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Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: God’s Restored People is unavailable, but you can change that!

The ministry of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi is a record of how God deals with people he has restored as they try to translate their basic loyalty to him into practical action. Restoring their temple and the physical trappings of their ravaged kingdom was not an end in itself. God was, and is, primarily interested in obedient minds and wills in people who have a heart for God.

reference to the former division of the people. Rather Israel here stands for the people who are in covenant bond with the LORD, and whose capital, Jerusalem, was the place where he had revealed himself. Their sin is against light and privilege. Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD loves. This is presented as the substantiation of the charge. ‘The sanctuary’ is literally ‘holiness of the LORD’. This may be understood of the Temple as the holy place. The sin of pagan marriages would thus be
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