Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built. Haggai 1:2
Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Haggai 1:3,4
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Haggai 1:5
..You would soon be running after them when you found that they are not turning up for work every day. You’d become very frustrated – ‘ well when is my house going to be built? .. why isn’t Fred in today? What excuse has he got? You hear it going on everyday in the world – in industry work and commerce. ‘ God’s Glory Is Coming To His Body. ‘
Your Way Or God’s Way
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. Haggai 2:16
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. Haggai 2:17