The Shaking of Nations - A Harvest Tsunami Is On Its Way....

Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? (Hag. 2:3)

The people were looking at their past to determine what they

could do in the future. But they did not understand that God

wanted them not to look back, but to look forward. Again, they

were letting circumstances and a wrong focus determine

whether they could obey God.

When the people ceased obeying God’s mandate to work, the

Lord stopped blessing them. (Hag. 2:10-19). No longer was He

receiving their sacrifices on the rebuilt altar, because their

disobedience made such sacrifices unclean to him. Their lives

and hard work were achieving far less than they wanted,

because Go d’s blessings were withheld.

Yet, if they would stop letting circumstances dedicate their

obedience, and return to obeying His word, He would once

again bless them.

The Church Today

The Lord quickened a thought to me as I read about the

struggles of these exilic Jews: Too many churches, like these

ancient Jews, are gripped by fear of their circumstances and

are looking for answers to past glories of the church. Their