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Next up, you add Haggai, and they have a very specific, in particular context, which is fascinating.

Yeah, so Haggai, you know, he's actually buddies with Zachariah, right?

He appears kind of in tandem in the book of Ezra with Zachariah

and uses the same dating formula, appears to be from the same context.

Haggai appears to be from the same context. Haggai appears to be in the context that the people have returned from Babylon,

so we're sometime into the Persian period, and something that you can kind of catch

if you read between the lines in the book of the 12 and in the other parts of the Bible, but it can be confirmed by geologists. There was actually a pretty significant famine going on in Yehoud during this time, Yehoud being the Persian province of Judah. And so it was a rough time for the people.

And so I kind of sometimes have a little bit of sympathy for the people whom Haggai is

calling out because they've come back to the hood, this tiny little province.

They're experiencing drought, famine, and Haggai is getting on to them for not rebuilding the temple.

So, but apparently the prophecy of both Haggai and Zechariah really gets people to motivate it because they commence again in the temple.

Now, Haggai and Zechariah form a pair, really, as you say, because they're writing the same time.

Yes.

But you rated Zechariah much higher than Hager's baby.

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