Haggai

Question 1

Through the prophet Haggai, whom did the Lord command to build the temple?

a) Nehemiah – Ezra
b) Zerubbabel – Joshua
c) Nebuchadnezzar – Cyrus

Answer 1

B) Zerubbabel-Joshua

Haggai 1:1
“In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest…”

Question 2

Why did the Lord say these words to the Israelites?

“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…”
(Haggai 1:6)

a) Israel’s continual sin
b) Their failure to build the temple
c) their marriage to the Samaritans
d) their failure to attack the Babylonians

Answer 2

B) Their failure to build the temple

That was right after God said through Haggai (1:4)
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

Question 3

What is the main emphasis of Haggai’s message?

a) Tithe
b) Sabbath
c) Temple

Answer 3

C) temple