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Isaiah and Micah predicted international salvation through the coming of Christ.
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Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah warned of God’s retribution on the nations.
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Jeremiah in Lamentations grieved over God’s retribution on His people but he looked for a covenantal (Mosaic Covenant) reaffirmation in Christ.
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Christ as seen in Lamentations.
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Lamentations includes two elements that portray the Savior.
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It portrays Him as the Man of Sorrows who was acquainted with grief, who was afflicted, despised, and scorned by His enemies, (cf. 1:12; 3:19: 2:15-16; 3:14, 30).
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Jeremiah’s weeping over the destruction of Jerusalem is perhaps also a portrayal or picture of Christ who wept over Jerusalem, (see Matt. 23:37-38).
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Ezekiel expected the nation’s religious restoration.
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Daniel predicted the nation’s political restoration.
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Haggai and Zechariah, after the Babylonian captivity, exhorted the people in their religious reconstruction.
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Malachi exhorted the people in their social and moral reconstruction, as they awaited the coming of the “sun of righteousness [that] shall rise, with healing in His wings”, (Mal. 4:2).
Conclusion For Lesson 1: