Life-Study of the Minor Prophets

Message: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

I. The composition
II. The contents
A. God’s economy in His loving chastisement of Israel
B. Christ as the centrality and universality of God’s economy
1. In His eternal origin
2. In His human birth in Bethlehem
3. In His first coming as the Messenger of God
4. In His union with Israel as the Son of God loved by God and called out of Egypt by God
5. In His death and resurrection for the salvation of God to sinners
6. In His being the desire of all the nations
7. In Elijah’s being sent before him to prepare the way for His coming back
8. In His being sent by God the second time with His overcomers
9. In His arising as the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings
10. In His going forth as the dawn and coming as the rain, as the latter rain which waters the earth
11. In His second coming as the Angel of the covenant, whom Israel desires
12. In His coming as the mighty One with His overcomers to defeat Antichrist and His army
13. In His judgment of the nations
14. In His dwelling in the holy mountain of Zion within Jerusalem to reign among Israel
15. In His reigning in Zion as David their King, as Ruler in Israel, in the millennium
16. In His shepherding of Israel, becoming great and being their peace
C. Some crucial points
1. Being prepared to meet our God
2. God pardoning our iniquity and passing over our transgression
3. The outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost
4. The righteous one living by his faith
5. God being light to us and bringing us into the light
III. The central thought

On Hosea (1) _msg.2

The introductory word and the symbol of a wife of harlotries (1)
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Hosea
B. The time of Hosea’s ministry
C. The object of His ministry
D. The place of His ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
1. In His first coming
2. In His second coming
H. The sections
II. The symbol of a wife of harlotries
A. The prophet hosea taking gomer, a wife of harlotries
1. Gomer bearing hosea a son named by God Jezreel
2. Gomer bearing Hosea a daughter named by God Lo-ruhamah
3. Gomer bearing a son named by God Lo-ammi
4. Promise of restoration
a. The number of the children of Israel being like the sand of the sea
b. Being called sons of the living God
c. The children of Judah and the children of Israel being gathered together and appointing for themselves one head
d. God charging them to say to their brothers, “Ammi,” and to their sisters, “Ruhamah”

On Hosea (2) _msg.3

The symbol of a wife of harlotries (2)
B. The harlotries of Gomer as the wife to the prophet Hosea
1. Jehovah wanting the returned Israelites to contend with the adulterous people of Israel
2. Jehovah denying that Israel is the wife and that He is her husband
3. Jehovah warning Israel
4. Israel having gone about as a harlot and acting shamefully
5. Jehovah hedging up her way with thorns and building up a wall against her
6. Israel pursuing her lovers but not overtaking them
7. Israel not knowing that it was Jehovah who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the fresh oil
8. Jehovah taking back His grain in its time and His new wine in its appointed season
9. Jehovah uncovering her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one delivering her from His hand
C. Jehovah’s restoration of the adulterous and apostate Israel
1. Jehovah luring Israel, bringing her into the wilderness, and speaking to her heart
2. Jehovah giving Israel her vineyards and the valley of Achor as a door of hope
3. In that day Israel calling Jehovah her Husband
4. Jehovah making a covenant for Israel
5. Jehovah betrothing Israel to Himself forever
6. Jehovah answering the heavens, and the heavens answering the earth
7. Jehovah sowing Israel for Himself in the land
D. The confirmation of God’s faithful restoration of Israel
1. Jehovah telling Hosea to love Gomer, a woman of adulteries, again
2. Hosea loving Gomer and telling her to abide with him many days
3. The children of Israel returning and seeking Jehovah and David their king (Christ in the millennium)

On Hosea (3) _msg.4

The sins of the apostate people, the punishments of Jehovah, and the return of the apostate people
I. The sins of the apostate people and the punishments of Jehovah
A. The sins of Israel and the punishments of Jehovah — concerning the people in general
1. No faithfulness, no kindness, and no knowledge of God
2. False swearing, deceiving, murder, stealing, and adultery
3. The people being violent
4. The land mourning, and the inhabitants of the land languishing
B. The sins of the people and the punishments of Jehovah — concerning the priests
1. The people contending with the priest
2. The priest stumbling in the day, and the prophet stumbling with the priest in the night
3. God’s people — the priests — being destroyed because of a lack of the knowledge of God
4. God rejecting the priest
5. God forgetting the priest’s children
6. God changing the glory of the priests in their multiplication into shame
7. The priests feeding on the sin offering of God’s people
8. The priests eating but not being filled
C. The sins of Israel and the punishment of Jehovah — concerning fornication, wine, and harlotries
1. Fornication, wine, and new wine taking away their heart
2. God’s people inquiring at their wooden post
3. Offering sacrifices upon the tops of the mountains and burning incense upon the hills
4. The people who had no understanding being cast down
D. The sins of Israel and the punishments of Jehovah — concerning Israel’s stubbornness
1. Israel going about as a harlot
2. Israel being stubborn, like a stubborn heifer
3. Jehovah limiting Israel in a narrow field
4. Ephraim being joined to idols
5. Ephraim being left alone
6. Their liquor having ended, and they having given themselves up to harlotry
7. The wind having wrapped her up in its wings
E. The sins of Israel and the punishments of Jehovah — mainly concerning the priests, the house of the king, and the princes
1. Jehovah’s judgment coming upon the priests, upon the house of Israel, and upon the house of the king
2. Ephraim having gone about as a harlot, and Israel being defiled
3. The pride of Israel testifying to his face
4. Going to seek Jehovah but not finding Him
5. Acting treacherously against Jehovah
6. Ephraim being a desolation in the day of correction
7. The princes of Judah becoming like those who move a boundary mark
8. Ephraim being oppressed, crushed by judgment
9. Jehovah being like a moth to Ephraim
10. Ephraim going to Assyria
11. Jehovah being like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah
12. The lovingkindness of Ephraim and Judah being like a morning cloud and like dew that departs early
13. They like Adam having transgressed the covenant
14. Gilead being a city of those who commit iniquity
15. In the house of Israel Jehovah having seen a horrid thing
II. The return of the apostate people
A. Jehovah going away and returning to His place, until the apostate people acknowledge their offense and seek His face
B. The return of the apostate people
1. A word concerning coming and returning to Jehovah, who will heal them and bind them up
2. Jehovah enlivening them after two days
3. A word concerning knowing Jehovah and concerning Christ’s going forth as the dawn and His coming as the rain
C. Jehovah’s promise to Judah in the return of the apostate people

On Hosea (4) _msg.5

The sins of Israel in forsaking Jehovah and Jehovah’s punishments on Israel because of their forsaking of Him
I. The sins of Israel in forsaking Jehovah
A. Sins in their social life among the people and the rulers
1. Falsehood, theft, raids, evils, lies, intoxication, and scorn
2. Adultery practiced by all of the people
B. Evils in their relationship with Jehovah
1. Wandering from Jehovah
2. Ephraim being likened to three things
a. An unturned cake
b. A silly dove
c. A deceitful bow
II. Jehovah’s punishments on Israel because of their forsaking of Him
A. Like an eagle the enemy coming against the house of Jehovah
B. Israel having cast off what is good
C. They having set up kings but not by Jehovah
D. With their silver and gold making idols for themselves
1. Samaria’s calf having cast Israel off
2. The calf of Samaria being shattered to pieces
3. In making idols having sown wind and reaping a whirlwind
4. Israel becoming among the nations like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure
E. Ephraim having multiplied altars
1. Jehovah writing for Ephraim the ten thousand things of His law
2. They sacrificing flesh and eating it, but Jehovah having no delight in them
F. Israel having forgotten his Maker and having built palaces, and Judah having multiplied fortified cities

On Hosea (5) _msg.6

The idolatry of Israel against Jehovah and the punishments of Jehovah upon Israel
I. The idolatry of Israel against Jehovah being like a wife’s harlotries against her husband
II. Israel having gone as a Harlot away from her God
III. The threshing floor and the winepress not feeding them
IV. They not dwelling in the land of Jehovah
V. They not pouring out offerings of wine to Jehovah, and their sacrifices not being pleasing to Him
VI. They not participating in the day of assembly and in the day of the feast of Jehovah
VII. They escaping from destruction, but Egypt gathering them, and Moph burying them
VIII. The days of visitation having come
IX. Ephraim having been a watchman with God
X. Jehovah finding Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and seeing their fathers as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning
XI. The glory of Ephraim flying away like a bird
XII. Israel being a luxuriant vine bringing forth fruit for himself
XIII. They speaking mere words, swearing falsely while making a covenant
XIV. Israel having sinned since the days of Gibeah
XV. Ephraim being a trained heifer that loves to tread the grain, but Jehovah having passed the yoke over her fair neck
XVI. The charge to sow unto righteousness for themselves, to reap according to lovingkindness, and to break up their fallow ground

On Hosea (6) _msg.7

Jehovah’s unchanging love versus Israel’s stubborn unchastity (1)
I. Israel’s stubborn unchastity
A. God’s prophets calling them
B. They refusing to return to Jehovah
C. Ephraim encompassing Jehovah with lies
D. Ephraim feeding on wind and following the east wind continually
E. Jehovah having also a controversy with Judah and punishing Jacob according to his ways
F. Ephraim being a merchant
G. Gilead being iniquity
H. Ephraim provoking Jehovah to bitter anger
I. Being like a morning cloud and like dew that departs early, like chaff driven by a storm wind, and like smoke from a window vent
J. Their heart being exalted, and they having forgotten Jehovah
K. It being their destruction that Israel was against Jehovah
L. The iniquity of Ephraim being bound up
M. A wind of Jehovah coming from the wilderness
N. Israel having fallen by his iniquity

On Hosea (7) _msg.8

Jehovah’s unchanging love versus Israel’s stubborn unchastity (2)
II. Jehovah’s unchanging love
A. Jehovah loving Israel when Israel was a child, and out of Egypt Jehovah calling His son
B. Jehovah calling Israel by His prophets
C. Jehovah teaching Ephraim to walk
D. Jehovah drawing the children of Israel with cords of a man, with bands of love
E. Jehovah not giving Ephraim up
F. The children of Israel walking after Jehovah, and Jehovah causing them to dwell in their houses
G. At Bethel Jacob finding Jehovah, and there Jehovah speaking with the children of Israel
H. Since the land of Egypt Jehovah having been the God of the children of Israel
I. Israel knowing that there is no God except Jehovah
J. Jehovah ransoming them from the power of Sheol
K. Jehovah through His prophet calling Israel to return to Him their God
L. Israel in the restoration
III. The prophet’s word being wise

On Hosea (8) _msg.9

Three implications concerning Christ
Christ, the Son of God, being called out of Egypt by God
The only begotten Son and the firstborn Son
The many sons
Cords of a man, bands of love
God gently causing us to eat

On Joel (1) _msg.10

The introductory word and the day of Jehovah
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Joel
B. The time of Joel’s ministry
C. The object of Joel’s ministry
D. The place of Joel’s ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
1. In His coming with His overcomers as the mighty ones to defeat Antichrist and his army
2. In His judgment of the nations
3. In His dwelling in the holy mountain of Zion within Jerusalem to reign among Israel
H. The sections
II. The day of Jehovah
A. The day of Jehovah in Joel being the day of the Lord in the New Testament
B. The Lord’s judgment for His governmental dealing
C. The day of the Lord being the day in which the Lord judges
D. The final day of Jehovah (the Lord) beginning at the sixth seal and ending at the judgment of the great white throne
1. The natural calamities of the sixth seal
2. The severer calamities of the first four trumpets
3. The first woe, the fifth trumpet
4. The second woe, the sixth trumpet
5. The third woe, the seventh trumpet
a. The evil and malignant sore of the first bowl
b. In the second bowl the sea becoming blood like that of a dead man
c. In the third bowl the rivers and springs becoming blood
d. In the fourth bowl the sun burning men with fire
e. In the fifth bowl the kingdom of Antichrist becoming darkened
f. In the sixth bowl there being the war of Armageddon
g. The unprecedented earthquake of the seventh bowl
6. All the calamities, plagues, and woes from the sixth seal to the seventh bowl constituting the great tribulation, the hour of trial
a. The religious Babylon the Great being destroyed
b. The two witnesses
c. Antichrist blaspheming God and making war with the saints and overcoming them
7. Satan being bound for a thousand years and cast into the abyss
8. Christ ruling the nations with an iron rod for one thousand years
9. The burning of the rebellious people and the casting of the Devil into the lake of fire
10. The judgment of the great white throne
E. The heavens and the earth being renewed

On Joel (2) _msg.11

The content (1)
I. The plague of the locusts (the nations)
A. The seriousness of the prophecy
1. A message for the elders among the people and for all the inhabitants of the land
2. The cutting locust, the swarming locust, the licking locust, and the consuming locust
B. The coming up of a nation, mighty and without number, against the land of Jehovah
1. Likened to one kind of locust in four stages
2. Further likened to the great human image in four sections
3. Further likened to four beasts
4. Likened ultimately to four horns
5. To devastate the land of Jehovah
6. From Nebuchadnezzar, the first king of the Babylonian Empire, to the last Caesar of the Roman Empire

On Joel (3) _msg.12

The content (2)
II. The turn of Jehovah to His elect, Israel
A. Wanting them to turn to Jehovah their God
1. With all their heart
2. With fasting, weeping, and mourning
3. Rending their hearts and not their garments
4. Blowing a trumpet in Zion
5. Sanctifying a fast
6. Calling a solemn assembly
7. Letting the priests weep between the porch and the altar
B. Desiring to bless His own land
1. With the rich produce of the land
2. By the rains
3. By driving away from the people the enemies sent by God as His great army
C. Willing to save them
1. By pouring out His Spirit upon them
2. Through their calling on the name of Jehovah
3. Accompanied by the natural calamities of the sixth seal and the first four trumpets
4. Before the fifth trumpet, the first of the three woes
III. The judgment of Christ upon the nations
A. At the valley of Jehoshaphat
B. To recompense the nations’ mistreatment of Israel during the great tribulation
IV. The victory of Christ with His overcomers over the nations and His reign among Israel in the age of restoration
A. Christ with His overcomers defeating Antichrist and his armies at Armageddon
B. Christ reigning among Israel on the holy mountain of Zion within Jerusalem
C. Christ being a shelter and a stronghold to the children of Israel
D. In the restoration
1. The mountains dropping down fresh wine and the hills flowing with milk
2. All the waterways of Judah flowing with water
3. A fountain going forth from the house of Jehovah to water the land
E. All the surrounding enemies of Israel being punished

On Joel (4) _msg.13

The controlling prophecy of the four locusts in the book of Joel
The difference between Daniel and Joel
The four kinds of locusts denoting the four sections of human government
The four kinds of locusts consuming the nation of Israel
Through the roman locusts God’s redemption and the preaching of the gospel being carried out
The three things that are taking place on earth today
God and the Bible both being real
The need for a clear view concerning three matters
The present age
Where we are
Our goal as members of the Body of Christ
Taking the overcoming way

On Joel (5) _msg.14

The four factors in the book of Joel
The first factor — the consuming of the locusts
The second factor — the suffering of Israel
God’s purpose concerning the suffering factor
God’s use of the consuming factor
The third factor — the beneficiaries
The fourth factor — the principle of restoration

On Joel (6) _msg.15

The universal history according to God’s economy — the divine history within the human history
Two histories — the history of man and the history of God
The divine history within the human history
God’s intention in His economy
The continuation of the divine history
Christ’s incarnation and human living
Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection
Christ’s coming back, the kingdom, and the New Jerusalem
The need for a clear view of the two histories
Born in the human history and reborn in the divine history to live in the divine history in the church life

On Joel (7) _msg.16

The history of God with man and the history of God in man
The minor prophets — a key to understanding the Bible
The Bible being the history of God in two portions
The history of God with man
The history of God in man
The incarnation accomplishing two things
Bringing God into man
Making God one with man
Our involvement with the God-man
Man not taking God’s way
God coming in to chastise His chosen people and to punish the nations
God’s chastisement of Israel and His punishment of the nations affording a way for Christ to be manifested for the restoration of the fallen universe
The lesson for us today
Our failure
Our need for God’s chastisement

On Amos (1) _msg.17

On Amos (2) _msg.18

Jehovah’s contending with the house of Jacob (1)
I. Jehovah’s three reproofs to Israel
A. The first reproof
1. Jehovah’s word against the whole family of Israel
2. Israel being the only family of the earth whom Jehovah has known
3. The cause of Jehovah’s visitation
4. The oppressions, violence, and devastation in Samaria and Jehovah’s visitation
5. The transgressions of Israel at the altars of Bethel and Jehovah’s visitation
B. The second reproof
1. The oppression on the poor and the crushing of the needy in Samaria and Jehovah’s visitation
2. Israel’s idol worship in Bethel and Gilgal
3. Jehovah’s visitation with the expectation of Israel’s return to Him
C. The third reproof
1. A lamentation taken up by Jehovah over the house of Israel
2. Israel’s fall and defeat
3. Jehovah advising Israel to seek Him and live
4. Israel’s transgressions of injustice in spite of their hypocritical services with offerings to Jehovah, and Jehovah’s visitation

On Amos (3) _msg.19

Jehovah’s contending with the house of Jacob (2)
And the restoration of the house of Israel with the rebuilding of the fallen tabernacle of David for the kingdom of Christ
II. The plagues of the five signs seen by Amos
A. The introduction
1. Israel, especially the high class, living at ease a life of luxuries
2. Jehovah’s punishment
B. The plague of the first sign — locusts to eat the herbage of the land
1. The prophet praying that the Lord Jehovah would forgive because Jacob was small and could not stand
2. Jehovah repenting and stopping the plague
C. The plague of the second sign — fire to devour the great deep and the land
1. The prophet praying that the Lord would stop it
2. Jehovah repenting and stopping the plague
D. The plague of the third sign — a plumb line in the Lord’s hand
1. The Lord telling Amos that he was now setting a plumb line in the midst of His people Israel
2. The Lord not passing by the people of Israel again anymore
E. The frustration by Amaziah the priest of Bethel
1. Amaziah’s words of frustration
2. Amos’s answer to Amaziah
F. The plague of the fourth sign — summer fruit
1. The Lord not passing by the people of Israel again anymore
2. The tragedy among Israel
3. The lacking of the word of Jehovah
4. The worshippers of the calf of Samaria and of the idols in Dan and Beer-sheba falling and not rising up again
G. The plague of the fifth sign — the Lord standing upon the altar
1. The shaking and slaying
2. The judging One
3. The Lord’s destruction of Israel not an utter destruction of the house of Jacob
III. The restoration of the house of Israel with the rebuilding of the fallen tabernacle of David for the kingdom of Christ
A. Raising up the fallen tabernacle of David that Israel may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations which are called by the name of Jehovah
B. The plowman overtaking the reaper, and the grape treader, him who sows the seed
C. Jehovah turning the captivity of His people
D. Jehovah planting the people of Israel upon their land

On Obadiah _msg.20

Jehovah’s dealing with Esau and Jacob’s victory for the kingdom of Jehovah
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Obadiah
B. The time of Obadiah’s ministry
C. The object of His ministry
D. The place of His ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The sections
II. Jehovah’s dealings with Edom
A. Stirring up the nations to rise up against it for battle
B. Having made Edom small among the nations
C. Bringing Edom down from its dwelling in the lofty clefts of the rock to the ground
D. Edom’s being plundered by the thieves and spoilers
E. Edom’s being deceived by its confederacy
F. Destroying its wise men, dismaying its mighty men, and cutting off each one from the mountain of Esau
III. The evils of Edom
A. Being violent against his brother Jacob
B. Standing on the side when strangers took his brother’s substance captive
C. Looking to the day of his brother’s misfortune
D. Entering the gate of Israel and looking on Israel’s affliction
E. Standing at the crossroads to cut off those of Israel who escaped
IV. The day of Jehovah upon all the nations
A. The principle for judging Edom
B. The principle for judging the nations
V. The issue of Jehovah’s dealing
A. The house of Jacob being saved and sanctified
B. The house of Jacob overcoming Edom
C. The house of Jacob possessing Edom’s possessions
D. Saviors coming up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau
E. Fulfilled at the Maccabees’ time and to be much more fulfilled in glory at the time of restoration for the kingdom of God

On Jonah _msg.21

Jehovah’s care and salvation to the most evil city of the Gentiles
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Jonah
B. The time of Jonah’s ministry
C. The object of his ministry
D. The place of his ministry
E. The subject of his ministry
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
1. In Jonah’s typifying Christ preaching the gospel of peace to the Gentiles
2. In Jonah’s staying in the great fish three days and three nights
H. The sections
II. Jonah’s fleeing from Jehovah’s commission
A. Jehovah’s commission
B. Jonah’s fleeing to Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah
C. Jehovah’s interruption
D. The type of Christ
III. Jonah’s repenting
A. Jonah’s prayer to Jehovah
B. Jehovah commanding the fish
IV. Jonah’s preaching
A. Jehovah’s commission to Jonah the second time, and Jonah’s preaching to the great city Nineveh
B. The people and the king of Nineveh believing God, proclaiming a fast, and repenting
C. God repenting and not doing the evil to them
V. Jonah’s prejudice
A. Jehovah’s turning from doing evil to Nineveh displeasing Jonah greatly, and Jonah praying to Jehovah in his anger
B. The lesson of the castor-oil tree
C. God’s pity on the most evil city of the Gentiles

On Micah (1) _msg.22

The introductory word and Jehovah’s reproof on Israel
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Micah
B. The time of Micah’s ministry
C. The place of his ministry
D. The object of his ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
H. The sections
II. Jehovah’s reproof on Israel
A. Jehovah’s coming in judgment from His holy temple
B. The cause
C. The destruction of Samaria
D. The invasion of Jerusalem
E. The terrors in Judah and Israel and the evils from Jehovah
F. Jehovah’s reproof on Israel’s evils
G. Jehovah’s reproof on the heads and rulers of the house of Israel
H. The destruction of Jerusalem and Mount Zion

On Micah (2) _msg.23

Jehovah’s comfort to Israel
III. Jehovah’s comfort to Israel
A. The restoration of Israel in the millennium
B. Jehovah’s gathering of the remnant of the people
C. Israel to be captured and Jehovah’s deliverance to Israel
D. Christ to come as Israel’s Ruler, Shepherd, and peace
E. Israel to be invaded by Assyria and saved by Christ
F. The remnant of Jacob to be blessed by Jehovah and victorious among the nations
G. Jehovah’s clearing up of the armies, cities, strongholds, witchcraft, idols, and idol worship from Israel and his executing of vengeance upon the nations

On Micah (3) _msg.24

The greatness of the prophets in their speaking concerning Christ
Seeing Nimrod and Assyria in relation to Christ
The prophets turning from Christ to small things
Prophets, not psalmists
Amos’s and Micah’s greatness in their prophesying concerning Christ
Amos’s prophecy concerning Christ’s rebuilding the fallen tabernacle of David
Micah’s prophecy concerning the goings forth of Christ

On Micah (4) _msg.25

Jehovah’s contending with Israel and the prophet’s observation and expectation
IV. Jehovah’s contending with Israel
A. Taking Israel’s history as a base
B. Aspiring after Israel’s genuine worship and sincere service
C. Stating the cause and the effect
V. The prophet’s observation and expectation
A. The prophet’s observation of discouragement
B. The prophet’s expectation of encouragement
1. Taking the lead to look for Jehovah and wait for God
2. Assuring Israel of her restoration
3. Asking Jehovah to feed His people Israel
4. Thanking God for His forgiveness of the remnant of the people

On Nahum _msg.26

Jehovah’s judgment on Nineveh
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Nahum
B. The time of Nahum’s ministry
C. The place of His ministry
D. The object of His ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The sections
II. Jehovah as the majestic Judge
A. Jehovah as the Judge
B. The majesty of Jehovah as the Judge
III. Jehovah’s judgment on Nineveh
A. The verdict concerning Nineveh’s destruction by the Medes and Babylonians
B. The promise of comfort to Judah
C. A vision of the destruction of Nineveh
1. The swift activity of the Babylonian armies to destroy Nineveh
2. The way of the king of Assyria and his queen to encounter the Babylonian attack
3. The Babylonian armies’ plunder of the wealth and their slaughter of the people of Nineveh
4. The restoration of the excellency of Israel
D. The devastation of the people of Nineveh
E. The miserable end of the king of Assyria

On Habakkuk (1) _msg.27

The introductory word and the first and the second dialogues between the prophet and Jehovah
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Habakkuk
B. The time of Habakkuk’s ministry
C. The place of his ministry
D. The object of his ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The sections
II. The first dialogue between the prophet and Jehovah
A. The prophet’s inquiry of Jehovah
B. Jehovah’s answer to the prophet
III. The second dialogue between the prophet and Jehovah
A. The prophet’s inquiry of Jehovah
1. Asking why Jehovah keeps silent when the Chaldeans swallow up His elect
2. Saying that Jehovah makes man like the fish of the sea
3. Standing and watching to see what Jehovah would speak to him
B. Jehovah’s answer to the prophet
1. Telling him to write the vision
2. The vision being yet for an appointed time
3. The Chaldeans being puffed up, their soul not being upright within them, but the righteous one living by his faith

On Habakkuk (2) _msg.28

Christ as the linking factor in Micah, Jonah, and Habakkuk and the Bible as the divine revelation given by God’s speaking through man
Christ as the linking factor in Micah, Jonah, and Habakkuk
Christ’s origin and birth
Christ’s death and resurrection
The righteous one living by his faith
The need to see something intrinsic
The Bible as the divine revelation given by God’s speaking through man
Transferred out of Adam and into Christ
The strong accent in the Old Testament
The kernel, the intrinsic part, of the Old Testament

On Habakkuk (3) _msg.29

The second dialogue between the prophet and Jehovah and the prophet’s song to Jehovah
4. Five woes to the Chaldeans
a. The first woe
b. The second woe
c. The third woe
d. The fourth woe
e. The fifth woe
IV. The prophet’s song to Jehovah
A. In prayer
B. In lauding
C. In trusting in Jehovah
1. The prophet trembling in his place
2. The prophet waiting for the day of distress
3. The prophet exulting in Jehovah and rejoicing in the God of His salvation, and Jehovah the Lord being his strength
D. The song being for the choir director

On Zephaniah _msg.30
On Haggai _msg.31

The building of the house of Jehovah in relation to Israel’s welfare and Messiah’s coming
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Haggai
B. The time of Haggai’s ministry
C. The place of his ministry
D. The object of his ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
1. Christ’s being the desire of all the nations
2. Christ’s coming as the Messiah in the coming age
H. The sections
II. Jehovah’s rebuke and charge concerning the delay of the building of His house
A. Jehovah’s rebuke
1. The people’s excuse
2. Jehovah’s question
3. Jehovah’s dealing with the self-caring and God-neglecting returned captives
a. Charging them to consider their ways
b. Telling them that they had sown much but had brought in little
c. Saying that they looked for much and it amounted to little
B. Jehovah’s charge
C. The people’s response
III. The prophecy concerning the house of Jehovah in the millennium and the promise of Messiah in the coming kingdom
A. The prophecy concerning the house of Jehovah in the millennium, as an encouragement to the building of Jehovah’s house at Zerubbabel’s time
B. The people’s uncleanness and Jehovah’s dealing with them and then blessing them
C. The promise of Messiah in the coming kingdom

On Malachi (1) _msg.32

The introductory word and Jehovah’s love of Jacob and His dealing with the sons of Levi
I. The introductory word
A. The meaning of the name Malachi
B. The time of Malachi’s ministry
C. The place of his ministry
D. The object of his ministry
E. The subject
F. The central thought
G. The revelation concerning Christ
H. The sections
II. Jehovah’s love for Jacob
A. Jehovah loving Jacob but hating Esau
B. Edom being called the territory of wickedness
C. Jehovah being magnified over the territory of Israel (in Edom)
III. Jehovah’s dealing with the sons of Levi (the priests)
A. The degradation of the priests
1. Despising Jehovah’s name and His table
2. Presenting to Jehovah blemished offerings
3. Jehovah’s abhorring of their offerings
4. The greatness of Jehovah’s name among the nations
B. The priests’ breaking of Jehovah’s commandment and their corrupting of Jehovah’s covenant
C. The treachery of Judah among the brothers and their profaneness toward Jehovah
D. Jehovah’s hatred of the treachery of man toward his wife
1. The treachery of a priest toward his wife damaging his priesthood
2. Jehovah making the priest and his wife one in order to produce the seed of God
3. Jehovah hating divorce
4. Jehovah being wearied with the priests’ words
E. To refine and purify the priests by His coming as the Messenger of Jehovah
1. This prophecy having a threefold fulfillment
a. In the coming of the prophet Malachi
b. In the first coming of Christ with John the Baptist as His forerunner
c. In the second coming of Christ with Elijah as His forerunner
2. Christ suddenly coming as the Angel of the covenant
a. To execute upon Israel the covenant that He enacted through His death
b. To refine and purify the sons of Levi

On Malachi (2) _msg.33

Christ in His two comings as revealed in Malachi
Christ coming as the Messenger of God
Christ coming as the Angel of the covenant
Enacting the new covenant
The believers, as sons of God, being one with God in His life and nature
Christ coming as the desire of the nations
Christ coming as the sun of righteousness with healing in His wings
The center of the book of Malachi

On Malachi (3) _msg.34

Jehovah’s dealing with the sons of Jacob
IV. Jehovah’s dealing with the sons of Jacob
A. Jehovah’s judgment by His drawing near
1. On those who do not fear Jehovah
2. Because of Jehovah’s not changing, the sons of Jacob not being consumed
B. Jehovah’s advice to the sons of Jacob
1. Instructing them to return to Him so that He would return to them that they might be blessed by Him
a. Not robbing God in tithes and offerings
b. Bringing the whole tithe to the storehouse that there may be food in God’s house
c. Jehovah rebuking the devourer for their sake
2. All the nations calling them blessed, and they being a land of delight
C. Jehovah’s encouragement to those who fear Him and serve Him
1. The words of some of the sons of Jacob being strongly against Jehovah
a. Saying that it was vain to serve God
b. Calling the arrogant blessed
2. The word of encouragement by Jehovah
a. Those who feared Jehovah speaking to one another
b. A book of remembrance being written before Jehovah
c. The sons of Jacob being Jehovah’s personal treasure
d. The sons of Jacob returning and discerning between Him who is righteous and him who is wicked
D. Jehovah’s warning by the day of Jehovah
1. The day coming, burning like a furnace
2. Unto those who fear Jehovah’s name the Sun of righteousness arising with healing in His wings
3. Charging the sons of Jacob to remember the law of Moses, the statutes and the judgments
4. Promising to send Elijah the prophet to them before the great and terrible day of Jehovah comes

The revival revealed in the Minor Prophets _msg.35

I. The aspiration of God’s elect
II. The desolation of the “two days” and the resurrection on the “third day”
III. The outpouring of the Spirit
IV. The response of God’s elect
V. The enjoyment of God’s Christ
A. As the desire of God’s elect
B. As the Angel of the covenant
1. To execute as its surety the new covenant enacted through His death
2. To dispense the riches of the covenanted Triune God into His elect
C. As the Sun of righteousness
1. For growing in life, in the dispelling of the darkness
2. For Healing in Life, in the Effacing of Unrighteousness
An additional word
The universal aspiration for revival
Christ — the reality of the third day
Enjoying Christ as the One desired by mankind
The ultimate restoration

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