When Later is not Good Enough
Hello and welcome to Grace Outpost! I am delighted to have you join me today. This past week has been a tough and discouraging week. I honestly thought about skipping today's message altogether and just have a stress free day. However, I ran across the passage that we will look at today. I kept running into this message throughout the week from more than one angle and place, it became obvious to me this morning that God was speaking to me and my discouragement today. Before we can jump into Haggai we have to understand the scene upon which Haggai chapter 1 begins. For this background we need to look in the book of Ezra, chapters 3 & 4, which give us the backstory of what Haggai will speak into. These books cover a return to Jerusalem after the 70-year exile in Babylon. King Cyrus who was king of the Persians sent out a decree allowing those from Jerusalem to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. Zerruba...