Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story

of redemption, and we want to spend five minutes every day, journeying through

the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey everybody and welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name

is Crystal, and in today's episode, we will be discussing the minor prophets. In our last

bonus episode, Kristen talked all about dreams and visions in the prophets, and so if you haven't

listened to that, go check it out. So she technically covered Hosea in her episode, but I'm going

to overlap as we be covering the minor prophets. If someone were to ask you what the minor

prophets were all about, what would you say? Sure, we just read them in rapid succession, so we

have the details, but sometimes we are still left with a lot of questions. It can feel like a lot

to keep up with. The writings of the minor prophets were recorded over a few hundred years, and they

prophesied generally during the times of kings and chronicles, so it could be helpful to place the

prophet within its historical context when possible. Study Bibles and even resources like the Bible

Handbook from the Daily Grace Co will give you all of that information. So let's chat about some

important things for us to remember anytime we are reading one of the prophets. In order for us to

do that, we need to go all the way back to Genesis. Yes, all the way back. In Genesis 12 verse 2,

God tells Abram, I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name

great and you will be a blessing. And he says in verse 3, that all the nations will be blessed

through Abram. God intends to use Abram and his descendants, the people of Israel, to be a blessing

to other nations. Israel is to reflect God to the people around them. But as you've read, the people

of God have failed to live up to the standards that God has set for them. So with that context,

let's talk about some things that are going to help us to better understand the prophets.

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