Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi
Three little chapters on the rebuilding of the temple...a project that had languished when the Jews returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian exile.
There is a repeated phrase in Haggai that I hadn't caught before.
Give careful thought.
If I were doing a study of Haggai, I would take some time and look over that, but that's not the object of today's post. But...have a look yourself. It's only three chapters.
No, today's post is looking for a verse that resonates when I read it, and what caught my eye today was the verse that is probably the best known passage in Haggai:
"The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house," says the Lord Almighty. "And in this place I will grant peace," declares the Lord Almighty. -- Hag. 2:9
"This present house" was, of course, the second temple that was being constructed. The one that made people weep who remembered Solomon's temple and saw that 'the present house' was not as magnificent.
No matter, God told them. The glory of this house will be greater than the glory of the former house. In later years, Herod worked it over and expanded it, but the physical beauty of the place wasn't the glory implied here.
The Desired of All Nations would come to THAT house. This was the temple that Jesus would teach in, would cleanse, the fall of which he would both prophesy and lament.
There is no greater glory that any house could be granted than his presence.
Give careful thought to that.
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