Day 64 ~ minor prophets start

• Daniel 11 - vision with the angel Michael. This is a question of when this vision will be fulfilled. Has it been fulfilled? Resist...urge...to...graph...
• 11:32 - abomination of desolation - of course my Bible chooses this area to be silent. There are no commentaries on this prophetic passage that many believe will occur before Christ returns.
• 12:2 - promise of everlasting - even to those already dead - everlasting life or everlasting shame and contempt. Also 12:13 - arise to inheritance. More promises of eternal life.
• 12:11 - after the abomination of desolation, 1290 days (real days?, figurative days?). Blessed is he wo waits nad comes to 1,335 days. What about the 45 days between? What events have occurred that fit into this prophecy? any?

Daniel ends the "major" or longer books of prophecy. We now enter in to the "minor" or shorter books of prophecy - Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi which closes out the Old Testament. Which is what we'll do in a few days. Can you believe it?

Hosea - back up 200 years or so, after a larger focus on the southern kingdom of Judah, Hosea prophecies to the northern kingdom of Israel the last 30 or so years before their captivity by Assyria in 722BC. Israel is sometimes referred to as Ephraim, the largest tribe of the northern kingdom.

• Chapter 1 - Hosea marries a prostitute as a symbol of God's love for a wayward nation.
• 1:11 - reunited after captivity as one nation
• 5:14/15 - God will take Israel and Judah into captivity then wait until they acknowledge their sin and seek him earnestly.
• 6:2 - Messianic - like Jesus, raised up on the third day?
• 6:6- God desires mercy, not sacrifice; Knowledge of God is more than burnt offerings.- this has been stated many times now since the rules of Leviticus were given.
• 11:7 - "My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High. None at all exalt Him."

Joel is written to Judah. Many agriculture references. Again, we are told of the lament of coming invasions to not only Judah and Israel, but the surrounding countries.

• 2:13 - rend your heart, not your garments.
• 2:28-29 God will pour out his spirit - fulfilled as quoted in Acts chapter 2:16-21.

I saved Amos to begin tomorrow.