Haggai 3. Haggai [P] delivered five prophecies that are recorded in Scripture; they are all carefully dated – fixed to a specific historical time and setting. Last time we looked at the first of them last time: a message of rebuke [P] in [Haggai 1:1-11]. It was given on the first day of the sixth month…

Haggai 6. Intro: The prophet Haggai [P] delivered five messages from יְהוָה to the remnant of the Jews who had returned from exile in Babylonia. Their country was in ruins and their job was to rebuild, and in particular, to rebuild the temple of יְהוָה that had been torn down by the Babylonian invaders.…

Haggai 4. Rhoda takes Hannah and a few of the neighbourhood children to a kids’ club on Thursday evenings. At the end of the year they had a barbeque around the place of one of the people who take it – and I was dragged along. There we were in a situation with a group of fellow Christians, but who we…

Haggai 2. Last time we had a look at the historical background to the book of Haggai [P] – it is essential to do so because the message relates very much to the situation that was going on. You recall that because of their obdurate idolatry Judah had been exiled to Babylonia. Then יְהוָה, fulfilling…

Haggai 1. Intro: Please turn to Haggai chapter one [P]. For those of you who are newer to this fellowship; I have, over the past few years, been working through the Minor Prophets. In fact, I note that it was in 2007 that I started with the book of Joel. So we have had a fair dose of doom and gloom and…