sooda
Veteran Member
A lot of these prophets spoke of the broken covenant with Israel and the coming Messiah,
I put it to you the guys who wrote this lived in the latter part of the Roman empire, or shortly
thereafter. After all, how could they have known about the end of Israel and the Messiah?
Some guys, such as Isaiah and Ezekiel, spoke about a SECOND RETURN of the Jews to
their homeland. These guys lived back in the 1950's or 1960's.
The return of the exiles to Judah, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, was accomplished in three main stages. The first and main party returns with Zerubbabel 538 BC. They rebuild the temple. A second party returns with Ezra about 80 years later. They make spiritual and religious restoration and reform. A third wave returns with Nehemiah in 445 BC.