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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Haggai.
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- Not much is known about the prophet Haggai, but what we do know is that he was the first of the prophets who would prophesy after the exile.
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- So, in other words, there was 70 years of captivity where Israel was taken into Babylon and then they returned.
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- So much of this is about the return afterwards. So there's four messages that we end up seeing in Haggai.
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- The first is a judgment call to rebuild the temple. After that, we see the second message is the promise of a future glory of the temple.
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- The third message that we end up seeing is a priestly decision to illustrate the present blessings of obedience.
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- And then it leads to a fourth message, which is a masonic prophecy concerning Zerubbabel.
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- And what you end up seeing throughout this book is that this is a book that is giving hope to Israel, a nation that is returning to the promised land after 70 years of captivity.
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- They are obviously concerned about where they're going to have as a nation, and Cyrus the
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- Persian king had prophesied that, as prophesied in the Old Testament, would give them back their land.
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- And this is the fulfillment of that promise. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry.
