Haggai (Video) Teaching by Tom Bradford

There is no way to properly discuss the Book of Haggai unless we first understand the historical background of the times, and to recognize the context that the Books of Haggai and Zechariah are completely tied together such that where Haggai ends, Zechariah begins both chronologically and historically. In fact, the connection is so close that some Bible scholars have surmised either a direct collaboration between the writers of Haggai and Zechariah, or even that both were written by the same person only under two different names. I really can’t comment on that or support any alternative theory because regardless of what any scholar might conclude, it is always mostly speculation and not fact. Therefore, my position is that no evidence of any concrete nature exists than to recognize the book authors as 2 legitimate Prophets who wrote separately as God directed them to do. Might they have known one another? I think it would be naïve when we see the structure of both and how they approach the matters at hand so similarly, not to think that they probably did know each other. 

Haggai’s prophetic book covers a well-defined span of only 4 months, and from there Zechariah takes over. Haggai was probably born in exile up in Babylon, unless he was a very old man at the time of his writings, and I find that unlikely. It is interesting to note that this monumental time period of great transition for Israel that we read of in Haggai overlaps with what we read in Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Malachi, and also briefly overlaps with Zechariah. That is to say that we have much information of the goings on for the Jews of the 6th century B.C. that probably provides more historical data than any other Old Testament time period.

Use for independent study or group study.

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