Peasant Wealth Baby
- Josh Negron
- May 17, 2009
So, there they were. A bunch of homeless refugees who had been given permission to return to their homeland. Things were bad. They were really bad. The temple had been destroyed 70 years before; the wall to the city had been destroyed; the glory of the Lord had left from them. They had no hope; no future.
Then something miraculous happened. A prophet named Haggai stood up. He made a bold statement: "God says you will be okay." That was it.
A word from the Lord, now? After all this chaos and trouble? Didn't he abandon us a generation ago? Does he really still care about us?
Haggai promised that God had plans for the Israelites, and was on a mission to restore the human race to peace. That peace is now here. And now is the time to take heart. Now is the time to work to rebuild the wall and the temple, and your lives. God is with us, now.
