Enduring Lessons from the Very Short Book of Haggai
International | July 11, 2021
If you’re paging through the Bible, right before you make the turn and head into the New Testament, there’s a string of shorter books with funny names and odd references that don’t get talked about a whole lot. These are the minor prophets of the Old Testament.
One of the shortest is Haggai. Coming in at two chapters and less than two pages, Haggai is the story of a prophet whom God uses to tell the Israelites to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Give it a read this Lord’s Day. It won’t take much time, and it has some good lessons.
To understand the context for Haggai, we need to first look back to Ezra. The Bible is arranged not in chronological order but instead by categories of writing. A book of history, Ezra is with the other books of history earlier in the Old Testament. It tells the story of the Israelites returning to the Promised Land after they were held as captives in Babylon….(Excerpts from National Review)