📖 The Book of Haggai
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Put God first — build the Temple and see his blessing.
Who wrote Haggai?
Precisely dated to the second year of Darius (520 BC).
Why Haggai was written
Haggai calls the returned exiles to stop neglecting the rebuilding of the Temple and to put God's house before their own, promising that when they do, God will bless them and fill the new house with glory.
Outline of Haggai
- 11: The call to rebuild; the people obey
- 22: Three oracles — encouragement, holiness, and the promise of shaking and glory
Key verses
How Haggai points to Christ
The 'glory of this latter house' greater than Solomon's (2:9) is fulfilled when Jesus, the Son of God, enters Herod's Temple — the final expansion of the Second Temple. He is the greater glory the prophet promised.
How Haggai begins
1In 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,
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