2. Background
Hebrew : Hággáy
Septuagint : Haggaios
pronounced as “cawg-gah-ee”
Haggai means “festival”, “festive”, “feast”
Assumed born in Chaldea during
the Babylonian Captivity

3. L i f e
Haggai was a young man when
he returned to Jerusalem with
the first group of 50,000 persons
in 536 BC
He was the first prophet in
Jerusalem after the return from
the Babylonian captivity
He prophesied at the same time
as Zechariah, while Malachi
prophesied later.

5. Temple
A holy place that housed
the two tablets of the Ten
Commandments
the Holy Temple was
destroyed in 586 BC
the Second Temple was
completed in 516 BC ant it
lasted for five centuries

6. The Book of Haggai
second shortest book in the Old
Testament with 2 chapters and 38
verses
approximately written 520 BC
Haggai sought to challenge the
people of God concerning their
priorities.
He called them to reverence and
glorify God by building the temple in
spite of LOCAL and OFFICIAL
OPPOSITION.

7. Messages of Haggai
CHAPTER 1
-encourage
the Babylonian
exiles to rebuild the
Temple
Haggai 1:4, "Is it a time for you yourselves
to be living in your paneled houses, while
this house remains a ruin?"

8. Messages of Haggai
Haggai 1:5-6, "Now this is what the LORD
Almighty says: 'Give careful thought to
your ways. You have planted much, but
have harvested little. You eat, but never
have enough. You drink, but never have
your fill. You put on clothes, but are not
warm. You earn wages, only to put them
in a purse with holes in it.'"

9. Messages of Haggai
CHAPTER 2
-Messianic promises to remind the people
that the temple was more than just a building
but would one day be filled in the Lord’s glory
Haggai 2:9, "'The glory of this present house will
be greater than the glory of the former house,'
says the LORD Almighty. 'And in this place I
will grant peace,' declares the LORD
Almighty."

10. Insights/Reflections
to examine our priorities to see if we are
more interested in our own pleasures than
doing the work of God
to reject a defeatist attitude when we run
into opposition or discouraging
circumstances
to confess our failures and seek to live
pure lives before God

11. Insights/Reflections
to act courageously for God because we
have the assurance that He is with us
always and is in full control of our
circumstances; and
to rest secure in God's hands knowing that
He will abundantly bless us as we faithfully
serve Him