16And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.
17When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty.
Haggai 2 moves from rebuke to promise, from foundation to future glory. The chapter opens with the prophet addressing discouragement among the returned exiles who see the rebuilt temple as a pathetic shadow of Solomon's. God's response is staggering: the glory of this latter hous
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