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themes for Consideration » The disappointment of the worldly life
Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways. You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.
Covetousness » Instances of » Some jews » Building » Houses
Is it time for you to dwell in your roofed and covered houses, while this house is desolate? Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways. You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. read more.
Then Jehovah said: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring lumber, and rebuild my house. I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, said Jehovah. You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.
Then Jehovah said: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring lumber, and rebuild my house. I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, said Jehovah. You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.
Fear of God » Conspicuous instances of those who feared » Levi, in receiving the covenant of life and peace
Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways.
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Lukewarmness » Figurative
However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.
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What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
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They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. They do not know me, says Jehovah.
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The peoples hearts are deceitful. They must suffer for their sins. Jehovah will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.
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Watch and pray continually that you do not enter into temptation!
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You have not gone up into the gaps (broken places) of the wall around the house of Israel. You did not build the wall to stand in the battle on the day of Jehovah.
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I, the Lord Jehovah am furious with you. You were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted.
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Jehovah (YHWH) of Hosts said to Haggai: These people say that this is not the right time to rebuild the Temple.
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Is it time for you to dwell in your roofed and covered houses, while this house is desolate? Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways. You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. read more.
Then Jehovah said: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring lumber, and rebuild my house. I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, said Jehovah. You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house. It is because of you that the sky above you withholds the dew, and the earth below withholds its produce. I brought drought on the land and its hills, grain fields, vineyards, and olive orchards. Yes drought on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.
Then Jehovah said: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring lumber, and rebuild my house. I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, said Jehovah. You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house. It is because of you that the sky above you withholds the dew, and the earth below withholds its produce. I brought drought on the land and its hills, grain fields, vineyards, and olive orchards. Yes drought on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.
Can you see what has happened to you, Jehovah asked, before you started to rebuild the Temple? You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.
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Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain that are at the point of death: for I have not found your works perfect (completed) before God.
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I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. Because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Temple » The second » Resumed
Jehovah of hosts said: Let your hands be strong you who hear these words from the mouth of the prophets. These are words from the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of Hosts was laid. It was for the purpose of building the Temple.
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So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.
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Jehovah (YHWH) of Hosts said to Haggai: These people say that this is not the right time to rebuild the Temple. Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet. He said: Is it time for you to dwell in your roofed and covered houses, while this house is desolate? read more.
Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways. You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. Then Jehovah said: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring lumber, and rebuild my house. I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, said Jehovah. You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.
Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways. You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. Then Jehovah said: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring lumber, and rebuild my house. I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, said Jehovah. You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.
Can you see what has happened to you, Jehovah asked, before you started to rebuild the Temple?
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The Second Temple » The jews reproved for not building
It was the second year that Darius was king of Persia. Jehovah spoke through Haggai the prophet in the sixth month, on the first day of the month. The message was delivered to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and to the High Priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak. Jehovah (YHWH) of Hosts said to Haggai: These people say that this is not the right time to rebuild the Temple. Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet. He said: read more.
Is it time for you to dwell in your roofed and covered houses, while this house is desolate? Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways.
Is it time for you to dwell in your roofed and covered houses, while this house is desolate? Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways.
Thoughtfulness » Themes for consideration, by the spiritual mind » The disappointment of the worldly life
Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways. You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.