Haggai 2:1-2

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people.

From Background Notes [BN] for September 29^th & 30^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What God does through this outburst of prophetic utterance is to place the small, seemingly insignificant lives of little Judah within the larger context of God’s purposes for the whole world.

Sometimes we become so wrapped up in our own affairs that we forget that the God who loves us and whom we serve has bigger plans than our own. One main idea found in the prophets during and after the exile is God’s role as King of the nations and not only of little Judah. According to these prophets, God will make a new heaven and a new earth:

"Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy (Isaiah 65:17-18). [BN, 9]

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