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Adult Religion Class

Week 28:
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

538 B.C.: Jews return to Jerusalem from
Persia, under leadership of Zerubbabel
and Joshua/Jeshua (Ezra 14).
520518 B.C.: Haggai &
Zechariah prophesy
(Ezra 5).
515 B.C.: The Temple is
rededicated (Ezra 6).
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Five oracles with precise dates:
1:111; 1:1215a; 1:15b2:9;
2:1019; 2:2023.
29 August 520 B.C. (1:1), 21 September 520
(1:15), 17 October 520 (2:1),
18 December 520 (2:10, 18, 20).
Two chapters, 38 verses.
Haggai 1:26.
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Often quoted in the New Testament
(esp. Revelation).
Eight visions:
1:717; 1:1821; 2:15; 3:110;
4:114; 5:14; 5:511; 6:18.
Two oracles:
7:114; 8:123.
Two burdens:
9:111:17; 12:114:21.

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Zechariah 3:110.
God among His heavenly council.
Satan ( / ha-satan), the accuser
(cf. Job 12).
Joshua, a man like a burning stick
snatched from the fire (NET), justified,
dressed in clean clothes, promised
exaltation.
A type of the Messiah (Branch).
The [foundation] stone with seven eyes.
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Zechariah 9:910 (cf. Psalm 72) =
Matthew 21:19; John 12:1415.
Zechariah 11:1213 = Matthew 27:310.
Zechariah 12:910 = John 19:37.
Zechariah 13:6; 14:15 = D&C 45:4753.
Hebrew: wounds between your hands =
chest or back.
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= my messenger (a title?).
After Temple reconstruction finished in
515 B.C. 450 B.C.?
His readers questioned Gods love &
justice (1:2; 2:17). God questioned their
faithfulness (1:6; 2:8, 14; 3:8).
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Malachi 3:1: the Lords messenger
(cf. Isaiah 40:3).
Who is the messenger?
Elijah? (Malachi 4:56.)
John the Baptist? (Matthew 11:10.)
The Lords everlasting covenant? (D&C 45:9.)
Malachi 3:26: the day of the Lord.
Malachi 4:13.
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Malachi 3:812: tithing.
Communal vs. individual promise.
Malachi 4:56: the coming of Elijah.
The Passover Seder.
D&C 2:13.
Sealing keys (D&C 110:1315).
Salvation for the dead (D&C 128:18).
Sealing ordinance (D&C 132).


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Israel between the
Old and New Testaments