Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and as many of you know I live in the beautiful Black Hills of

Western South Dakota. It's sort of the

first wave of the Rocky Mountain formation that makes up so much of the Intermountain

West is just gorgeous and there's tons of interesting history here this is the legit

Wild West stage coach robberies gold rushes brothels shootouts cow and Indians, all the things that you associate with

this part of the world and the legends that go with it.

It all happened here.

So as a result, tons of very interesting movers and shakers throughout history in the late 19th and early 20th century

stopped by here to seek their fortune or see what they could glean from it

and what that means is as you drive around the black hills now it seems like means is as you drive around the Black Hills now,

it seems like every little building has a plaque or something

that's like, on this spot, on this date,

future president Teddy Roosevelt

stopped by for a sandwich at a cafe that used to stand right where that porta potty is now.

And so the formula of all of these different places claim to fame around the Black Hills is someone very important, plus an interesting incident that happened

equals this is really significant. Likewise in the book of Hagi we get the

impression that the second temple though it's not as impressive

in edifice in its original form as Solomon's temple, the first one.

Still, Hagai is saying, this one is going to be even more glorious, Something even more amazing is going to happen here.

And the formula ends up playing out to be Jesus of Nazareth, God in the flesh,

plus the culminating events of the story of the Gospels that happen in, around, and in the shadows of the temple

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