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After the Babylonian captivity, God’s people were often more concerned about their own affairs than God’s. So God sent Haggai and Zechariah to urge his people to rebuild the temple. Malachi threatened God’s judgment upon the people for their neglect of the Lord and his Word, but the prophet ended with the wonderful promise of the coming Messiah.

Six centuries before Christ, Babylon was the whip God used to chastise his people. But Babylon’s time for punishment came. Their slaves plundered them. God’s people remained the apple of his eye. Notice that in verse 8 this remark is a parenthetical remark made by the angel. The angel, who is by his commission a ministering spirit to God’s people, knew the special and unique position of God’s people. They were like the pupil, the gateway, to his eye. They were special to him. He saw them. No one
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