End of Exile

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End of Exile

• Deutero-Isaiah, Trito-Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah,
  and Malachi

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The Experience of Exile

• In Jerusalem
• Lamentations 11-7
• In Exile
• Psalm 137

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Second Isaiah
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The Call

• Of the Prophet
• Isaiah 401-11
• Of the Servant
• Isaiah 491-7
• Of Cyrus
• Isaiah 451-7

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Israel

• And Cyrus
• Isaiah 412-10
• And the Nations
• Isaiah 491-7

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Servant of the Lord

• Poems and individual verses
• Isaiah 421-9
• Isaiah 5213 5312
• Identifications of servant(s)
• Israel
• Messiah
• Cyrus
• Prophet

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Third Isaiah
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What is this?

• Last portion of Isaiahs prophecy?
• Second Isaiahs later messages, upon his move to
  Judah?
• The message of an individual prophet in Palestine
  during Persian rule?
• Several different prophetic messages from
  different prophets?
• ???

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Significant Themes

• Place for foreigners
• Isaiah 561-8
• Contrast some Ezra-Nehemiah
• Downgrading of temple and cult
• Isaiah 661-4
• Contrast Chronicles and Malachi
• True fasting
• Isaiah 581-12

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Haggai and Zechariah
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Time of Return

• Sheshbazzar, Jeshua, and Zerubbabel
• Ezra and 1 Esdras
• Haggais message
• Build the temple 11-6
• Zerubbabel as ring 220-23

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Book of Zechariah

• Zechariah the Prophet
• Zechariah 1 - 8
• Deutero-Zechariah
• Zechariah 9-14
• Book of the Twelve ends with anonymous
  prophecies, including Malachi

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Significant Passages

• Jeshua and Zerubbabel
• Zechariah 31 410a
• Zechariah 69-14
• Place of the nations
• Zechariah 26-12
• Fasts and justice
• Zechariah 71-7 818-23

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Malachi
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My Messenger

• Who is Malachi?
• Malachi 11 31
• Dissatisfaction
• Lack of justice and faithfulness 213-17
• Liturgical sloppiness 16-14 24-9
• Gods promised provisions
• Messenger of the covenant 31-4
• Burning day / Elijah 41-6 (319-24)