Haggai 2:6

"This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’"

Key Reflection

In Haggai 2:6, this verse reminds the people of God’s covenantal faithfulness to their ancestors who were freed from slavery in Egypt. The assurance that “my Spirit lived among you” speaks to a past spiritual intimacy and presence, encouraging them not to fear as they face the challenges of rebuilding the temple.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Yet once, it is a little while -This, the rendering of Paul to the Hebrews, is alone grammatical . “Yet once.” By the word yet he looks back to the first great shaking of the moral world, when God’s revelation by Moses and to His people broke upon the darkness of the pagan world, to be a monument against pagan error until Christ should come; once looks on, and conveys that God would again shake the world, but once only, under the one dispensation of the Gospel, which should endure to the end.

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