Andrew Hill is helpful in explaining Haggai 2:23 and how ultimately Zerubbabel pointed forward to Jesus, the Greater Zerubbabel. Haggai 2:23:“23 On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen […]
One way that God motivates believers do what is right is by promising to bless their obedience. This truth is seen in the book of Haggai. In chapter 1, God speaks through Haggai to a disobedient people—a people who were meant to rebuild the temple, but for the previous 15-18 years have instead focused on […]
I like this quote I found on John Calvin’s commentary on Haggai 2:6 about God “Shaking the nations”: He then adds, I will move all the nations, and they shall come. After having mentioned the heaven and the earth, he now shows that he would arrest the attention of all mortals, so as to turn […]
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Andrew Hill on Haggai 2
I found commentator Andrew Hill on Haggai 2:1-9 to be helpful. The promised ‘latter glory’ of the temple finds its fulfillment in Jesus Christ: “The true glory of the Second Temple that Haggai calls the people to build will not be the gold and silver of the nations (v. 8). Rather, the stunning glory of […]
A God Powerful Enough to Change Us (1:11-15) 11 And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.” 12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the […]
A God who is With His People (1:13) 13 Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD’s message, “I am with you, declares the LORD.” As God exposes the sin of Israel and calls them rebuild the temple, He also gives them a promise of His presence. In 1:13 […]
A God Who Calls Us to Good Works (1:8) 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD. God calls his people to good works. We are not saved on the basis of our good […]
A God who Disciplines Us and Withholds Blessings (1:9-11) 9 You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10 […]
The Beautiful Church and the More Beautiful Church “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” (Ecc 3:11a) The church is beautiful. Clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, she bears the splendor the God-Man. Filled with the Holy Spirit, her members display love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Marked by […]
A God Who Exposes Our Sin (1:3-6) 3 Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? 5 Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 6 […]
