THE COMMAND TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE
HAGGAI - 1, 1-12
In the second year of Darius the king [of Persia], on the first day of the sixth month (Aug 29, 520 B.C.),
The word of the LORD came by “Haggai the prophet” to “Zerubbabel” the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to "Joshua” the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘These people say, “The time has not come that the LORD’S house temple should be rebuilt.’ then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, “Is it time for you yourselves to live in your expensive paneled houses while this house [of the LORD] lies in ruins?” Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, “Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!
THE LORD HAS WITHHELD HIS BLESSING
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1. You have planted much, but you harvest little.
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2. You eat, but you do not have enough.
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3. You drink, but you do not have enough to be intoxicated.
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4. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm enough.
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5. And he who earns wages earns them just to put them in a bag with holes in it.
Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct! Go up to the hill country, bring lumber and rebuild My house (temple), that I may be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord [accepting it as done for My glory].
REASON GOD HAS CURSED
“You look for much [harvest], but it comes to little; and even when you bring that home, I blow it away. Why?” says the LORD of hosts.
“Because of My house(Temple), which lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house eager to enjoy it. Therefore, because of you [that is, your sin and disobedience] the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its produce. I called for a drought on the land and the hill country, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”
THE LEADERS AND REMNANT OBEY
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people [who had returned from exile], listened carefully and obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, since the LORD their God had sent him. And the people reverently feared the LORD.
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