Trust Continually Haggai 1:6 - “Consider your ways. You have sown much and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.” The Israelites… Continue reading Haggai – Trust Continually
Tag: Reading Plan – Minor Prophets – Zephaniah and Haggai
Haggai – Think Carefully
Think Carefully Haggai 1:8 – “Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.” After the torture and cruelty of the Assyrians, the Babylonians piled on even more – ‘They burned the house of God and… Continue reading Haggai – Think Carefully
Zephaniah – Joy Everlasting
Joy Everlasting In terms of the expectant judgement, it is those who reject God’s ways and say to themselves, “I am, and there is no one else” (2:13), that will face the coming punishment. “Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled. She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust… Continue reading Zephaniah – Joy Everlasting
Zephaniah – Judgement Expected
Judgement Expected The prophets were sent to remind the people of God’s justice and his mercy, with judgement often referred to as ‘the day of the Lord’. “The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there”… Continue reading Zephaniah – Judgement Expected
Zephaniah – Jehovah Enraged
Jehovah Enraged The opening oracle of Zephaniah is both shocking and devastating: “I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth” declares the Lord. “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked.… Continue reading Zephaniah – Jehovah Enraged
