Minor prophet number 10! The author of Haggai was writing into a different setting to all the other prophets so far, which makes his message different too. Although many prophets warned that there would be a distaster, an exile, they also wrote in hope that God would bring the people back home again. This is [...]
Another minor prophet, and this time it's Zephaniah. Zephaniah speaks of some scaty sounding justice and spme particularly beautiful hope. Unlike most of the minor prophets, though, I have a real fondness for this book.. I wrote about my children a lot, but I don't share all that much about Nathan nowadays. But this book [...]
Habakkuk is a cool name, don't you think? It feels interesting in the mouth, and apparently in Hebrew it means 'to embrace' or 'to wrestle'. Now initially they seemed like to very different things to me, but actually I suspect there is a fine line between one and the other! Anyway, Habakkuk is an unusual [...]
Remember Jonah getting grumpy that God was willing to save the city of Ninevah when they changed their ways? Here is somebody else's take on Ninevah, Nahum. It's not a very happy book, but then most prophecies aren't, as we are learning! My Ninevah was the capital of the Assyrian Empire and they were particularly [...]
