21"Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah: I am about to shake up everything, to turn everything upside down and start over from top to bottom--
22overthrow governments, destroy foreign powers, dismantle the world of weapons and armaments, throw armies into confusion, so that they end up killing one another.
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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