Session 243 - Start with Session 1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catholicbiblestudy/support ..read more

Show REVERANCE to God! Give your best! God hates divorce! (2:16) Don’t rob God...bring God your time, talent, and treasure (tithe). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catholicbiblestudy/support ..read more

Distinctive Features: Prophecy: 9:9 “King shall come....meek, riding on an ass....”  (See Mt. 21:4) Prophecy: 11:12-13  Shepherd bought for “30 pieces of silver.”  (See Mt.27:3-10.) Prophecy: 12:10 “They shall look on Him whom they have pierced.....”  (See John 19:37, Revelation 1:7.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catholicbiblestudy/support ..read more

Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi are Postexilic prophets....they speak AFTER the people have been allowed to return from their Babylonian Exile. Haggai: c.520BC - Though the people have returned, they have NOT rebuilt the Temple, partly due to outside influences, but also lack of proper priorities.  See Ezra 1-6 for background.  Does God have priority in your life? Zechariah: c.520BC (Same as Haggai above.) Chs1-4.... Return to God, there will be a New Jerusalem, we are the apple of God’s eye! We can have Hope! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catholi ..read more

Timeline: 750-710BC, contemporary of Isaiah (Isaiah 1-39), but Chapters 4-7 probably added after the return from exile, which began in 538BC. Distinctive Feature: The ruler, the shepherd of his people, will come from BETHLEHEM. (5:1-4) (See Mt. 2:1-5) 7:7 “But as for me, I will look to the Lord.”  (See Joshua 24:15) Again, as with most of the Prophets, it offers hope for the future. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catholicbiblestudy/support ..read more

Timeless truths in Jonah: 1) You can’t hide from God 2) We all have a job to do for the Kingdom-evangelize! 3) God wants ALL to convert...even Israel’s worst enemy! 4) WE should pray for the conversion of our enemies. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catholicbiblestudy/support ..read more

Amos 4-9   4:1 , 5:11 and 12, 8:4-6, Don’t “oppress the weak and abuse the needy.” Amos Distinctive Feature:  “Plumb line” (7:7-8) to determine “straight” vs. “crooked” behavior and worship. Amos-Salvation promised to the faithful in 9:11-15.  (9:11 quoted by James in Acts 15:16-17 at the Council of Jerusalem.) Obadiah- only 21 verses long!  Against Edom, 5th Century BC. Jonah- Were the events real, or was this a “fish story?”  See CCC 107 (“truth...for the sake of our SALVATION...”) CCC 110. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ca ..read more

Hosea 11, God is a loving Father.  Hosea 14, God shows mercy on all who repent. Joel- Timeline unknown.  (800’sBC?  400’sBC? -no mention of kings, or Assyria, or Babylon?) Distinctive Feature: “Locusts” as punishment.  “Apocalyptic” view, End Times, “the day of the Lord” mentioned 5X. Joel 3:1 “Spirit” poured out, quoted by Peter in Acts 2:17-21 at Pentecost. Joel 3:5  “Everyone shall be rescued who calls on the name of the Lord.”  (Again, realize the Catholic Church’s understanding of salvation, and what it entails to call on the name of the Lord!) Amos-Time ..read more

Hosea: Timeline is c. 750BC-715BC.  (Just before and just after the Northern Kingdom fell to the Assyrians in 722BC.) Audience: The Northern Kingdom. Distinctive Feature: Hosea’s wife, Gomer, (the Roamer!), a prostitute, is an allegory for how Israel had prostituted its faith, in bad political alliances and idol worship through temple pros --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catholicbiblestudy/support ..read more

“Daniel” is an example of Apocalyptic literature, which was written to give people hope in times of persecution.  Daniel is like “Revelation” in this regard, which even borrows images directly from “Daniel.” (See Daniel Ch. 7 and Revelation Ch.13 Both Daniel and Revelation look at Jewish  tribulations at the time of their respective writings, look backward in time to past Jewish tribulations, and remind the reader that God delivered His people then, and will in the future, as long as the people keep their faith/return to the faith. Daniel, thought to be written 167-164BC by most sc ..read more