The Messenger and His Message: Haggai
Haggai's messages were addressed to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the high priest, clearly proving that the prophet was sent to the remnant of the Jews that returned to Jerusalem in the days of Cyrus, king of Persia,...
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Edom’s Doom: Obediah
How vividly Sir George Adam Smith describes Edom in The Book of the Twelve Prophets. The purple mountains, into which the wild sons of Esau clambered, run out from Syria upon the desert, some hundred miles by twenty of porphyry and...
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Hosea’s Days and Ours
Idolatry and wickedness were rampant in Bethel and in Gilgal, the centers of Israel's worship in the days of Hosea. Those two places of hallowed memories were now places of Ephraim's apostasy from God. Bethel--the house of God--the prophet now...
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Messiah is the Answer: Zephaniah
"I will utterly consume all things from off the land" (1:2). Man had become obnoxious in the sight of God, polluting the land with his idolatry and violence, defiling the whole creation. There was nothing but for him to disappear under...
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The Prophet of Glory: Zechariah
The name Zechariah means Jehovah remembers. The prophet by that name was born in Babylon in the captivity, for when he returned to the land of his fathers he was but a child. Like some other prophets, he was a...
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God vs. Social Justice: Amos
The prophecies by Amos were given in the reigns of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam II, king of Israel. He describes himself as a herdman of Tekoa, a town in the hill country of Judea, about twelve miles from...
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Prophet of Messiah’s Coming: Micah
The book of Micah is composed of three chief divisions, ushered in by a call to listen, "Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein" (1:2); "And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye...
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The Book of Faith’s Problems: Habakkuk
Habakkuk has been called "the doubting Thomas of the Old Testament," "the grandfather of the Reformation," "the prophet of faith," and "the free-thinker among the prophets." Had they known each other, there is no question but what Habakkuk and Job...
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The Mercy of God Justified: Jonah
In his national prejudice against the Assyrian and in the pride that resented the cancellation of his prediction, Jonah objected to the grace of God to that city. What a sad and forcible reminder of the fact that the only...
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