I don't know about Haggai. It sounds to me like a historical and local prophecy which speaks to the people returning from the Nebuchadnezzar exile. It sounds like they're talking about building the temple that Jesus would spend time in that God has now destroyed.
God had 3 prophets in operation at the same time; Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel. These three were being given different schematics or divergent eschatological outcomes. Daniel 9 contains the key or deciding stipulations of whether or not we would get the Ezekiel temple or whether we ourselves would BE the Temple. I'm afraid that the vision and prophet is now sealed and we are in the Daniel/Revelation time zone.
I also think that the tribulation may have already started and I'm not afraid of looking like a dummy when or if I'm found to be wrong. If it did already begin, December 2015 would be too late, June 2015 would be the latest for the 1290 day count to begin. I think if we can get past early 2019 and nothing of a major prophetic nature take place, then I'm a banging gong and a clanging symbol. Then I'll go away and get to work on a nice big pole barn that I've been planning.
I noticed that about you Dave, you do make quite a bit of mistakes in your view of prophecy. Having no concerns of looking like a dummy to others can cause one to make a lot of mistakes that can easily be avoided by merely reading the bible with a little common sense.
Example below concerning Haggai's prophecy comparing what Haggai said vs Daniel's and Ezra's description on the rebuilding of the temple and Jerusalem.
The second temple that was built was done during troublesome times: Daniel 9:24-25 and confirmed in Ezra 4.
The temple to be built and Jerusalem prophesied by Haggai will be done during a time of prosperity and great blessings upon Jerusalem: Haggai 2:6-9, Haggai 2:15-19.
Daniel 9:24-25 NLT
"A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, to put an end to their sin, to atone for their guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler--the Anointed One--comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, despite the perilous times.
Ezra 4:4-5 NLT
Then the local residents tried to discourage and frighten the people of Judah to keep them from their work. They bribed agents to work against them and to frustrate their plans. This went on during the entire reign of King Cyrus of Persia and lasted until King Darius of Persia took the throne.
Ezra 4:12-13 NLT
“The king should know that the Jews who came here to Jerusalem from Babylon are rebuilding this rebellious and evil city. They have already laid the foundation and will soon finish its walls. And the king should know that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, it will be much to your disadvantage, for the Jews will then refuse to pay their tribute, customs, and tolls to you.
Haggai 2:6-9 NLT
6 “For this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: In just a little while I will again shake the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the dry land.7 I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this Temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 9 The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. And in this place I will bring peace. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
Haggai 2:15-19 NLT
15 Look at what was happening to you before you began to lay the foundation of the Lord’s Temple. 16 When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty. 17 I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy everything you worked so hard to produce. Even so, you refused to return to me, says the Lord.
18 “Think about this eighteenth day of December, the day when the foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid. Think carefully. 19 I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn. You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops. But from this day onward I will bless you.”
Dave,
Do you understand what the scriptures above means? One temple and Jerusalem was built against adversity without God's blessings. Nowhere do you find in the book of Ezra a shaking of the heavens and the earth at the time of this temple being built.
The other temple mentioned by Haggai is being built at a time when Jerusalem is in great prosperity. Great wealth from everywhere will be brought into this temple. Shortly after the foundation of this temple is completed, God will shake the heavens and the earth. This is only found in the book of Haggai. Do you understand what this temple is Haggai is prophesying over? It's the 3rd temple, the next temple that will be built and completed in Jerusalem during the first year of the tribulation. Gentiles from everywhere will come help the Israelites complete the Temple, Zechariah 6:15.
Do you know why so many riches from all over the world will be brought into the temple during the first half of the tribulation and what God's purpose is for? Daniel 11:24, Ezekiel 38:12.
Daniel 11:24 NIV
When the richest provinces feel secure, he will invade them and will achieve what neither his fathers nor his forefathers did. He will distribute plunder, loot and wealth among his followers. He will plot the overthrow of fortresses--but only for a time.
Ezekiel 38:12 NLT
I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land."
And you got it wrong too Dave. The next temple to be built is NOT Ezekiel's Temple. Ezekiel's Temple is the 4th and final temple to be built in the millennium for Christ: Ezekiel 40-47. Ezekiel's temple will be built on Mount Zion and is a huge temple, roughly four times that of Zerubbabel's temple mentioned in Haggai that's to be built on Mount Moriah, the existing location of the temple mount, a relatively small temple, Revelation 11:1-2, Zechariah 2:1-2.
Remember when King David lined up that army and counted them off by thirds?
Nope, sure don't!
He spared every third person and killed all the rest. Then 12 times 1/3 is destroyed in
Revelation 8 and 9 but 2/3s are spared. And when the great city is split into thirds, does that sound like all 3 thirds are totally destroyed? 2/3s of 1000 = 666.666667. So having previously ruled out a 7 year span of time for the appointed time of the end, I've considered 1335 days and arrived at this as being the likely candidate. If 1335 is split into thirds there are 3 segments of 445 days. 1335 literal days fit in between two sets of solar and lunar eclipses. If you slide these days all the way over to the right so that the 1335th day touches the last solar eclipse, the first 1/3 of the 1335 day span would finish with July 2016.
But forget about all this. There's a total of six different things that either point to 2015 as a start or 2019 as the finish and one of these things are pointing to both ends at the same time. There's going to be nothing to replace these things in history past. The Suleiman decree of 1535, the Fig tree of 1948 + a 70 year generation, the Knesset decree on Passover eve 1969,+ Newton's Jubilee calculation of 49 years, 7 sets of 70 weeks since the Exodus bringing us to 1994 when comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smacked into Jupiter 21 times (21 + 1994) and now the solar/lunar eclipse of our tetrads connecting with another solar/lunar eclipse in 2019. I just don't see a repeat set up of anything like these things happening ever again.
But if you like crunching numbers, the year the tribulation commences is given in the bible and hidden in numerous scriptures. Falls on the exact same year in the hebrew calendar Haggai mentioned God will bless Jerusalem and shake heaven and earth.
Exodus (end of 1st Exile) = 2448 HC First Exile period = 430 yrs 2448 – 430 = 2018 HC God’s Covenant with Abraham = 2018 HC First Exile Began = 2018 HC End of Exile, Revelation of the Light of the Creator and Divine Peace = 5778 HC 5778 ‐ 2448 = 3330 yrs Jubilee yr = 50 yrs 3330/50 = 66.6 2448/5778 = .424 424 = numerical value of 7 Mashiach Ben David, the Messiah. 3330 + 430 = 3760 3760 – 430 = 3330 5778 (HC) = 2018 CE 5778 ‐ 2018 = 3760 3760 (HC) = "0" CE 3760 = 10 x 376 376 = numerical value of Esau
The First Temple was destroyed in 3338 HC. 3338 = 422 BCE The Second Temple was built in 352 BCE. The Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE. 352 BCE to 70 CE = 422 years. The numerical value of the word for 70 in Hebrew (שבעים) is 422. King David lived for 70 years. Israeli Statehood in 5708 HC End of Exile, Divine Peace year 5778 HC 5778 – 5708 = 70 years
Abraham born in 1948 HC Israeli Statehood in 1948 CE God’s Covenant with Abraham = 2018 HC 2018 – 1948 = 70 years from Abraham’s birth to Covenant with G‐d 2018 – 1948 = 70 years from Israeli Statehood to Messiah End of Exile, Divine Peace year = 2018 CE
The First Temple stood for 410 Years. The Second Temple stood for 422 Years. The total both Temples stood = 410 + 422 = 832 Years. The First Temple was constructed in 2928 HC. 3760 (HC) = "0" CE 3760 ‐ 2928 = 832 Years 2928 HC = 832 BCE Flood Occurred = 1656 HC Moses Died = 2488 HC 2488 – 1656 = 832 years The Final Redemption= 5778 5778 HC = 2018 CE Covenant of Abraham = 2018 HC 5778 – 2018 = 3760 3760 – 832 = 2928 years of exile from the Temples 5778 – 832 = 4946 4946 – 2928 = 2018 √4946 = 70.32 832/26 = 32 26 = Value of The Tetragrammaton 26 x 32 = 832 Letters in the Tetragrammaton = 4 The # of the letter “ד” Dalets in the Torah = 7032 The letter Dalet = 4 The number of exiles = 4 The Nations of current exile = 70
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