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

concept of what God wants them to do is based on what God

has done in the past.

God did not have in mind another elaborate temple like

S olomon’s Temple , but rather a new house that would embrace

the nations. God did not want them to look back but to look

forward — to a new covenant and new type of house Hr would

live in, from which He would draw all nations into His kingdom.

The exilic temple was only a beginning step toward what would

become a worldwide house of God. The prophet Zechariah

wrote:

Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the LORD that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubbabel? ( Zech. 4:10)

Both Haggai and Zechariah infused their prophecies with far

deeper meaning and a grander vision of what the second

temple was to become.

Reflecting on God’s past faithfulness is a good thing. We can

learn valuable lessons and truths from the past. But when God

tells us to move forward, we are not to look at the past for

direction. Isaiah expresses it best:

Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know