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"This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: These people say, `The time hasn`t yet come, the time for Yahweh`s house to be built.`"
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The Danger of Spiritual Excuses
Commentators agree that the people's excuse, "The time is not come," was a cover for their true motives: prioritizing personal comfort and wealth over God's work. Scholars like Spurgeon and Henry warn that Christians often do the same, using plausible-sounding reasons to delay obedience. This verse challenges us to examine if our "not yet" is a legitimate reason or a spiritual excuse born from indifference or a desire to avoid sacrifice.
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Haggai
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say— Not Zerubbabel or Joshua, but “this people.” He says not, “My people,” but …
19th Century
Anglican
The time is not come. — Better (unless we alter the received text), It is not yet time to come — that is,
Baptist
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto …
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16th Century
Protestant
Those who think that seventy years had not passed until the reign of Darius can be easily disproved from this passage. For if the seventy years wer…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thus speaks the Lord of hosts Of armies above and below; whom all ought to reverence, honour, and obey; who was able to s…
Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet the…
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