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)}