A very Important Prophet from the Holy Scriptures. A Must Study!
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00:00Hey, shalom brothers and sisters. Welcome back. I thank you again for joining me today today. I want to do a introduction to a
00:07Book in the Bible a minor province a guy
00:10I want to
00:12Do it because I just want to educate people people's pie, you know
00:16You probably studied passages in the book and stuff like that
00:20But this is a background of the book who wrote it may be close to the car
00:24You know composition dates stuff like that the circumstances behind this
00:28Now I'm just gonna give it a go right here, so here we go says here the composition date a
00:35guy prophesized within a four-month period in
00:39520 BCE before the Common Era
00:42he was the first prophet to prophecy after the
00:46Babylonian captivity now the author here says this book was written by that prophet whose name means my feast
00:55some
00:56Proposed that his name reflects his being born on one of the great
01:02Pilgrimages or one of the feasts maybe like the Feast on Leavened Bread or the Feast of Weeks, which is Pentecost or
01:09Feast of Tabernacles
01:11the background here is
01:13This book is the tenth of the twelve minor prophets
01:17But Meyer doesn't mean the message
01:21Mean the message, but the shorter lengths of the prophecies. It's a short book. It's like what to
01:28Think it's like two. Yeah, two chapters. That's all the background here is this book is the yeah the 10th
01:38After King Cyrus of Persia defeated Babylon he issued a decree and
01:44538 BCE releasing the Jews from bondage, you know bondage and
01:49Allowing them to return to their ancestral homeland of Israel
01:54this group was led by Zerubbiel the governor of
01:58Judah and Joshua which in Hebrew, that's Yeshua. That's he was a high priest
02:04The first wave had about 50,000 people going back upon returning to Jerusalem. They began work on the temple
02:12Soon after the completion of the foundation which took about two years
02:17Israel's neighbors including the Samaritans were wary about the resurgence of a Jewish state as
02:25Result, they opposed the building of the temple and halted progress for about 15 years
02:31Consequently the people of Judah became complacent and self-absorbed with their own homes to neglect the temple
02:39a
02:40guy spoke out against this
02:43This
02:46Not neglect and
02:48Encourage them to continue temple work and not to forget about Yahweh's house. That's in chapter 1 verse 2
02:57Now the scriptural significance here is says here
03:01The message of a guy can be summarized in one word
03:06Priority we give priority either to Yahweh or Heavenly Father or to our own selfish
03:12Selfish desires and pleasures
03:14The Messiah in Matthew chapter 6 verse 24 stated that we cannot serve both
03:21Yahweh and mammon, which is wealth
03:25Personified as a result every believer must make a choice as to whom to serve
03:33Judah chose their own temporal homes meaning their own interests in lieu of Yahweh's temple and proper worship
03:41Yahweh requires complete devotion to the true believer
03:45He and his worship must come first must always come first a lot of people people are like that
03:52They don't they they neglect Yahweh they neglect
03:56The righteousness stuff like that and they go for their own pleasures if it's sports money wealth
04:03If they want to look good for their neighbors out do their neighbors all kinds of things
04:08But we can't cannot forget about Yahweh
04:11We cannot forget about the sovereign our Creator the one who gave us life and breath things like that
04:18but that's pretty much what this books about and
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