Haggai 2

And we'll fail, we'll make mistakes.

That's why when we get to Haggai 2, on the 21st of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, speak now to Zerubbabel, remember, the son of Sheltel, Joshua, and the remnant, and what do you tell them? Who is left among you who saw this temple in its former glory? The temple was originally built by Solomon, and

they had

gold here, gold there.

Thank you, George.

So for the young people, you heard him.

Don't wait, right? So as we close, in Haggai 2.20-22, we only have four more verses.

Then the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the 24th day of the month.

It says in the verse...

I think it's alluding to Haggai.

Let me just look at this here.

It says, I'll read you the verse.

His voice shook the earth at the time, but now he has promised, yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.

And the verse that that is referring to is Haggai chapter 2, verse 6.

So here's what it's saying, is just as God shook the earth when He gave the Law of Moses in Exodus 19, so also He is promising in Haggai 2-6 that He'll shake the earth once again with the return of the Messiah, and with the events that will come in the Messianic Kingdom when He shakes the earth once again with the coming of the Lord Jesus.

Okay?

Yeah, it's called the Day of the Lord.

Uh, Haggai 2:22 says, "I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms and I will destroy the strength of the Gentile kingdoms." And that's a promise the Lord made that this failed, flawed human government, it will come to an end one day.

Uh, you read in Psalm 2 how all the nations of the earth conspire against the Lord, and it says he just sits on his throne and laughs because, you know, the Lord has made his plans.

He, he's got a purpose, and his purpose is to put His Son on the throne of the earth.

He stood in that spot in the, in, in, in, uh, England's darkest hour, and now he was standing here in front of these students and he wanted to give them the same message of perseverance, and he told them never, never, never give in, right? This is week three of this series that we're talking about built to last, and you can't talk about being built to last without covering the topic of the power of persistence, of what does it mean to continue to move once you hit, uh, resistance.

We're in the Book of Haggai, which I, I gotta tell you, I don't know if you guys ...

Who, who, who learned it as Haggai, and who learned it as Haggai? Uh, this is how ...

Yeah, so come up.

Raise it, raise it.

Come.

It's just you and me, I think.

We're it, right? Anybody else, Haggai? I, I, I, I s- I figure it's my, my Baptist background is why they taught us that.

His, his voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, quote, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.

This expression, 'yet once more,' denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." Now, here the, the writer of Hebrews, he quotes the prophet Haggai, who states, quote, "For thus says the Lord of Hosts, 'Once more in a little while, I will-- I'm going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also, and the dry land,'" Haggai 2:6.

And this shaking refers to the topographical reconfiguration that God will bring just prior to the setting up of, of His kingdom.

So after the catastrophic changes in, in both the earth and heavens, ob- obviously you have the bowl judgments, the trumpet judgments just completely devastate the earth.