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with your host emma daughter thanks for joining in today's bonus episode we're talking all about

the post-exylic prophets when i say post-exylic i'm referring to all of the prophets who came after

israel's return back home to Israel, their land.

Now, you may have noticed that we're not reading these prophets in our reading plan this year.

We're skipping them. We're only reading the books that move the story forward, or said differently,

the historical narrative books. That said, here's what we would be learning were we to read

the post-exilic prophets.

But to set the scene, we've seen the first wave of Israelites return home under Zeruvra.

We read about this in the book of Ezra.

Next, we get the book of Esther, in which we see Esther advocate for the Jews as to prevent them from being annihilated.

Third, we encounter the book of Nehemiah in which we see a third wave of Israelites return home to their land. At this point in the

story, we know that most of the Israelites have returned home, they've returned to the law,

and the temple and the walls surrounding the city have been rebuilt.

Only this time, they weren't quite as glorious as they were initially.

Now, to set the scene prophetically, we've got to think about the prophets that came before

the post-exelic ones. The pre-exylic prophets were told the coming judgment of Israel,

the Assyrians, the Babylonians,

they were going to rise up and conquer the Israelites if they didn't repent from their sin,

which newsflash, they didn't repent. And these consequences came upon them. That's why they went

into exile. But additionally, the pre-exilic prophets also foretold the coming of Christ that one day, despite the consequences God's people were to face, a ruler would come and usher in a new era.

For example, Amos 9-11 reads, and that day I will restore the fallen house of David.

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