Haggai 2:18-19 KJV
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
It occurred to me that Haggai may have been the most successful of all of the prophets though one of the least known. Haggai's preached to the Jews who had returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem at the end of the Babylonian captivity. The people had not put the emphasis on rebuilding the Temple as they should have and God had withheld His blessing upon them because of it.
Haggai's charge was to stir the people under Zerubbabel to put get to work on the Temple. God was not interested; it seems to me, in the "gaudiness" of the Temple. He did not care that it was ornate, only that it was ready for the people to truly worship Him. Under Haggai's preaching Zerubbabel and Joshua, the high priest, and all the people got busy and restored the Temple.
And God's response to the people was, "from this day I will bless you."
That is great success in the ministry.
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
It occurred to me that Haggai may have been the most successful of all of the prophets though one of the least known. Haggai's preached to the Jews who had returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem at the end of the Babylonian captivity. The people had not put the emphasis on rebuilding the Temple as they should have and God had withheld His blessing upon them because of it.
Haggai's charge was to stir the people under Zerubbabel to put get to work on the Temple. God was not interested; it seems to me, in the "gaudiness" of the Temple. He did not care that it was ornate, only that it was ready for the people to truly worship Him. Under Haggai's preaching Zerubbabel and Joshua, the high priest, and all the people got busy and restored the Temple.
And God's response to the people was, "from this day I will bless you."
That is great success in the ministry.
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