A New Name (8 of 8)
Series: Getting Back to What Matters Most
Wyman Richardson
Haggai 2:20-23
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The book of Haggai ends in a way that the modern reader might find surprising. It ends by focusing on the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel. In a certain sense, this is not surprising. After all, Zerubbabel is mentioned in the first verse of the book. However, he is mentioned alongside Haggai and Joshua. In fact, throughout this book, he is mentioned but always alongside Joshua the priest. This is the first time that Zerubbabel becomes the sole focus of a divine word. This makes Haggai 2:20-23 unique, but it is what is said to Zerubbabel that makes it truly surprising.
Yes, what is said is surprising, but it is also very important...and relevant...and ''perspective-giving'' to the entire book. In fact, these final words to Zerubbabel help us understand with shocking clarity just what is happening in this book and in Israel's returning to its temple construction.
Through Zerubbabel, God shows how He can give a new name to those with a bad name.
To understand the significance of what is said in these verses, we must first understand from whence Zerubbabel came. He did not have, to put it mildly, a good name. In fact, Zerubabbel's grandfather, Coniah (or Jeconiah), was singled out as the particular object of God's wrath in Jeremiah 22. Listen:
24 ''As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.'' 28 Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel n ...
Series: Getting Back to What Matters Most
Wyman Richardson
Haggai 2:20-23
Read Haggai 2:20-23
The book of Haggai ends in a way that the modern reader might find surprising. It ends by focusing on the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel. In a certain sense, this is not surprising. After all, Zerubbabel is mentioned in the first verse of the book. However, he is mentioned alongside Haggai and Joshua. In fact, throughout this book, he is mentioned but always alongside Joshua the priest. This is the first time that Zerubbabel becomes the sole focus of a divine word. This makes Haggai 2:20-23 unique, but it is what is said to Zerubbabel that makes it truly surprising.
Yes, what is said is surprising, but it is also very important...and relevant...and ''perspective-giving'' to the entire book. In fact, these final words to Zerubbabel help us understand with shocking clarity just what is happening in this book and in Israel's returning to its temple construction.
Through Zerubbabel, God shows how He can give a new name to those with a bad name.
To understand the significance of what is said in these verses, we must first understand from whence Zerubbabel came. He did not have, to put it mildly, a good name. In fact, Zerubabbel's grandfather, Coniah (or Jeconiah), was singled out as the particular object of God's wrath in Jeremiah 22. Listen:
24 ''As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.'' 28 Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel n ...
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