Today is the 21st day of December.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian.

It's great. It's great to be here with you today.

How are you?

While we're like about to go into Christmas week, so it's like busy, I'm sure, as it is for all of us.

I'm glad that we have this time.

I'm glad that there is some oasis in all of it

and the different chaos that life can bring

and different disruptions that different seasons bring to us.

It is awesome to be here together with you today as we gather again and take

another step forward. And we're kind of getting down there to it. We're moving into

some new territory, which shouldn't come as a surprise.

We're like mostly reading a book a day.

We're going to begin the 11th of the 12 minor prophets in the Old Testament today.

But we're not going to finish it, believe it or not.

Actually, we're moving into the book of Zechariah, and Zechariah is going to take us right up

to the last two days of the year together, so we're going to stay here for a minute.

Zechariah, this book that we're about to read,

and Haggiyai, one of the other minor prophets,

were contemporaries.

Those Zechariah continued long after Haggai did.

And they were prophesying at the same place

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