Haggai

To challenge the returned exiles to prioritize rebuilding the temple - not for the building's sake but because God's presence among them was at stake.

The prophet Haggai confronts the returned exiles who have prioritised their own houses over God's house, challenges them to rebuild the Temple, and promises that the glory of the latter house will exceed the former.

Haggai's two-chapter ministry produces the most immediate response to prophetic calling in the Old Testament and contains one of the most important promises about the coming of God's greater glory.