Reading through the book of Haggai, we discovered a prophet who encouraged the Successor of David and the Successor of Zadoc the priest to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, when the Jews had arrived in Juda from exile in Babylon at the end of the sixth century BC, and had done their best to secureContinue reading “Reading through the Book of Ezra (aka. Esdras I)”
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Reading through the prophecy of Haggai (aka. Aggaeus)
Anybody following these posts is familiar with the historical fact of the calamity that struck Jerusalem in 587 BC, when after several sieges the Holy City fell at last to the Chaldean hordes arriving from Babylon in Mesopotamia, and was utterly destroyed. The prophet Jeremiah, still alive as the City was levelled to the ground,Continue reading “Reading through the prophecy of Haggai (aka. Aggaeus)”
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