Babylon and they correctly anticipate the destruction of the southern kingdom and

the temple where God lives in 586 BC by Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonians.

But then we turn the page over to Haggai and everything looks different for starters.

This is the layout of the text looks different.

It's going to look in your Bible more like the block formatting of Genesis or Exodus,

like narrative, the way it's presented, whereas all of the prophets we've been looking

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