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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.

arrogant in their practical atheism, but rather those who feared the LORD talked with each other. ‘Those who feared the LORD’ are those who displayed true reverence towards him, putting their trust in him. Such fear is of the essence of the Old Testament presentation of true religion. ‘And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the
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