The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #231
231. Internal Meaning of Haggai, Chapter 1 (1)
1-4 They believe that the Messiah will come to exalt them to glory, and yet the church among them has been devastated. (1, 3)
5-6 They could no longer be taught by the Word. (3)
7-9 The church cannot be instituted among them, because everyone looks to Himself and not to the Lord; (3)
10-11 therefore no truth or good can be received by them. (3)
12-15 The church will be instituted among those who are wise from the Word. (11)
Haggai 1:12-15
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Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
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Then Haggai, Yahweh's messenger, spoke Yahweh's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says Yahweh.
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Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
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in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
