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The Background Foundation matters. Today we journey to a time when a call to action is being issued to the remnant. The Cyrus decree (539 B.C.) had been issued, the remnant about 50,000 Jews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple and the city according to Ezra and the work had started but stalled,…

Text : Haggai 1:1-15 Back Story In 586 BC, the Babylonian army destroyed the city of Jerusalem, along with the temple built by King Solomon. The surviving populace is exiled to Babylon. Fifty years later (537 BC) the Persians conquered the Babylonians and passed a decree allowing the Jews to return to…

12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord . 13 Then Haggai, the messenger…

10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, 11 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law: 12 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or…

1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 ‘Who is…

10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, 11 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law: 12 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or…

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people…

Introduction to the book of Haggai

Haggai

God’s people must be sure that His priorities are first, lest they neglect the place of His presence among them.

Introduction and Background When the foundations of the temple were laid in Jerusalem in the year 536, the younger men shouted for joy while the older men wept (Ezra 3:8–13). Although Haggai probably had seen Solomon’s temple in its glory (Hag. 2:3), he was undoubtedly among those who expressed joy,…

Sermon From this common text, I feel that God can provide fresh revelation… WHAT IS A HOUSE? One question sticks to my mind, what is a House? Some of you may define a house simply as somewhere that you live. You do so because you define a house through the lens of your past experiences. Then even others…

Haggai: Introduction-Date and Historical Background

Haggai 2:6-7 “For thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts. We now come to season…

Haggai: Haggai 1:3-The Prophet Haggai Emphasizes with the Remnant of Judah that His Message Originates from the Lord

Haggai 2:10-The Identification of the Date, Origin and the Human Agency of the Third Message

Haggai 2:20-The Lord Communicates a Second Message to Haggai on the Twenty-Fourth Day of the Ninth Month

The purpose of the book of Haggai was to persuade the remnant of Judah to finish rebuilding the temple in order that the God of Israel could dwell with them as a result of worshipping Him. Almost seventy years had passed since the city of Jerusalem and Solomon’s temple had been destroyed by the third…

Haggai: Introduction-Haggai’s Use of the Writings of the Prophets Before Him

Haggai: Introduction-Authorship and Recipients

Rebuilding God’s people have been in exile for 70 years and are now, through His sovereignty, able to go back to Jerusalem and begin to rebuild their lives there. They began by building the alter of the Lord, the center of their worship of God. Placing Him at the center of their lives and the center…

An overview of the book of Haggai and his encouragement to the people to rebuild the temple as a type for us as we build the temple in our lives

Haggai: Haggai 1:1-Identification of the Date, Origin, Agency and Recipients of the First Message

Outline of Book and its purpose and relevance for today.