Haggai-I've Started So I'll Finish

Introduction

In the book of Ezra we read about the people who returned from exile in Babylon, back to Jerusalem and were now under the leadership of Zerubbabel. Their work was to re-build the temple. Ezra tells us that their had been opposition to the building so that fourteen years later we discover from Haggai that the temple foundation is covered with weeds rather than walls. Instead of completing the house of God, people were busy building their own homes and careers. Into the problem walks Haggai, to exhort the people to put God’s work first. The halfhearted obedience they showed in the work they should of been doing meant that God’s Temple was not finished and they had not been blessed. v5-6, v9. The people had started the work but they had not finished it, their intentions were good but they lacked the obedience and character to complete the task.

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