Haggai

A brief prophetic book where the prophet Haggai urges the Israelites to prioritize rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem after their return from exile. Haggai’s message leads to the people’s renewed commitment to the Temple’s reconstruction, promising their obedience brings God’s blessings.

• Lesson 01 – Haggai Intro

  THE BOOK OF HAGGAI Lesson 1, Introduction There is no way to properly discuss the Book of Haggai unless we first understand the historical background of the times, and to recognize the context that the Books of Haggai and Zechariah are completely tied together such that where Haggai ends, Zechariah begins both chronologically and historically. […]

• Lesson 02 – Haggai Ch 1

  THE BOOK OF HAGGAI Lesson 2, Chapter 1 Open your Bibles to Haggai chapter 1. This is a short chapter, that is straight to the point, and so we’ll be able to complete it in this one lesson. That said, there are some technical details, and some ambiguous words that we will attempt to deal […]

• Lesson 03 – Haggai Ch 2

  THE BOOK OF HAGGAI Lesson 3, Chapter 2 Let’s open Haggai chapter 2 by summing up chapter 1. The focus is clearly the Temple that still lay in ruins after close to 2 decades of the Judeans returning to their former homeland. Their former homeland is now but a Persian province called Yehud, and the […]

• Lesson 04 – Haggai Ch 2 cont

  THE BOOK OF HAGGAI Lesson 4, Chapter 2 Continued The Minor Prophets as a group were, barely a few decades ago, seen as an interesting historical record of the ancient times in which their prophecies were about Israel’s future from their perspective, but in the past from ours, and little else. So, their relevance was […]

• Lesson 05 – Haggai Ch 2 concl END

  THE BOOK OF HAGGAI Lesson 5, Chapter 2 Concluded END In our introduction to the Book of Haggai I explained that significant historical background is needed, as well as the elucidation of special terminology that we find in the original Hebrew, to properly examine the Book of Haggai and capture what the author intended to […]