Well, doesn't that just show how hectic life can get sometimes? I hadn't realised that I'd not posted since Sunday...... Anyhow, having finished Zephaniah, it's time to move onto Haggai, who was prophet born during the exile in Babylon. He returned to Jerusalem when King Cyrus of Medo-Persia gave permission. And how could that not be the hand of God at work? I mean, what king usually lets his prisoners, people taken from a captured land, return to their own land to rebuild it? It's asking for trouble!
Anyhow, Haggai helped encouraged the Jews when rebuilding, by preaching the word of God. Now this might sound a very strange way to encourage people - after all, who works better when listening to a dull and dry sermon? But i this instance, I bet Haggai was encouraging them with all the various prophecies about only being in exile 70 years, returning to Jerusalem, God being with them, the coming of the Messiah, and it was probably anything but dry and dusty. It actually convicted the Jews of the need to turn to back God and to forsake their old ways as they saw the power of God at work in their lives.
Anyhow, Haggai helped encouraged the Jews when rebuilding, by preaching the word of God. Now this might sound a very strange way to encourage people - after all, who works better when listening to a dull and dry sermon? But i this instance, I bet Haggai was encouraging them with all the various prophecies about only being in exile 70 years, returning to Jerusalem, God being with them, the coming of the Messiah, and it was probably anything but dry and dusty. It actually convicted the Jews of the need to turn to back God and to forsake their old ways as they saw the power of God at work in their lives.
This is only a short book, two chapters long, but there is such a lot in it!
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