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Haggai (520-516 B.C.) "haggay" (festal)
In 520 B.C. eighteen years after the Jews had returned from exile in Babylon, Haggai urged them to forget their own interests and finish rebuilding the temple.Haggai 1:7-8
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways! "Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified," says the LORD.God's love is also illustrated in Hosea's willingness to buy back his wife after her harlotry had led her to be sold at the slave block.
Haggai, along with the prophet Zechariah, urged them on. Within 4 years it was completed. They became courageous in the work and the Lord told them to mark this day and to watch from now on because they were obeying and His blessings were gonna come:
Haggai 2:18-19Haggai also spoke of the Messiah and
the future glories of the Messiah's kingdom with Jesus present on the earth and
the gentiles flowing to Him:
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.
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