Hag 2:21 The first message that Haggai received from God on this day was addressed to all the people, but this second message is only addressed to Zerubbabel the governor. That God will shake “heaven and earth” indicates that everything will change. God will execute a divine judgment on foreign kingdoms which will result in them losing their kingdoms and …
Haggai 1:1-11 – The Command to Rebuild the Temple
Hag 1:1 King Darius was the Persian king who ruled over large parts of the Middle East, including Judah and Jerusalem. To be precise, the date is August 29 in 520 BC. The background to Haggai’s prophecies can be found 66 years earlier. The Jewish people, after a devastating defeat in war with the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, have been carried …