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Haggai 2:15

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Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple.

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When the builders established the Lord’s temple, the priests, ceremonially attired and with their clarions, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with their cymbals, stood to praise the Lord according to the instructions left by King David of Israel.

So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.

Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love!

They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

“Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Pay close attention to these things also.

From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

‘Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, think about it.

Before that time there was no compensation for man or animal, nor was there any relief from adversity for those who came and went, because I had pitted everybody – each one – against everyone else.

But I will be different now to this remnant of my people from the way I was in those days,’ says the Lord who rules over all,

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.




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