150 likes | 590 Views
End of Exile. Deutero-Isaiah, Trito-Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The Experience of Exile. In Jerusalem Lamentations 1:1-7 In Exile Psalm 137. Second Isaiah. The Call. Of the Prophet Isaiah 40:1-11 Of the Servant Isaiah 49:1-7 Of Cyrus Isaiah 45:1-7. Israel. And Cyrus
E N D
End of Exile Deutero-Isaiah, Trito-Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
The Experience of Exile • In Jerusalem • Lamentations 1:1-7 • In Exile • Psalm 137
The Call • Of the Prophet • Isaiah 40:1-11 • Of the Servant • Isaiah 49:1-7 • Of Cyrus • Isaiah 45:1-7
Israel • And Cyrus • Isaiah 41:2-10 • And the Nations • Isaiah 49:1-7
Servant of the Lord • Poems and individual verses • Isaiah 42:1-9 • Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 • Identifications of servant(s) • Israel • Messiah • Cyrus • Prophet
What is this? • Last portion of Isaiah’s prophecy? • Second Isaiah’s later messages, upon his move to Judah? • The message of an individual prophet in Palestine during Persian rule? • Several different prophetic messages from different prophets? • ???
Significant Themes • Place for foreigners • Isaiah 56:1-8 • Contrast some Ezra-Nehemiah • Downgrading of temple and cult • Isaiah 66:1-4 • Contrast Chronicles and Malachi • True fasting • Isaiah 58:1-12
Time of Return • Sheshbazzar, Jeshua, and Zerubbabel • Ezra and 1 Esdras • Haggai’s message • Build the temple [1:1-6] • Zerubbabel as ring [2:20-23]
Book of Zechariah • Zechariah the Prophet • Zechariah 1 - 8 • Deutero-Zechariah • Zechariah 9-14 • Book of the Twelve ends with anonymous prophecies, including Malachi
Significant Passages • Jeshua and Zerubbabel • Zechariah 3:1 – 4:10a • Zechariah 6:9-14 • Place of the nations • Zechariah 2:6-12 • Fasts and justice • Zechariah 7:1-7 ; 8:18-23
My Messenger • Who is Malachi? • Malachi 1:1; 3:1 • Dissatisfaction • Lack of justice and faithfulness [2:13-17] • Liturgical sloppiness [1:6-14; 2:4-9] • God’s promised provisions • Messenger of the covenant [3:1-4] • Burning day / Elijah [4:1-6 (3:19-24)}