This book is one of expository notes on Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Mr. Roberts has picked up the setting of Judah following the return of the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity in Iraq. After seventy years of captivity, they are free again. They have become apathetic, however, about their duty to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Instead they have turned to build for themselves. Haggai and Zechariah have been sent by God to arouse them and encourage them to rebuild the temple. These two prophets did accomplish their mission, but they did more than that. They were allowed to look ahead and...

This is a book in which you will marvel at the sovereignty of God. It is not written in highly sophisticated English; rather it is written in the everyday plain language of the everyday man. You will see the holiness of God vindicated in the Assyrians taking the ten tribes of Israel and enfolding them into their own empire. You will also see the Babylonian Captivity. You will even so be carried forward to the restoration of Babylon and the restoration of Israel. You will see that sovereignty of God played out in the remembering of the Abrahamic Covenant as Israel is brought back into the...