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Elizabeth Achtemeier examines the often-neglected Minor Prophets and explains them as they reflect the church at worship and at work. She sets the Minor Prophets in their canonical context emphasizing the relationship between the message of these prophets and the New Testament. Unique in the use of brief quotations from great preachers’ sermons on the prophets, Nahum–Malachi is enriched with the...

are imminent (e.g., Isa. 10:25; Amos 8:3) or distantly future (e.g. Isa. 29:17–18; 2:11) or even in the past (e.g. Isa. 63:18; 22:8). Haggai refers not so much to the shortness of the interval as to the vastness of the powers involved (Macgregor). God moves on toward the future, and those who love God know that they are always within a step of undreamed-of changes. They have seen so much of God’s working in the past: a word transforming a life, his power tumbling empires. Christians have even seen
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