On the twenty-first day of the 1seventh month , the word of the LORD came by the prophet aHaggai, saying,During the seventh month three major feast days were celebrated: Feast of Trumpets on the first day, the Day of Atonement on the tenth day, and the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) on the fifteenth day (Lev 23:23-36).Hag 1:1 2 “Speak now to aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, bgovernor of Judah, and to cJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the dremnant of the people, saying,Hag 1:1Hag 1:12 3 ‘Who is aleft among you who saw this 1house in its bformer glory? And how do you see it now? Does it not seem to you like nothing in comparison?Solomon’s temple had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C., some sixty-six years previously.Ezra 3:12Hag 2:9 4 But now abe courageous, Zerubbabel,’ declares the LORD, ‘be courageous also, Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and be courageous, all you people of the land,’ declares the LORD, ‘and work; for bI am with you,’ declares the LORD of hosts.Deut 31:23; 1 Chr 22:13; 28:20; Zech 8:9; Eph 6:102 Sam 5:10; Acts 7:9 5 ‘As for the apromise which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, My bSpirit stands firm and immovable and continues with you; cdo not fear!’Ex 19:4-6; 29:45, 46; 33:12-14; 34:8-10Neh 9:20; Is 63:11, 14Is 41:10, 13; Zech 8:13 6 For thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘aOnce more, in a blittle while, I am going to cshake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. Heb 12:26Heb 12:26Is 10:25; 29:17Hag 2:21 7 I will shake aall the nations; and they will come with the desirable and bprecious things of all nations, and I will cfill this house with glory and splendor,’ says the LORD of hosts. Is 60:5; Matt 2:1-12Dan 2:44; Joel 3:9, 16Is 60:4-91 Kin 8:11; Is 60:7 8 ‘The asilver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the LORD of hosts.1 Chr 29:14, 16; Is 60:17 9 ‘The latter 1aglory of this house will be greater than the bformer,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘and in this place I shall give the ultimate cpeace and prosperity,’ declares the LORD of hosts.”I.e. at the Second Coming of Christ.Zech 2:5Hag 2:3Is 9:6, 7; 66:12
10 On the atwenty-fourth day of the ninth month , in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying,Hag 2:20 11 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘aAsk the priests for a ruling:Deut 17:8-11; Mal 2:7 12 If a man carries ameat that is holy because it has been offered in sacrifice to God in the fold of his garment, and he touches bread, or cooked food, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food with this fold, does what he touches become holy dedicated exclusively to God’s service?’” And the priests answered, “No!” 1Holiness is not transferrable.The meat is holy of itself and renders the fold of the garment holy by contact, but the garment cannot transfer holiness. The same is not true of a person who has contracted defilement by contact (v 13), so it is easier to be defiled than to be holy.Ex 29:37; Lev 6:27, 29; 7:6; Ezek 44:19; Matt 23:19 13 Then Haggai said, “aIf one who is ceremonially unclean because of contact with a corpse touches any of these articles of food, will it be unclean?” And the priests answered, “It will be unclean.” Ceremonial uncleanness, like sin, is infectious.Lev 22:4-6; Num 19:22 14 Then Haggai answered, “‘aSo is this people. And so is this nation before Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there on the altar is unclean because they who offer it are unclean.Prov 15:8; Is 1:11-15 15 But now, do aconsider what will happen from this day forward: before one bstone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,Hag 1:5, 7; 2:18Ezra 3:10; 4:24 16 from that time when one came to a grain heap expecting twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there would be only twenty. 17 I struck you and the work of your hands with ascorching wind, mildew, and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,’ declares the LORD.Deut 28:22; 1 Kin 8:37; Amos 4:9 18 ‘aDo consider from this day forward, from the btwenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the LORD was cfounded, consider:Deut 32:29; Hag 2:15Hag 2:10Ezra 5:1, 2; Zech 8:9, 12 19 Is the seed still in the barn? As to the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree—they have not produced. Yet from this day on I will abless you in the harvest of your crops.’”Ps 128:1-6; Jer 31:12, 14; Mal 3:10
20 And again the word of the LORD came to Haggai on the atwenty-fourth day of the month , saying,Hag 2:10 21 “Speak to 1aZerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, ‘I am going to bshake the heavens and the earth. Hag 2:6; Matt 1:12, 13Zerubbabel serves as the representative of the Davidic monarchy and covenant and in direct line of the ancestry of Jesus Christ.Ezra 5:2; Hag 1:1; Zech 4:6-10Hag 2:6; Heb 12:26, 27 22 I will in the distant future aoverthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the bpower of the kingdoms of the ungodly nations; and I will coverthrow the chariots and those who ride in them, and the dhorses and their riders will go down, eevery one by the sword of his brother annihilating one another. Dan 2:34, 35, 44, 45; Rev 19:11-21Ezek 26:16; Zeph 3:8Mic 7:16Ps 46:9; Ezek 39:20; Mic 5:10Amos 2:15Judg 7:22; 2 Chr 20:23 23 On that day,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, My servant,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will make you through the Messiah, your descendant like a 1asignet ring, for bI have chosen you as the one with whom to renew My covenant to David’s line,’” declares the LORD of hosts. 2+@Sam 7:12, 16The authoritative seal signifying the fulfillment of the Messianic promises.Song 8:6; Jer 22:24Is 42:1; 43:10