Bonus 42: The Twelve Minor Prophets VII: Malachi and Joel

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Malachi writes in Persian times. The rebuilt Temple has not ushered in an ideal age, the governors of Yehuda are not Davidic, and the priests and people have lost their watchfulness about God’s coming. Malachi attacks this malaise. The priests are corrupt. The people are unfaithful. All must repent.

Joel writes of locusts and famine. An ecological catastrophe is divine retribution for apostasy. He exhorts the people of Judah to repent, fast, and pray to avert these calamities.

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0:00.0	Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.
0:09.9	And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:15.3	In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they were sent
0:23.9	spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history, about all of the books
0:31.6	beyond the Bible. I'm joined by Steve Guerrawera as we continue our series on the 12 minor Old Testament prophets.
0:46.3	This time, Malachi and Jal.
0:51.2	Malachi was traditionally held to be the last written book of the Old Testament.
0:56.8	Well, that's rubbish.
0:58.5	Daniel is, obviously.
1:01.5	Malachi writes in Persian time,
1:04.3	a generation or two after Zereban,
1:07.4	and Joshua the high priest rebuilt the temple.
1:14.1	Say the year 450 BCE.
1:22.4	The rebuilt temple has not ushered in an ideal age. The governors of Yehuda are not Davidic and the priests and people have lost their watchfulness about God's coming.
1:30.9	Malachi attacks this Malay.
1:34.1	The priests are corrupt.
1:36.4	The people are unfaithful.
1:39.1	All must repent.
1:42.0	The prophet Joel is undaithable.
1:46.0	It is not set in any particular era of Israel's past and has no datable events.
1:53.3	It floats unanchored in time.
1:56.3	Which is why we have placed him in our last episode of this mini-series.
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