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On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, this message from the LORD came by Haggai the prophet:

Verse ConceptsAutumnMonth 7Named Prophets Of The Lord

Who among you hath been left that saw this house in its former honour? And what are ye seeing it now? Is it not, compared with it, as nothing in your eyes?

Verse ConceptsMemoriesSurvivors Of IsraelUnimportant ThingsThe First Temple

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;

Verse ConceptsA Short TimeGod ShakingThe Universe DestroyedShort Time Till The EndCatastrophic EventsEarthGoing To HeavenThe Seamovement

On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of the second year of the reign of King Darius, this message from the LORD came to Haggai the prophet:

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Inspiration Of OtMonth 8Named Prophets Of The LordMonthsBeing Gay

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Ask the priests for a ruling.

Verse ConceptsWord Of GodAsking

If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.”

Verse ConceptsFringe Of ClothesTouching Holy ThingsDissent

And Haggai answereth and saith, 'So is this people, and so is this nation before Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and so is every work of their hands, and that which they bring near there -- it is unclean.

Verse ConceptsUnclean Things

And now, lay it, I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsLukewarmnessThinking Aright

Set it, I pray you, to your heart, from this day and onwards, from the twenty and fourth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the temple of Jehovah hath been founded, set it to your heart.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsMonthanniversariesMonth 8Foundations Of BuildingsThinking Aright

Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne -- from this day I bless.'

Verse ConceptsFruitFig treeOlivesUnfruitfulnessVinesGod's Action TomorrowPomegranatesReapingBearing FruitGod Will Bless

This message from the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month:

Verse ConceptsMonth 8Speaking Again

On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, My servant”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you.” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDChosen InstrumentsMinistry, Nature OfRingsSealsServants Of The LordSymbols

In the eighth month of the second year of the reign of Darius, this message from the LORD came to Berechiah's son Zechariah, the grandson of Iddo the prophet:

Verse ConceptsMonthProphecy, Inspiration Of OtWord Of GodMonth 8Named Prophets Of The LordMonths

So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands fordrawing near to GodProphecy, Methods Of OtReformationReturning To GodRevival, Corporate

Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsLearning From The PastImpenitence, Warnings AgainstIndifferencePast, TheEvil WaysNot Like PeopleFathersBeing A Good Father

But did not my words and statutes, which I commanded by my servants the Prophets, touch your forefathers? Upon this, they gave answer and said, 'Like as the LORD of Hosts devised to do unto us, according to our ways and imaginations, even so hath he dealt with us.''"

Verse ConceptsGod Spoke By The ProphetsRepaid For DeedsSigns Of RepentanceGod's Will Be Done

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month (the month Shebat) in the second year of the reign of Darius, this message from the LORD came to Berechiah's son Zechariah, the grandson of Iddo the prophet:

Verse ConceptsMonthMonth 11

And the messenger of Jehovah will answer and say, O Jehovah of armies, how long wilt thou not compassionate Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with whom thou wert very angry this seventy years?

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtSeventyProlonged Afflictions70 To 80 YearsCities In IsraelBefore God ActsGod Without Mercy

Then the angel who was speaking to me told me, "Announce this: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I have a deep concern for Jerusalem, a great concern for Zion.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal Of

So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsMercifulnessPlumb LineThe Second TempleGod Will Show Mercyrebuilding

And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofReinstatementAfflictions, Consolation DuringPlenty Through GodGod Will ComfortPeace And ComfortImmigrantsSpreading The GospelWealth And Prosperityjerusalemzion

Once again I looked and this time I saw four horns.

Verse ConceptsHorns Of Animalsempowerment

At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him

Verse ConceptsAngels, Ot Appearances

and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein;

Verse ConceptsRunning With NewsBoth Men And Animals SavedMany In Israelteenagerjerusalem

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

Verse ConceptsFruitPersecution, Nature OfApple Of The EyeTouching To HarmEyes Cared ForEyes HarmedEyes

But Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebukes you, O Satan! Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you! [Is] this not a stick snatched from the fire?"

Verse Conceptsevil, victory overSatan, As The Enemy Of GodPlucking OutSaved From FireGod Requite Them!rebukingbranding

Then the angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:

Verse ConceptsGod's Orders

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, you will both rule My house and take care of My courts; I will also grant you access among these who are standing here.

Verse ConceptsWalkingEntering The TempleWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsAccess to God

For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua upon one stone are seven eyes; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in one day.

Verse ConceptsengravingArtInscriptionsSeven ThingsOne DayStones As MonumentsGod Atoning

On that day, each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree.” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

Verse ConceptsFig treeInvitationsSittingVinesSitting In Security

"What are you, you great mountain? Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple capstone with shoutings of 'Grace! Grace!' because of this."

Verse ConceptsCapstoneDuplicating WordsMountains RemovedWhat Is This?Beauty Of ThingsArt Of CelebratingGraceHindrances

Then this message from the LORD came to me again:

"The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsFoundations Of BuildingsGod Sending ProphetsMan's Work Finishedconstructionfinishing

And he said to me, "This [is] the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and [likewise] everyone who swears [falsely] has gone unpunished according to it.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSwearing Oaths FalselyThe Curse Of The LawSwearing

"I am bringing this about," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "The curse will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who lies in my name. The curse will remain in his house until that house has been completely destroyed, right down to its timber and stones."

Verse ConceptsSwearing Oaths FalselyBuilding Stones RejectedHouses Under AttackWood And StoneSwearingflyingthieves

And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, "{Please look up}! See what this [is] going out."

Verse ConceptsLooking And Seeing

And I asked, "What [is] it?" And he said, "This [is] a basket going out. And he said, "This [is] their iniquity throughout all the earth.

Verse ConceptsBaskets, SymbolsAll Have Sinned

And behold, there was lifted up a round plate of lead; and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningWomen In ProphecyTalents

And he said, "This [is] Wickedness!" And he thrust her [back down] into the basket, and threw the lead cover on top of it.

Verse ConceptsSealing ThingsPutting Things DownThe Entrance Of Sinwickednessweight

Once more I looked, and this time I saw four chariots emerging from between two mountains of bronze.

Verse ConceptsVisions And Dreams In ScriptureBrassHeavenly ChariotsThings Like BronzeTwo Other ThingsFour Other Things

Then this message from the LORD came to me:

You are to tell him: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Here is a man whose name is Branch; He will branch out from His place and build the Lord’s temple.

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For ChristMessianic PropheciesSprouting PlantsSproutingRebuilding The Temple

And they that are far off shall come and build at the temple of Jehovah: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GoddiligenceDiligence, Examples OfWeights And Measures, DistancesThe Perfect TempleGod Sending ProphetsPeople From Far AwayRebuilding The Temple

Then this message from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies came to me:

"Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, and say, 'When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, now this seventy years, did ye fast unto me?

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsMonth 5Month 770 To 80 YearsFasting RegularlyHow To FastNot For The SakeFastingFasting And Prayer

Isn't this what the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets, when a prosperous Jerusalem was inhabited, as were its surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah?'"

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In IsraelInhabitationSaying The Same ThingsGod Spoke By The ProphetsThe ShephelahRevelation Through Prophets

This message from the LORD came to Zechariah again:

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfCompassion, In ChristiansGrace, In Human RelationshipsMercy, HumanMercy, Response To God'sOppression, God's Attitude ToThe Need For Mercy

This is this message from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies:

“The Lord of Hosts says this: I am extremely jealous for Zion; I am jealous for her with great wrath.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousy

This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.

Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemNames And Titles For The ChurchGod's TruthGod Lives In Jerusalemjerusalemzion

This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfFeeblenessHope For Old PeopleSitting In SecurityUsing RoadsWalking With A StaffAgejerusalem

Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '[Even] if it seems impossible {to the remnant} of this people in those days, should it also seem impossible {to me}?' {declares} Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsAnticipationSurvivors ThreatenedEasy For GodHard Tasks

This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country;

Verse ConceptseastWestEast And WestGod Wants To Save All

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsStrength Of PeopleThe Second TempleFoundations Of BuildingsBe Strong!Rebuilding The TempleStaying StrongFinishing Strongrebuilding

But now {I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days},' {declares} Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors FavouredHistory Of Nations

'For [there will be] a sowing of peace; the vine will give its fruit, and the soil will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these [things].

Verse ConceptsCropsFruitfulness, NaturalAgriculture, Growth From GoddewSeedVinesLand ProducingSurvivors FavouredTime Of PeaceAgriculturePlanting SeedsSeedsBlessings And ProsperitySowing Seeds

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:

Verse ConceptsGod Will Bring Harm

so I have decided at this time to do good things for Jerusalem and for the house of Judah. So stop being afraid.

Verse ConceptsGod Doing GoodGod's Plans

Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsFalse Witnesses, Defined AsPromises, HumanEvil PlansSin, And God's CharacterGod Hating Things

Once again this message from the LORD come to me:

This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.

Verse ConceptsFeastsFasting, Nature OfJoy, Of IsraelPeace, In Christian LivingMonth 4Month 5Month 7Month 10Fasting RegularlyFuture Rejoicing In GodLoving GoodMonthsFastingCelebrationFasting And Prayer

This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come,

Verse ConceptsThe Nations Before God

This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of GodClothingJews, TheLanguagesLast DaysGod With YouGoing TogetherTen PeopleGraspingJerusalem In Millennial Kingdom

A declaration: this message from the LORD in the land of Hadrach, with Damascus its confederate, because the eyes of humanity will look to the LORD, along with those of all the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWord Of GodGod Seeing All PeopleGod OpposingGod Saves From Sin And Deathdamascus

This shall Ashkelon see, and be afraid. Gaza shall be very sorry, so shall Ekron also, because her hope is come of confusion. For the king of Gaza shall perish; and at Ashkelon shall no man dwell.

Verse ConceptsAgony, God's JudgmentdrynessHope, Of The WickedHope, Nature OfPessimismEmpty CitiesPhysical PainFear Will ComeWithout HopePleasurableness

I will set a garrison around my Temple, to hinder those who might come and go, and to guard against oppressors who intend to invade; for I have taken note of this with my eyes."

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineWatchfulness, DivineGod Seeing Their AfflictionGod Sending His Son

Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodHope, Results OfRestoring NationsGod Being Our RefugeDouble PortionsHope In Hard TimesHope And FaithTragedy

For, the household gods, have spoken vanity, and, the diviners, have had vision of falsehood, and, deceitful dreams, do they relate, vainly, do they console, - for this reason, have they moved about like a flock, they suffer ill, because there is no shepherd.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFutilityencouragement, examples ofdiscouragementGuidance, Need For God'sHousehold GodsPeace, Human Destruction OfRestlessnessSheepSorcery And MagicVisionsDivinationWanderersMisleading DreamsProphesying LiesNo ComfortDreams And False Prophets

"The people of Ephraim will become like mighty soldiers; they will be glad, like those who have wine. Their children will see this and rejoice; their hearts will find joy in the Lord.

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceRenewed HeartRejoicingEffect Of WineChildren BlessedFuture Rejoicing In God

I will strengthen them in Yahweh,
and they will march in His name—
this is Yahweh’s declaration.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthIn God's Namefaith and strength

This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated AnimalsPasturing The Flock

And Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter," {this noble price} [at] which I was valued by them!" So I took the thirty silver [shekels] and I threw them to the potter [in] the house of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsPotterProphecies Concerning ChristExpensivePrice Set On Individuals

The Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment [of a shepherd, but this time] of a foolish shepherd.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfThe Work Of FoolsStock Keeping

Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, 'You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the Lord.' Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.

Verse ConceptsPiercingsFalse Prophets DenouncedKilling Sons And DaughtersFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersFake Friends

"He will say, "I am no mere prophet. A servant of mankind am I, because a man dedicated to this have I been from my youth.'

Verse ConceptsPloughmenWork From YouthProphets Who Were Not SentAgricultureFarming

I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”

Verse ConceptsFaith, Testing OfdrossCalling upon GodGoldSilverTestingAnswers By FireAnswered PromisesRefining Influences Of AfflictionAfflictions As Blessings In DisguiseOne ThirdFire Of JudgementGod Will AnswerGod Testing PeopleThings Like GoldThings Like SilverGod Answers PrayerYou Are Our GodTestspressuremold

This shall be that special day which is known unto the LORD: neither day nor night, but about the evening time it shall be light.

Verse ConceptsUnceasingContinual GoodLight In The WorldDay Or NightBeing Unique

And this will be the plague [with] which Yahweh will strike all the peoples that fight against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they [are] standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Verse ConceptsPeople RottingSocketsEyes HarmedDiseaseSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

{Like this plague} will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, and the donkey, and every kind of animal in those camps.

Verse ConceptsMulesAnimals, religious role ofLoss Of Donkeys

If the kindred of Egypt go not up, and come not, it shall not rain upon them neither. This shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all Heathen, that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Verse ConceptsLack Of Rain

This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

Verse Conceptscelebrating

“I have loved you,” says the Lord.

But you ask: “How have You loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchGod Hating PeopleGod's Love For Us

If Edom says, "We are shattered, but we will return and rebuild [the] ruins," Yahweh of hosts says this: "They may build, but I will tear down; and they will be called a territory of wickedness, and the people [with] whom Yahweh is angry forever."

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationCrushingLossArchaeologyEternal JudgementGod Angry With The Nationsbordersclosure

Your eyes will see [this], and you will say, "Yahweh is great beyond the borders of Israel."

Verse ConceptsLooking At God's Worksborders

"A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, 'How have we made light of your name?'

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofHonorProphecy, Methods Of OtRespect, For Human BeingsServants, GoodStatusHonouring ParentsServants Of PeopleHonour The HonourableRespectRespecting ParentsLoving Your Parentsclosurereverencehonour

In this: that ye offer unclean bread upon mine altar. And if ye will say, 'Wherein have we offered any unclean thing unto thee?' In this that ye say: the altar of the LORD is not to be regarded.

Verse ConceptsDefilement, Ceremonial CausesTablesInfidelity To GodUnclean SpiritsUnclean Animals

So then, {implore the favor of God} so that he will be gracious to us. "{This is what you have done}. {Will he show favor to any of you}?" says Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsWelcomed By GodPray For UsSeeking The Favour Of God

And you say, 'Look! [This is] a weariness,' and you sniff [with disdain] at it," says Yahweh of hosts. "And you bring [the] stolen, the lame, and the one that is sick--[this] you bring as the offering! Should I {accept it} from your hand?" says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsNosesSick AnimalsWeary Of God

"Then you will know that I have sent to you this command, that my covenant with Levi {continues}," says Yahweh of hosts.

Verse ConceptsDesign Of MarriageCovenant Made At Sinai

"My covenant with him was [one of] life and peace, and I gave them to him. [This required] reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe {before} my name.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of ReverenceReverence, And God's NatureGod Giving LifeIndividuals Fearing GodCovenant Made At Sinaicovenant

May Yahweh cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this, [the] one who is awake and [who] answers, and [the one who] brings an offering to Yahweh of hosts!

Verse ConceptsJacob, The Patriarch

And this you do {as well}: [you] cover the altar of Yahweh [with] tears, [with] weeping and [with] groaning, because he {no longer regards the offering} or accepts [it] [with] favor from your hand.

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of WorshipTearsThe Altar Of The LordNot Pleasing GodFake Friends

No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, amongst believersHusbandsLove, In RelationshipsMarriage, Purpose OfMonogamyUnity, God's Goal OfWivesDesign Of MarriageYouthful DevotionResidueRaising ChildrenGodly WomanSeedsRespecting Your Body

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