Welcome back to the Bible blog series. There were 300 years between Malachai and Matthew, so I've enjoyed a short break from posting. However, as I have finished Revelation (the last book of the Bible), I thought I'd better get cracking again! So welcome to Matthew, the first of the four books which write about [...]
Here we are at the last book of the Old Testament! Truth be told, I'm currently reading Romans, I'm just way behind on the blogging! Anyway, Malachi was around a bit later than Haggai and Zechariah, who were writing as the Israelites returned from their exile to Babylon. Haggai and Zechariah were encouraging the temple [...]
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 [...]
Rev Poppy 