Exploring the Scriptures Together
Zechariah 7-8; Ezra 5:2-6:22; Daniel 6 Today Zechariah returns to a more “conventional” prophetic style. Some people come to Zechariah with a question about fasting, and the LORD responds with questions of His own: When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for Me …
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Zechariah 1-6 A contemporary of Haggai, Zechariah starts prophesying just a couple of month’s into Haggai’s recorded ministry. Like Haggai, Zechariah encourages Joshua and Zerubbabel to rebuild the Temple, but the form of Zechariah’s prophecy is radically different from Haggai’s — and much more Messianic. Zechariah’s opening statement is straightforward enough, sounding much like other …
Ezra 3:1-4:5; 4:24-5:1; Haggai 1-2 Today Ezra introduces us to two significant characters: These two men, together with other leaders, get the returning exiles off to a positive start with a focus on reestablishing worship of the LORD. The first order of business is to rebuild the Altar so that they can offer the appointed …
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Ezra 1-2 Today we jump into the book of Ezra, which picks up exactly where II Chronicles left off. In fact, most of Ezra 1:1-3 is an almost verbatim repeat of II Chronicles 36:22-23. But since we took a very unchronological “detour” through Job, perhaps it would be useful to take a quick look back …
Job 40-42 See:
Job 38-39 See:
Job 35-37 See:
Job 32-34 See:
Job 29-31 See:
Job 25-28 See: