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The post-exilic prophetic books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi are set in times of great adversity. God’s people are minnows in the vast Persian Empire, and the promises of the earlier prophets for a glorious restoration of Jerusalem seem far from their experience. These books, from beginning to end, restate God’s intention to establish his glorious kingdom, and explain what this means for the...

abundance. The fact that (1) the priesthood serves as a sign of the coming Shoot and (2) the close connection between the coming of Shoot and the removal of the iniquity of the land suggest that Shoot may have a priestly function when he comes (cf. 6:13). Christians know the single day Zechariah foresaw—the day when the Messiah (‘Shoot’) Jesus was hung up on a cross outside Jerusalem, suffering the judgment of God and taking sin on himself. As the great high priest he offered the superior sacrifice,
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