1 2 3/17/17 d) But the months are based on the Jewish religious calendar, April being the first Haggai 1-2 month. e) Cyrus had decreed the first return in 538 The prophet Haggai is the tenth Minor Prophet but the B.C. fulfilling prophesy. Jer. 25:12; Ezra first post-captivity prophet, followed by Zachariah & 1:1 Malachi. 2) The word of the LORD came by Haggai. a) The word of the LORD refers to Divne There are three post-captivity historical books which revelation about the knowledge, will and will complement as well as supplement this period; purposes o God. Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. b) This is Yahweh, Who had made a covenant with Israel on Mount Sinai. The book of Daniel will also shed some light since he c) The chosen insturment, as the mouth prophesied at Babylon through Nebuchadnezzar, piece of Yahweh was Haggai “Chaggay”, Belshazzar, Cyrus and Darius the Medo-Persian the prophet whose name means festive. kings. 2) The prophetic message was to be addressed * But in particular the book of Ezra for Haggai’s to two individuals. prophesies fit into chapter 5 of Ezra. a) To Zerubabbel “Zerubbabel”, that means sown on Babylon, indicating he was born 1:1-2 The confrontation of God over the people’s in Babylon. indifference over the building of the temple. 1)) Shealtiel means I have asked of God”. Ezra 3:2, 8; 5:2; Neh. 12:1 1:1 The introduction of the prophecy. * Pediah was his father and Shealtiel 1) The date of the first prophecy is recorded as his uncle, possibly through a Leverate the second year of King Darius. marriage because Jeremiah said he a) Sept. 1, 520 B.C. (Aug. 29?), Darius would be childless, like Boaz in the Hystaspes 521-486 B.C. book of Ruth. 1Chron. 3:17-19; Deut. b) This is not the Darius of the days of 25:5-10; Jer. 22:30 Daniel. 2)) He was the grandson of Jehoiachin, c) The dating at this point is no longer by also named Coniah, a descendant of Jewish kings for the “Time of the David through King Jehoiakim. Gentiles” had begun with Babylon. Dan. 1Chron. 3:17-19; 16:3-17; 2Kings 2; Lk. 21:24 24:15; Matt. 1:12 3 4 3)) Zerubabbel was the governor of 1)) Perhaps when there would be no Judah appointed by Cyrus. Ezra 5:14 more opposition? b) To Joshua. 2)) Or maybe they were gripped with fear 1)) The son of Jehozadak of the Samarians that brought the “y@howtsadaq”, means Yahweh is work to a hault? righteous. * Everyone is to be involved in the 2)) Joshua was the high priest, the Lord’s work, the convenient time is grandson of the high priest Hilkiah, now. his father was Seraiah the high priest. 1Chron. 6:15 1:3-11 The rebuke of the people by God. 3)) He was of the house of Aaron. 1:3-4 The people had become more interested 1:2 The indictment of the people by God. in their own houses than the house of God. 1) The one speaking to the people was the 1) God spoke through Haggai. vs. 3 LORD of host, the Captains of the armies of 2) God exposed the people’s motives and self- heave. centered comfort, rather than being * Haggai uses this title 14 times, Zechariah concerned for their spiritual life. vs. 4 will used it 53 times. a) The word of the LORD is presented in a 2) God quoted what the people were saying rehtorical in the form of sarcasm, “Is it about being involved in God’s work. time for you yourselves to dwell in your a) The people had become indifferent and paneled houses, and this temple to lie in complacent about spiritual things. ruins?” * Artaxerxes ceased the work of Cyrus 1)) The only correct answer is NO! decree by the false accusations of the 2)) The contrast is emphatic and Samaritans, but it really didn’t purposeful! prohibit the building of the temple b) The phrase paneled houses “caphan” only the city. Ezra 4:21 indicate the added extravegance and b) The suggestion is that the people were luxury the people blessed themselves dicussing wheather the starting date for with, while the temple lay n ruins. the end of the captivity was 606 or 586 1)) Jermeniah charged the people with B.C? their high living. Jer. 22:14 c) The people were waiting for a more convenient time. 5 6 2)) Solomon spent 13 years building his a) Consider your ways is an accusation and own house, 11 for the temple. 1Kings call to examine their comfortable concern 7:1, 3, 7 about their own houses and their careless c) The implication was that their apathy in concern about the house of God, so that rebuilding the temple had nothing to do they repent. with their inability or oppression, but b) Literally, set your heart on your ways, a rather with their indiference and call to self-examination of motives and unwillingness. deeds. 1)) They lack purpose of heart. Dan. 1:8 * The 70 years were up. Jer. 25:11; Zech. 2)) Their comfort became their 1:12 condemnation. 2) The evidence of God’s disapproval over 3)) Notice the Samaritans bothered them their disobedience is the futility of their self in the rebuilding in the days of centered efferts in five areas, given in pairs. Nehemiah for the house of the Lord, vs. 6 but they didn’t bother them as they a) Their reaping of their fields had been built their own houses. megar, “You have sown much, and bring 4)) Solomon spent seven years in in little”, placing greater presure the next building the Lord’s house but thirteen year of harves. vs. 6a-b years building his own house. 1Kings b) Their nourishment was insufficient, “You 6:38; 7:1 eat, but do not have enough”, producing 3) The people in the church are no different. unhealthiness, weak and sickly. vs. 6c-d a) Some neglect church, until their children c) Their drink was unstimulating, “You are grown. drink, but you are not filled with drink”, b) Some neglect church, until they get a the fermentation did not allow them to home. become inebrated, being weak. vs. 6e c) Some neglect church, until they get out of d) Their clothing was inadaquet in quality, debt. “You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm”, material being scarse. vs. 6f-g 1:5-6 The people were called by God to e) Their earning did not let them get ahead, examine how they were living. “And he who earns wages, Earns wages 1) The One calling them to examine their lives to put into a bag with holes”, inflation was the Captain of the armies of heaven, the and expenses. vs. h-i LORD of host. vs. 5 7 8 * Their priorities for living were wrong, 1)) So the people could seek and worship God was not first! Matt. 6:33 God. 2)) For the Temple was the center of 1:7-8 The people were to build the house of national life. God. 3) The authority. vs. 8c 1) The One calling them to examine their lives a) The covenant God, “says the LORD.” for the second time was the Captain of the b) The One who placed and delivered them armies of heaven, the LORD of host. vs. 7 from Egypt, as well as Babylon. a) Consider your ways is for the second time stated, accusing them again of living for 1:9-11 The people were given the correlation self, while neglecting God. between their disobedience to build the house b) Consider your ways is a call to examine of God and meager lives is now plainly stated. how God withheld the abundance and 1) The accusation, “You looked for much, but prosperity, but they hadn’t seen the indeed it came to little; and when you relationship between their lack and their brought it home, I blew it away.” vs. 9a-c disobedience to God and needed to 2) The reason, “Why?” says the LORD of repent. vs. 9-11 hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, 1)) God used this as discipline and turn while every one of you runs to his own them. Amos 4:6-13; Hos 4:10; Mic. house.” vs. 9d-f 6:14, “Lev. 26:26: Deut. 28:38” 3) The manner, “Therefore the heavens above 2)) This deals with obedience and you withhold the dew, and the earth prosperity. Joel 2:19; Mal. 3:10 withholds its fruit.” vs, 10 2) The proclamation. vs. 8a * Heaven as brass and the earth as iron. a) They were to gather building matrial, “Go 4) The Divine discipline, again given in pairs. up to the mountains and bring wood and vs. 11 build the temple.” vs. 8a a) God withheld the rain, “For I called for a b) This was an imperative command, not a drought on the land and the mountains.” suggstion. vs. 11a 3) The purpose. vs. 8b b) God bringing the draught affected their a) That God might take pleasure in the harvest, comfort and finances, “on the work. grain and the new wine and the oil, on b) That God might be glorified. whatever the ground brings forth.” vs. 11b-c 9 10 c) God through the draught lessened the a) This is one of the shortest messages of the amount of grass for grazing and the work Bible, only 7 words in English, 4 in to be mor laborious, “on men and Hebrew.