I like Mr. Haggai. And I would like one of his ilk to pop up around Jerusalem. And where I am. Please.
I read what Dummelow has to say on our man. (Dummelow: A
Commentary on the Holy Bible – very old but still good, I reckon.)
I had a problem. Nehemiah kept nagging at me. What was it
that he came back to build? Is this the same task? It has become clear that it
was not the same task. Nehemiah’s mission was to rebuild the walls of
Jerusalem. Haggai’s was to prod the returned folk into forgetting themselves
and building the temple which had been in Jerusalem but been destroyed, the
point being that if they built the temple their own lives would be enhanced.
It seems that the building would be quite modest compared
to the original.
I found this website to be very informative. The writer
compares coming out of Covid with the coming out of the exiles from Persia.
https://wearefaith.org/blog/lessons-from-ezra-nehemiah-and-haggai-and-zechariah-in-this-time/
Joyce Voysey
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