Haggai 1:2

"“This is what the LORD of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the LORD’s house to be built.’”"

Key Reflection

Haggai 1:2 reveals that despite God's clear instructions and encouragement to rebuild the temple, the people were delaying due to their own apathy and lack of faith. This reluctance underscores a broader spiritual truth—that believers often postpone obedience and service out of worldly concerns or personal comfort, ignoring God’s urgent call for action and worship.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say -Not Zerubbabel or Joshua, but “this people.” He says not, “My people,” but reproachfully “this people,” as, in acts, disowning Him, and so deserving to be disowned by Him. “The time is not come,” literally “It is not time to come, time for the house of the Lord to be built” . They might yet sit still; the time for them “to come” was not yet, for not yet was the “time for the house of the Lord to be built.” Why it was not time, they did not say.

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