Your Best Life Now (4 of 5)
Series: Consider Your Ways
Tim Badal
Haggai 2:10-19
Please turn in your Bibles to Haggai 2. If you don’t know where the Book of Haggai is, go to your table of contents. That is the best way to find it because Haggai is one of the shortest books in the entire Old Testament. We’ve been in this series for the last three weeks looking at the Book of Haggai under the heading ‘‘Consider Your Ways: Choosing God’s Business over Ours.’’ I know it is summertime and some of you have been in and out for this series. So I will give a short update on what we’ve studied over the last three weeks. We have learned much about this obscure time in Israel’s history. Over these weeks, we’ve come to know that Haggai’s time was one of return and restoration for Israel. After nearly 70 years under the rule and captivity of the Babylonian Empire, the people of God were not released when the Babylonians were captured and overtaken by the Persian Empire. God then moved in the Persian king’s heart to allow all the Jews who would like to return to their homeland to do so as long as they were willing to see to it that the temple of Jerusalem was rebuilt. So a new king took over the Babylonians who had been in charge of the Israelites. The king of Persia wasn’t a God-fearing king but he was moved by the Spirit of God for a vast array of reasons. God moved in his heart that the temple of Jerusalem needed to be rebuilt, so he raised up funds and called all the Jews to be part of going back to their homeland and rebuilding it. Fifty thousand of the two million captive Israelites went back to rebuild the temple. They were excited about this opportunity. The king of Persia gave them all the resources they needed for the building project. When they arrived in Jerusalem, they began the process of clearing the rubble left behind by the invading Babylonian armies 70 years before. The Israelites set the foundation but then the work stopped. The temple remained unfinis ...
Series: Consider Your Ways
Tim Badal
Haggai 2:10-19
Please turn in your Bibles to Haggai 2. If you don’t know where the Book of Haggai is, go to your table of contents. That is the best way to find it because Haggai is one of the shortest books in the entire Old Testament. We’ve been in this series for the last three weeks looking at the Book of Haggai under the heading ‘‘Consider Your Ways: Choosing God’s Business over Ours.’’ I know it is summertime and some of you have been in and out for this series. So I will give a short update on what we’ve studied over the last three weeks. We have learned much about this obscure time in Israel’s history. Over these weeks, we’ve come to know that Haggai’s time was one of return and restoration for Israel. After nearly 70 years under the rule and captivity of the Babylonian Empire, the people of God were not released when the Babylonians were captured and overtaken by the Persian Empire. God then moved in the Persian king’s heart to allow all the Jews who would like to return to their homeland to do so as long as they were willing to see to it that the temple of Jerusalem was rebuilt. So a new king took over the Babylonians who had been in charge of the Israelites. The king of Persia wasn’t a God-fearing king but he was moved by the Spirit of God for a vast array of reasons. God moved in his heart that the temple of Jerusalem needed to be rebuilt, so he raised up funds and called all the Jews to be part of going back to their homeland and rebuilding it. Fifty thousand of the two million captive Israelites went back to rebuild the temple. They were excited about this opportunity. The king of Persia gave them all the resources they needed for the building project. When they arrived in Jerusalem, they began the process of clearing the rubble left behind by the invading Babylonian armies 70 years before. The Israelites set the foundation but then the work stopped. The temple remained unfinis ...
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