Haggai.
Priorities — rebuild the temple before tending your own panelled houses.
Who wrote Haggai?
Haggai.
Who was it written for?
The returned exiles who had stopped work on the temple.
Structure
- Four oracles dated to specific days in 520 BC.
Key verses
Why Haggai matters
Haggai's message is unusually direct: "Is it a time for you to dwell in your panelled houses, while this house lies in ruins?" (1:4). The exiles had returned, started rebuilding the temple, and lost momentum. Sixteen years passed. Haggai's preaching got them moving again. The book is short, dated, and unromantic — sometimes spiritual life turns on simply taking up the work you abandoned.
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