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Haggai 2:15

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Look at what was happening to you before you began to lay the foundation of the Lord’s Temple.

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When the builders completed the foundation of the Lord’s Temple, the priests put on their robes and took their places to blow their trumpets. And the Levites, descendants of Asaph, clashed their cymbals to praise the Lord, just as King David had prescribed.

So the work on the Temple of God in Jerusalem had stopped, and it remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.

Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

They furnish wine and lovely music at their grand parties— lyre and harp, tambourine and flute— but they never think about the Lord or notice what he is doing.

Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the Lord are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.

This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.

“Think about this eighteenth day of December, the day when the foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid. Think carefully.

Before the work on the Temple began, there were no jobs and no money to hire people or animals. No traveler was safe from the enemy, for there were enemies on all sides. I had turned everyone against each other.

“But now I will not treat the remnant of my people as I treated them before, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.

But if we would examine ourselves, we would not be judged by God in this way.




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