Haggai = Festive.

Priority = The fact or condition of

being regarded or treated as more
important than others.
‘The Priority Principle Executes First, The
Important, And Then Followed By The
Urgent!’ -JJD.
 Key Text:
Hag. 1:7-8

‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Consider

your ways! Go up to the mountains and bring
wood and build the temple, that I may take
pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the
LORD.’
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1. Postexilic Prophet ... Ez. 5:1, 2.

Then the prophet Haggai and Zechariah the son of

Iddo, prophets, prophesied to the Jews who were in
Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel,
who was over them. 2 So Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and
began to build the house of God which is in Jerusalem;
and the prophets of God were with them, helping them.
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2. Contemporary Of Zechariah ... Ez. 6:14.

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So the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered
through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and
Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished
it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel,
and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and
Artaxerxes king of Persia.
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3. Prophecies In The Reign Of Darius
Hystaspes- 520 B.C. ... Hag. 1:1,15;
In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month,
on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD
came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
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on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the
second year of King Darius.
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3. Prophecies In The Reign Of Darius
Hystaspes- 520 B.C. ... Hag. 2:1,10, 20.
In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month,
the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,
saying:
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On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the
second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by
Haggai the prophet, saying,
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And again the word of the LORD came to Haggai on
the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
The Book Of Haggai

1. Purpose ... Hag. 1:1-15.

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2. The Coming Glory ... Hag. 2:4-9.

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3. On Levitical Cleanliness ... Hag. 2:10-14.
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On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the
second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by
Haggai the prophet, saying, 11 “Thus says the LORD of
hosts: ‘Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying,
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“If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment,
and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil,
or any food, will it become holy?” ’ ” Then the priests
answered and said, “No.”
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3. On Levitical Cleanliness ... Hag. 2:10-14.

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And Haggai said, “If one who is unclean because of a
dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?” So
the priests answered and said, “It shall be unclean.”
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Then Haggai answered and said, “ ‘So is this people,
and so is this nation before Me,’ says the LORD, ‘and
so is every work of their hands; and what they offer
there is unclean.