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Come follow me insights today, Haggai and Zechariah.

So as we jump into these two books, let's orient very quickly on the timeline.

We're in the second year of King Darius, and Babylon

carried Judah captive roughly, nearly 70 years before Haggai and Zechariah come along.

And so we're going to get in Haggai multiple

time stamps, which is, it's really helpful. You'll notice they're not using a Gregorian calendar.

Just make sure that you understand that. So when he opens chapter 1 verse 1 by saying, in the second year of Darius, the king,

in the 6th month, we're not talking June. We're talking the 6th month of their calendar

system. So I'll just put 6-1. In the 6th month, in the first day of the month, modern biblical scholars can go back

and do the math on this and figure out that it's roughly in what we would call today the month

of August. But you've got the sixth month. Then you have in chapter 1, verse 15, you have the 24th day of that same month.

So it's, you know, three and a half weeks later. Then you get chapter 2, verse 1 that opens up

on the 20th day of their seventh month, and then verse 10 puts you over on the ninth month,

the 24th day. So the reason I'm making a big deal of this is because there's a lot

that's going to happen within three months and a few weeks. There's a lot

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