This short prophetic book was written about 520 BC after the Jewish exiles had returned from exile, and the objective was to encourage the rebuilding of the temple. So a prophetic word comes through Haggai to Governor Zerubbabel and High Priest Joshua calling for the rebuilding of the temple, but the people said "The time has not yet come for the Lord's house to be built". Haggai questions if they should be living "in panelled houses while this house remains in ruin?" The people have neglected God and thus suffer much frustration in their lives. So God calls for the rebuilding of the temple by bringing wood from the mountains for this. And "the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God.... so God said I am with you... and they came and began to work on the house of the Lord".
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