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Lesson 16: Haggai, Zechariah & Malachi

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📖 Course Notes

The full course notes for this lesson are available in the official course textbook, Cover to Cover: Old Testament (Village Schools of the Bible, 2022). Please download or view the PDF below to study the material for this lesson.

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These final three Minor Prophets ministered to the people who had returned from exile, encouraging them to rebuild the temple, renew their worship, and look forward to the coming Messiah. Malachi closes the Old Testament, leaving God’s people waiting for the promised Deliverer.

📌 Haggai

Haggai stirs up the discouraged returnees to finish rebuilding the temple, promising that the glory of this house would be greater than the former, and pointing to God’s presence with them.

📌 Zechariah

Through a series of visions and prophecies, Zechariah encourages the people and gives some of the most detailed messianic prophecies in the Old Testament — the humble King on a donkey, the pierced one, and the coming Branch.

📌 Malachi

Malachi confronts the people’s spiritual complacency and calls them back to faithful worship and giving. He promises a messenger who will prepare the way for the Lord, then the Old Testament falls silent for 400 years until John the Baptist and Jesus.

🔴 The Scarlet Thread of Redemption — Jesus Revealed in Haggai, Zechariah & Malachi

These closing books point directly to the coming of Jesus and the messenger who would prepare His way.

📌 The Humble King

Zechariah 9:9 foretells the King coming “humble and mounted on a donkey” — fulfilled on Palm Sunday (Matthew 21:5).

📌 The Pierced One

Zechariah 12:10 foretells looking “on him whom they have pierced,” fulfilled at the cross (John 19:37).

📌 The Messenger

Malachi 3:1 and 4:5 promise a messenger to prepare the Lord’s way — fulfilled in John the Baptist (Matthew 11:10-14).

📚 Key Scripture

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.” — Malachi 3:1

📝 Study Questions

  1. How does Haggai motivate the people to put God first by rebuilding the temple?
  2. Which of Zechariah’s messianic prophecies do you find most striking, and how is it fulfilled in Jesus?
  3. What spiritual problems does Malachi confront, and how do they apply today?
  4. How does the promise of a coming “messenger” prepare the way for the New Testament?

📝 Lesson Quiz

Test your understanding of this lesson. You must score 100% to pass — you can retry the quiz until every answer is correct.

Lesson 16: Haggai, Zechariah & Malachi — Lesson Quiz

1 / 10

Together these final Old Testament prophets keep alive the people’s hope in God’s promise of a coming what?

2 / 10

After Malachi, there was a period of about 400 years of prophetic silence before the coming of whom?

3 / 10

Haggai encouraged the people that the glory of the rebuilt temple would be greater than the former one because of what?

4 / 10

Malachi prophesied that God would send a messenger to prepare the way before the Lord. This pointed to whom in the New Testament?

5 / 10

In Malachi, God rebuked the people for withholding their tithes and offerings, calling them to do what?

6 / 10

Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament. Whom did God address about their careless worship and hearts?

7 / 10

Zechariah contains a prophecy of a king coming to Jerusalem righteous and lowly, riding on what?

8 / 10

Zechariah encouraged the people to rebuild the temple and gave visions pointing forward to whom?

9 / 10

Haggai urged the returned exiles to prioritize rebuilding what, which they had neglected?

10 / 10

Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi are known as the post-exilic prophets because they ministered after which event?

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