Welcome to the Book of Mormon Central. Come Follow Me podcast with your host, Lynn Wilson, and John Cho.

Hello, so nice to be with you again. Welcome to the last couple of years, decades of the minor prophets.

Yeah. So we're covering Haggai and Zachariah. We're 100 years after our Nehom and Habakkuk and Zephaniah.

So let's start with our three questions.

How does this bring me closer to Christ?

How does the Book of Mormon help me understand the Old Testament?

And how does this help me live a more Christ-like life?

Fortunately, Zechariah is filled with a lot of messianic prophecies.

You know, I've tried to find a messianic prophecy in each of the minor prophets.

You know, we had Micah testifying of the birth being in Bethlehem and a lot of them talking about our

savior taking on our sins. But Haggai refers a lot to the temple. And I'm wondering if I can see the Savior in the temple.

But as we go through Haggai, let's keep your ears open for any types of Christ.

I mentioned that we're about 100 years later. These are chronologically arranged and generally speaking.

And Haggai's main message is the, a few people from Babylon have come back to Jerusalem.

And many of them are Jews.

Many of them are from the tribe of Levi, the Aaron, priest, and the temple.

But other tribes have also come back.

We have evidence of Asher and Benjamin that came back as well. And not very many came back. They think about 50,000 returned. And that's only about one sixth that were taken. So they think a lot of other children of Israel are spread across the diaspora

or else chose to stay there. And we know Esther and her family, Mordecai, chose to stay there.

Obviously, Daniel is still there at this time period. And we are at the same period where

Ezra and Nehemiah are writing. And so just as a review of history for

the timeline, those three deportations from Jerusalem over to Babylon started in about 606,

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