Putting Things Back Together Again

INTRODUCTION 1. About 600 years before Christ, Judah was taken captive to Babylon... a. Jerusalem with its temple was plundered and burned b. Seventy years later, the Jews were allowed to return 2. It was the Lord's intention that the Jews rebuild the temple... a. He stirred up Cyrus of Persia to let them do this - Ezr 1:1-5 b. But once the people returned to Jerusalem, other things began to take precedence 3. God then sent Haggai to the Jews with a simple message... a. The message was "Build the temple!" b. The message has an application for the church today [Turning in our Bib