The days of Haggai and Zechariah have passed; their messages of repentance and encouragement of hope in the coming of the Messiah have grown callous in the eyes of Israel. Malachi, one of the final prophets of the Old Testament continues to speak to the people to try and ignite their passion for God and […]
Month: March 2015
Continued Encouragment and Instruction.
Zechariah’s task, his calling was to continue building on the message Haggai had started, giving direction to the continued building of the temple and instruction of obedience in following God. God used Zechariah to provide the people with a better understanding of how they were to respond to His faithfulness in bringing them to this […]
A New Message
Haggai represents the beginning of what I believe is a change of speech/message towards the people of God who have now arrived at their final destination. We can begin to read Haggai in a new light, Gods calling on Haggai is to encourage the people to live obediently and begin rebuilding the temple, this in […]
Judgment, Repentance and Hope
Reflection on the book of Zephaniah as a whole. Continuing to work through the Minor Prophets I feel like I am always writing about the same things; judgment, a call for repentance and a promise of hope for the remnant of God’s people. This seems to be a forgotten message over and over again as […]
A Persistent Faith…
Reflections founded on the book of Habakkuk as a whole. I can’t quite put my finger the how and why, but as I read through Habakkuk I feel like I have connected at some level with the experiences of Habakkuk more so than the other prophets. It may be that my recent involvements through the […]
150 Years Later…
Have you ever have to redo a job that someone else already did, pickup the pieces and start from the beginning? I wonder if that’s what Nahum was thinking when God called him to prophecy judgment on Nineveh. Approximately 150 years earlier in Nahum’s day and about a month ago I wrote of Jonah who […]