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HAGGAI

By: Steve Negley

Posted: March 25, 2024

Category: Daily Devotional

The minor prophet Haggai book records a very specific event and time period in ancient Israel history, the rebuilding of the Temple in 520 BCE. Scholars are able to note this time due to the specific events recorded in larger ancient world history of a nation like Persia and the actual rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. Haggai encourages and instructs the local leaders to complete the Temple. It is what God wants and most rare for prophets, the people respond as commanded.

Haggai 1:12-13

12Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua 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 the prophet Haggai, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the Lord. 13Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord’s message, saying, I am with you, says the Lord.”

Prayer

God of eternal hope, sometimes I stand in the midst of rubble and dust off my life and wonder how you will transform such ruins. Yet you come and you call me into a future more breathtaking and beautiful than I could ever create on my own. Thank you for such Holy Spirit re-imagining power and strength to rebuild me.