Give Careful Thoughts To Your Ways
Haggai 1:1-15
Key Verse 8
“’Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,’ says the Lord.”
Haggai was a very old prophet appointed by God to minister to the few exiled Jews who had returned to Jerusalem and the promised land. It was prophesied and fulfilled by God that after seventy years in the land of their exile, they would return to rebuild their ruined nation, their ruined city and their temple that was also in ruins. He was a very old prophet compared with his contemporary prophet Zechariah, whom we will be studying as well, because while the Bible refers to Zechariah as a “young man”, we know that Haggai was alive … Read the rest