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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Today we finished our 33rd book of the Bible, and in the next 11 days we'll be finishing |
0:18.4 | six more books and the whole Old Testament. |
0:21.7 | We first met the minor prophet Haggai yesterday in Ezra 5 where he was standing around the |
0:25.9 | construction site of the deconstructed temple with his buddy Zachariah, another minor prophet. |
0:31.2 | They were there encouraging the returned exiles of Judah. |
0:34.3 | Today we find out exactly what it was he said to encourage them, and we might even find |
0:38.3 | out the exact day he said it. |
0:40.6 | Scholars believe it was August 29th, 520 BC. |
0:44.9 | After the exiles returned from Babylon, their first high priest is a guy named Joshua, |
0:49.3 | but in today's reading it's spelled like Joshua. |
0:51.9 | He'll keep calling him Joshua since that's how he met him, and since we're already friends |
0:56.0 | with another Joshua. |
0:57.9 | Today Haggai has a conversation with Joshua the high priest and Zerubabal, who is the |
1:02.2 | local ruler over the people of Judah, and he confronts them both about the misplaced |
1:06.7 | priorities of the people. |
1:08.6 | Haggai says, look, I know you all want to put shipwrap in your houses, it's apparently |
1:12.6 | a thing now, but we've got more important walls to panel. |
1:15.7 | No matter what you do to your homes and your wardrobes and your lifestyles, it will never |
1:20.0 | be enough. |
1:21.0 | You'll always want more. |
1:22.6 | Stop scrolling Instagram and Amazon long enough to face that reality. |
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