Author: Rich Gorecki

My year-long journey through the Bible now leads us to a 400-year period between the Prophets and the New Testament called the Intertestamental Period. I’m deviating from using The MANual for this post since my New Living Testament (NLT) Life Application Bible does a great job explaining this time period.  So first, here’s a brief refresher of the Old Testament to help us understand the need for a new covenant with God described in the New Testament.  About the Old Testament As you read in some prior posts during this journey, the Christian Bible’s Old Testament is broken down into four main sections:  The Books of Moses (5 books from Genesis through Deuteronomy),  The History of Israel (12 books from Joshua through Esther) The Books of Poetry (5 books from Job through the Song of Solomon), and  The Prophets (17 books but read below for more).  The books of the

My year-long journey through my NIV Bible for Men called The MANual, continues with the remaining six minor prophets that finish the Old Testament. The preceding post about The First Six Minor Prophets covered Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah of the period 700 B.C. and earlier. The other six prophets: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi came after 700 B.C. and are just as important.   As you learned in the Introduction to The Minor Prophets, the twelve each have short, separate books in the Christian Bible, whereas, the Jewish Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) contains one longer collection of prophets called the Nevi’im. As I’ve suggested in the prior posts, read these books looking for the messages about the coming kingdom in the person of Jesus Christ and seeing how the prophecies apply to us today.  Here are briefs on these other six prophets.  Nahum The Book