“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘These people say, “The time has not come that the Lord’s house (temple) should be rebuilt.”’”

Then Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, Jehozadak's son Joshua the high priest, and all the rest of the people obeyed the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.

Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.

Pay attention from now on to how things used to be before one stone had been laid upon another in the Temple of the LORD.