Haggai and the Expectation of the Experience of God’s Presence: Part 1
The Book of Haggai tells a story of expectation, confusion, and reorientation. In this book, written by one of the 12 Old Testament minor prophets, the people of Israel, just recently returned from their Babylonian enforced exile, are admonished by Yahweh (the personal name of the God of the OT) for their complacency and misplaced priorities. Rather than finishing the work they had previously begun on the Jerusalem Temple (see Ezra 3), they understood previous...
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