Fourth Message: Zerubbabel, The Lord's Signet Ring (2:20 "23) 1. ... Focusing solely on rebuilding what they had lost in the exile made the people selfish and ultimately flung them farther from the Lord, who delivered them back from exile. The Lord again tells the people to consider their ways and reflect thoughtfully on what they were doing. ... The Response of Zerubbabel and the People (1:12 "15) Haggai's preaching moved Zerubbabel, Joshua, and all the "remnant " of the people who had returned from captivity to obey the Lord. ... Their obedience demonstrated reverence ...

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Immediately our Lord begins to put the background on the canvas. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ... In this story that our Lord told there was never any question as to whether the boy was a son or not. ...

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They say respectively: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," and, "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is.... Tolkien's great epic The Lord of the Rings, Frodo and Sam are crawling through the slag heaps of Mordor desperately attempting to fulfill their perilous quest when Sam stops to ask, "I wonder what kind of story we're in, Mr. ...

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• Grade Level: High School