Haggai

Haggai is a brief, dated series of messages delivered in 520 BC to the discouraged exiles who had returned to Jerusalem. They had let the rebuilding of the Temple stall while seeing to their own houses, and the prophet rouses them to finish the work: 'Consider your ways.'

As they obey, Haggai promises that the glory of this second Temple will one day exceed the first, and that God is with them. Short and pointed, the book is about getting priorities right and trusting God's presence in humble, unglamorous obedience.