Haggai 1-2

 Homiletics                                                       Study:        Exile & Return                               

Lesson    16                                                     Passage:    Haggai 1-2

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Changing Priorities (Haggai 1:1-15a) Darius 2nd Year, 6th Month, 1st Day  1. Haggai gives the Lord’s Message… Recognition: Houses rebuilt, but temple remains in ruin… Give careful thought (1:1-5) a. Planted, eaten, drank, clothes, wages b. Don’t do it for you, do they? 2. Request: Go up to the mountains, bring timber, and built Lord’s house for the Lord’s pleasure and honor (1:7-8) a. Expectations in returning didn’t turn out well (1:9a) b. Reason why is that the temple remains in ruin while you’re busy with your own house. (1:9b) c. Result was no dew for crops, a drought on crops, and your labor (1:10-11) 3. Decision to Obey and people feared the Lord (1:12) 4. Haggai gives the Lord’s message, “I am with you,” bringing Zerubbabel (governor of Judah) and Joshua (high priest), and people came and began work on the temple (1:13-15a) Darius 2 Year, 6th Month and 24th Day

Changed Purpose (Haggai 1:15b-2:14) Darius 2nd Year, 7th Month, 21st Day 1. Haggai gives the Lord’s word of encouragement. a. Who remembers the former glory of the temple (2:3) b. Be Strong Zerubbabel, Joshua, and people; work for I am with you, declares the Lord (2:4) c. You are my covenanted people who brought you out of Egypt, and My Spirit remains with you… Don’t Fear (2:5) 2. I’ll shake things up, says the Lord, and fill this house with glory of the former house and grant peace (2:6-9) Darius 2nd Year, 9th Month, 24th Day 3. Haggai asks from the Lord about defilement (2:10-14) a. Does meat consecrated carry over unconsecrated to things it touches? No priest‘s answer (2:11-12) b. Does defiled contact, like a dead body, defile things it touches? Yes, priest’s answer (2:13) c. Same for God’s people (2:14)

Blessing from Change (Haggai 2:15-23) Darius 2nd Year, 9th Month, 24th Day 1. Haggai gives a pointer to carefully think things through (2:15) 2. Before laying another stone in the Lord’s temple… Measure accurately (2:16) 3. I have struck the work of your hands, but you did not return to me (2:17) 4. Gives a warning to have careful thoughts towards the day when the foundation of the temple was laid: (2:18-19a) a. No seed left in the barn b. Until now, the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive have not borne fruit 5. “From this day on I will bless you” (2:19b) Darius 2nd Year, 9th Month, 24th Day – 2nd time 6. The Lord comes to Haggai a second time to tell Zerubbabel: (2:20-23) a. God will shake heaven and earth b. Overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of foreign kingdoms c. Overthrow chariots, horses, and drivers; each by sword d. Make a signet ring

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Changing Priorities	Haggai 1:1-15a
Changed Purpose	Haggai 1:15b-2:19a
Blessing in Change	Haggai 2:19b-23

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Haggai hears and shares God temple priorities, purposes; blessings result

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATL that a change in priorities and purpose aligned with God results in blessing

Application Questions

What distracts from God’s priorities?

What are your shortcuts take away from your best for God?

Where do you see fruit lacking in your ministry? How do you desire to have God shake things up?

Principles to Remember           

God Admonishes

God Guide

God Encourages

Characteristic of God

Calls to Holiness

Theme

Haggai is used to admonish, challenge returning exiles and leaders to holiness and path beyond self.