In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.
Zerubbabel and Joshua were tasked with rebuilding the temple, the house of the Lord after the Jews returned from Babylonian captivity. The work had been challenged and the enthusiasm of the people had waned. For the most part, they had lost interest in the house of the Lord. God brought the prophets to reinvigorate the work.
Zerubbabel and Joshua were getting input from two concerned but very different sources.
- On the one hand, there was the prophet
- On the other was the people.
The Bible very specifically says that the Word of the Lord came, not through the will of the people, but from the prophet. The pressure certainly came from the people, work would surely have needed the cooperation of the people. But the word of the Lord, His will, was not to be found in the people but in the prophet. God spoke to Zerubbabel and Joshua. God even spoke directly to them. God spoke to them through the prophet.
So many people miss the Word of God and the will of God because they are listening to the people and not to their preacher. It may even be they have so set their lives that they have no preacher to whom to listen.
It’s so important that men and women repent of this. Return to the Lord by returning to church and by returning to the hearing and heeding of preaching.
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Haggai 1:1-2 (KJV) Where to Hear God’s Word and Will
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