Haggai exhorts the Israelites to rebuild the temple of God: Jesus Christ came to build us up as the temple of Holy Spirit. (Summary in a paragraph.

Haggai 1 paragraph summary

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The first chapter of Haggai exhorts the Israelites to get ready to rebuild the temple of God. The Holy Spirit speaks to us today to make our body the temple of the Holy Spirit by coming to Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. The five Scripture quotes below summarizes the first chapter of Haggai.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

(There is opposition to us being the temple of the Holy Spriit) “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Click here for a post on the “man of sin”.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

1 Corinthians 6:19,2 Thessalonians 2:4, 1 Corinthians 16:17, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

We are made to be the temple of the Holy Spirit by the remission of sin through our Lord Jesus Christ. However, there is a thing in this world which sits in the temple, our body, as if it were God. It does that by forming what people think, feel, do, and says. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and they are being conformed to the anti-Christian global culture. They are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11