-
The Remedy for Those with Disappointed HopesParadise Restored to Mankind—By Theocracy!
-
-
Jehovah was urging them to give heartfelt consideration to the unusual ways in which things were happening to them. Then they would be able to see the connection between their having all their hard work on the land prove to be so unrewarding and their letting the house of Jehovah’s worship lie waste, although they were taking good care of themselves as to housing conditions.—Haggai 1:2-6.
-
-
The Remedy for Those with Disappointed HopesParadise Restored to Mankind—By Theocracy!
-
-
3. Who claimed to be responsible for their bad economic plight?
3 “‘There was a looking for much, but here there was just a little; and you have brought it into the house, and I blew upon it—for what reason?’ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies. ‘By reason of my house that is waste, while you are on the run, each one in behalf of his own house.
-
-
The Remedy for Those with Disappointed HopesParadise Restored to Mankind—By Theocracy!
-
-
6. For that reason, whom should the Jews fear, but how were they not showing that fear?
6 Unlike those Israelites referred to in Jeremiah 5:24, the repatriated Jews should not fear the wrath of the Persian Empire but should say: “Let us, now, fear Jehovah our God, the One who is giving the downpour and the autumn rain and the spring rain in its season, the One who guards even the prescribed weeks of the harvest for us.” (Jeremiah 10:10-13) Such fear of Jehovah they could not show by merely running to their own private houses so as to get as quickly as possible into their own cozy homes while at the same time letting the house of worship of their God lie waste. The house of so great a Personage as Jehovah of armies, the Great Theocrat, ought to be put first.
-