21 September 520 B.C. Getting Up When Down (Haggai 1.4). God in Action, Covenant Promises & People in Action Building the Temple.
21 September 520 B.C. Getting Up When Down (Haggai 1.4). God in Action, Covenant Promises & People in Action Building the Temple. Backstory. The wickednesses of the Old Testament church were horrific. Judgment had been in the making. Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed the nation and the Temple. The hubris and doctrinal-worship-piety-disorders of the covenant people had accumulated. Nebuchadnezzare had deported the Jews, or, most of the Old Testament Church, to Babylon. The Temple lay in ruins. But wait, can’t we just be Marcionites and dismiss it all, for crying out? Jeremiah had been forecasting it all, including a 70-year exile. Jeremiah 29.10, inter alia. Jeremiah 29:10 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) 10 But thus saith the Lord, that after seventy years be accomplished at Babel, I will visit you, and perform my good promise toward you, and cause you to return to this place. In 538 B.C., per Cyrus’ decree, humbled believers retur...