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 Welcome! Its the last week of the old testament! We survived! If you have read my past posts on the old testament, you know there is still lots of great learning to gain, so feel free to post comments as they come, whether this year or in the future Malachi Malachi is very fitting to end the Old Testament with; he gives almost a summary of events past present and future Ch 1 and ch 2 he talks of the broken covenant of the house of Israel, the ministry going to the gentiles, and some of the consequences of this Ch 3 he talks of of the coming of Christ, the steps that will be required to regain the covenant, and the promise due those to successfully obtain it Ch 4 he talks of the final redeeming day of the millenium, the coming of elijah, and the final redeeming work of the dead before the redemption of the earth. So end the last words of the last prophet among the Jewish nation, sealing the work of the old testament as the Jewish people fall into a 400 year period of prophetic dark...

 Welcome! Temple time! Haggai and Zechariah are about temples. There are very few christian denominations that have temple-like spaces and rituals, and only 1 that I know of, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which also have formalized temple rituals as part of that temple. The argument that many christians have against a temple is something along the lines of 'since Christ came in the flesh, we have no more need of temples, which is a great theory and seems plausible at first but material evidence and divine revelation both contradict this notion. Here in these chapters, God describes a specific temple to be built in the last days, including rooms and dimensions. So obviously He cares about temples post-risen-Messiah. Adding to that, multiple scholars have identified the forty days of Christ's ministry on the earth as the teaching of the 'mysteries of the kingdom' which in greek refer to the passing of certain knowledge through symbols etc. There is also...

 Welcome! Nahum Nineveh being destroyed is a type of the last days Habakkuk Habakkuk's discussion is on why bad people are allowed to prosper against the enemies. The short of it is God says its a bad deal all around. The long of it is actually quite profound. Zephaniah Zephaniah is a mind preparation for the second coming