To show what fears the spirit’s remaining among a people or in the Church is calculated to remove. But he suggests the like broken sentence Zech. My Spirit remaineth among you; fear ye not. says Bishop Warburton;—that Israel should be his people, and he be their God and king. Is not the patience of the Spirit wonderful? The fulfillment of that promise would yet come, but not in the way fleshly Israel imagined. The Holy Spirit resides in every believer as the spirit of life, of light, of holiness, and of comfort. Where He is, is all good. He will yet bless the true Israel (the spiritual seed of Abraham), making them a blessing to all the earth. But he that is in covenant with God is Deo, Christo, Spiritu Saneto armatus, and may therefore be fearless of any creature. The ancient Jewish Church was set apart by God for the purpose of illustrating those deeper and, if I might dare so to speak, final aspects of the Divine nature. We are aware that there are some who imagine that such unity in the truth, and purity of Church fellowship, is too chimerical an idea to be realised “It is not possible” say they, “unless we are to conceive men to have only one mind, and to be divested of volition and of independence.” But we reply that all the sacred writers disprove this, for they has volition and independence, and yet spoke the same thing. ', To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, I. This subject teaches us, further, that the Spirit’s presence among His people is sufficient to remove their fears about the maintenance of the Lord’s cause and the continuance of His work. Things done by the parents may be said to be done by the children; because of the near conjunction that is between them. The indispensability of the blessing here spoken of. The particle eth seemeth put for gnayim; and the article he is emphatic, showing that by Word is meant the second person, often called the Word both in the Old Testament, 2 Samuel 7:21 cf. ), The presence of God’s Spirit in the Church. The inspiration of Haggai and Zechariah at this time was a specimen of the presence of God's Spirit remaining still with His people, as He had been with Moses and Israel of old (Ezra 5:1 ; Isaiah 63:11). In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,a. The very next verse would point to the true method of its accomplishment. answer Me.’ The Pharisees felt the danger of saying definitely it was from men, for the people still believed in the supernatural and in God; all men counted John as a prophet, but far more did they see the importance of committing themselves to a statement that the ministry was Divine, ‘If we shall say from Heaven, he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?’ To believe in the minister would involve them in a belief in Christ, belief in Christ must imply confession of sinfulness and absolute self-surrender. Wolff sees three layers of composition from Haggai to the final writer. Haggai is a post-exilic prophet, serving during the period following the Babylonian Exile. "Undoubtedly fear gripped many of the returnees-fear that God had written an eternal "Ichabod" over Jerusalem, fear that no amount of praying or piety would induce him to bless them again, fear that the whole endeavor was in vain, fear that the political enemies would in fact win, fear that all was lost." “Fear not.” “There is nothing for you to fear now I have given you this promise,” says Jehovah. He is the finger of God, giving as it were the last touch to all the perfection and beauty which we see around us. For I am with you . Greater glory promised to the second temple than to the first. n. 329. a. p. 811, ed. As the Lord had been with them in the cloudy pillar, so He was with them now. The old Rabbis were no strangers to this tremendous mystery (as appeareth by R. Solomen’s note on Song of Solomon 1:11 "We will make," &c.), though their posterity desperately deny it. This leads to the further promise in Haggai 2:6-9, which gives the reason for the exhortation, "Fear ye not.". Verses 10-11: The prophet’s third message was a message of affirmation. My Spirit abideth among you, - as the Psalmist says Psalm 102:27, "they (the heavens) perish and Thou abidest" Psalm 33:11, "The counsel of the Lord standeth forever" Psalm 111:3, "His righteousness endureth forever." As Jehovah Himself lives ever, so His Spirit shall follow us ever through all the changing scenes of time. On what ground could that Spirit have been given to the children of Israel except on this? His promise is, As thy days, so shall thy strength be.”. Purity of doctrine and worship is also spoken of by Christ as the effect of His Spirit’s presence in the Church, when He says of Him, “He shall glorify Me for He shall take of Mine and shall show it unto you,” and “He shall testify of Me, and shall lead you into all truth.” Men may be as zealous as they choose, and as fervid and fervent about their own devices and inventions in God’s worship as they will; but, departing from the rule of the Divine Word, they are under the guidance only of their own spirits. No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Haggai 2:5. 1. Ewald, 204-206), it is impossible to find any example of such an accusative of norm as is here assumed, especially with 'ēth preceding it. And so it is a gracious promise that the whole Trinity will be with them. The exercise of grace, and the cultivation of a holy walk and conversation evidences the remaining of the Spirit. Three words answering the three persons; and the middle word, "our God," deciphering fitly the second, who assumed our nature, as is well observed by Galatinus. On Whitsunday, the Sunday which begins the Ember week, the week of special preparation for the Christian ministry, we may well again repeat our belief in the old teaching of the Christian Church: that the ministry which we have is according to the will of Christ our Lord, and actuated by the Divine Presence of God the Holy Ghost. October 19, 2020. Haggai, and other prophets and patriarchs of old, did well understand the mystery of the sacred Trinity. But if a man come in the name of another, and that other not of this world but from above, then the whole relation becomes changed, and the sinful creature feels instinctively a shrinking at the Divine authority and Presence, which through the messenger is drawing men. Haggai was a post-exile returnee to the land of Israel whose main ministry was to encourage the people to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and to let them know that God was with them and would help them. They felt the pressure of the Divine Presence in the question of the origin of the ministry: they adopted a consistent Agnostic position, and withheld their confession both of the ministry and of Christ. {See Trapp on "Genesis 1:1"} Elihu speaks of the Almighty his makers, Job 35:10. At that time the prophetical, priestly, and kingly offices were all filled by eminent men. Featured Resources From Thru the Bible. I covenanted with you: or, supply the Ellipsis thus: "[I remember", or "Remember ye] the word which I", &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 29:45, Exodus 29:46). Only he, not very intelligibly, makes it a sort of oath, By the word, By that which the Lord hath given us. (W. But if 'ēth were a preposition instead of אתּכם, we should have עמּכם, inasmuch as the use of את־הדּבר, as a parallel to אתּכם, makes the words clumsy and awkward. But, more particularly, the Spirit’s presence in the Church is fitted to remove--. Haggai 2:5-9 KJV According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. The Spirit is the only agent that can dive deeply down into the secret recesses of the human heart, that can command the energies and feelings of the soul one by one, and bring them all into a loving subjection to the obedience of Christ. 5 ‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. The certainty of the blessing. And my Spirit remains among you. When our Saviour ‘ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and received gifts for men.’ Not only Joshua the high priest, but also Zerubbabel the governor, and all the people are exhorted to take their part in the restoration of Jerusalem and work. Responding to His Message (Haggai 1:12-2:9) C. Restoring His Favor upon Them (Haggai 2:10-23) Haggai Study Text (Haggai 1:12-2:9). The removal is sometimes, however, more permanent, and the separation more painful, for death takes them away from the world and from the Church below. (5) According to the word.âBetter, with the word. We have not, we fear, improved our privileges aright, nor rendered unto the Lord according to the benefits we have received; and in judgment the Lord has recalled His gifts. Sometimes affliction detains them for a long time from countenancing and encouraging by their presence those who delight in their company, and hold them in high esteem for their steadfast attachment to the truth and fidelity to the cause of Christ. God has been pleased to grant unto His Church a supernatural revelation of His will which we possess in the completed Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Haggai 2:5. Haggai 2:5-9 NKJV ‘According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!’ “For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I … But they may be read more forcibly in connection with the preceding verses without the supplement, thus, “For I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts, I, the Word that covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.” These words may be regarded as the language of God in the Person of the Son or of Christ. According to the covenant . (10-19) The kingdom of Christ foretold. But they are gone! But he suggests the like broken sentence Zechariah 7.7), "That which the Lord hath given us and hath preserved us and given the company against us into our hands!" The fears occasioned by the falling away of professed friends. It is an exclamation which cannot be forced into any grammatical relation with the preceding. so My Spirit, &c.: i.e. The word, that Israel is the property of Jehovah, and Jehovah the God of Israel, still stands in undiminished force; and not only so, but His Spirit also still works in the midst of Israel. Haggai rebuked his listeners in chapter 1. But the prophet points to it the more energetically, because he casts it, as it were, into the midst, not bound up with any one verb. It would quite agree with this to take 'ēth as the accusative of the norm, and also to connect it as a preposition, if this could only be shown to be in accordance with the rules of the language. The Greek Church was not as sound in this fundamental point; therefore their chief city, Constantinople, was taken from them by the Turks (as Estius observeth) on Whitsunday, or (as others) on Trinity Sunday; which day (saith our chronicler) the Black Prince was used every year to celebrate with the greatest honour that might be, in due veneration of so divine a mystery. Hereby, then, we may know whether or not we are in covenant with God (the devil will be sure to sweep all that are not), sc. The words which I covenanted - The words stand more forcibly, because abruptly. For us who are spared to give thanks again another year to Almighty God for the fullness of His great Pentecostal gift, it might be enough that we repeat our great hymn of faith, and testify our unchanged belief steadfastly in that faith once delivered to the saints; for it is a chief use of the recurring festivals of the Church, that year by year, in spite of the discordant utterances which we may have heard, we testify that our faith is still unchanged, so we give thanks to God and say ‘the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is all one: the Father is God, the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God, yet not three Gods but one God.’ God is one and yet three, three Persons and one God, God the Holy Ghost is one, yet are three diversities of gifts. So here, “The word which I covenanted with you,” i. e. this, “I will be with you,” was the central all-containing promise, to which God pledged Himself when He brought them out of Egypt. The governor was Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and the high priest was Joshua, the son of Josedech. Haggai 2:3, 4. The inspiration of Haggai and Zechariah at this time was a specimen of the presence of God's Spirit remaining still with His people, as He had been with Moses and Israel of old (Ezr 5:1; Isa 63:11). He deadens us to the things of the world, and quickens us to all Divine realities. Their prophets warned them, but to no avail. The word which the Lord concluded with Israel when He led it out of Egypt, can only be the promise which established the covenant, to the fulfilment of which God bound Himself in relation to the people, when He led them out of Egypt, namely, the word that He would make Israel into His own property out of all nations (Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 7:6; cf. 6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. 2. Christ, then, was a Saviour to those of the Old Testament also, "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world," Revelation 13:8. (g) "cum verbo quo pepigeram", Junius & Tremellius; "cum verbo illo quo pepigi", Varenius; approved of by Reinbeck, Append. As the Church of Christ is a society separated from the rest of the world for the service and glory of God, it has an essential unity belonging to it; and this unity ought to be manifested by it, both in its profession of faith and in its holy practice, for it is the will of its Divine Head who hath founded and stablished it, that is the rule in respect of both. There are those who are continually putting off. True, there had been a gross misunderstanding on secular Israel's part about what God's blessing meant, most of them interpreting it to mean that God would help them subdue all earthly enemies and incorporate the defeated nations into Israel's "godless state" or "kingdom," which was a concept foreign to God altogether. We may, then, on this festival of the Holy Spirit, acknowledge our thankfulness and encourage ourselves, "Undoubtedly fear gripped many of the returnees-fear that God had written an eternal "Ichabod" over Jerusalem, fear that no amount of praying or piety would induce him to bless them again, fear that the whole endeavor was in vain, fear that the political enemies would in fact win, fear that all was lost. p. 76, 77. It is delivered on December 18, 520 BC, three months after the work on the temple had begun. There are men who profess to be Christian men. Haggai, A Commentary. 8. and in his Die Proph. In prosecuting the work and cause of God His people are often called by Him in His providence to make many sacrifices of their own ease and comfort, and of their worldly substance; they have also to bear much reproach and scorn for the truth’s sake, not only from the world, but from those who bear the Christian name. THE PROBLEM OF SIZE - Vss. 2. Listen Haggai 2:5-9 by Dr. J. Vernon McGee on Thru the Bible show on ChristianRadio.com! As the soul is in the body, so God the Holy Spirit is in the Church, Himself its life, and bestowing on all and each every good gift, as each and all have need. That word, "fear not," with which Moses, not God, infused courage into the people, who were alarmed at the terrible phenomenon with which Jehovah came down upon Sinai, has no such central significance as that Haggai could point to it without further introduction, and say that Jehovah had concluded it with them on their coming out of Egypt. How to Have Peace in Anxious Times. (v. 2) God’s instructions concerning the message Haggai is to deliver (v. 3-9) God’s message for Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the people (v. 3) God asks three questions (v. 4-5) God’s gives three commands. This would be the rather done in speaking to the people, as David to his followers (1 Samuel 30:23, which Ewald compares, Lehrb. By shaking all kingdoms He can induce the nations to present their treasures to … It is not the word, which they vowed to the Lord, at the conclusion of the covenant, that they are to do now, but the work which they had begun, viz., the building of the temple, they are now to continue. Then foes conspired, the king’s courage retraced His throne against the enterprise arrayed, And now self-seeking apathy in vain all hearts The pulse grows faint, the will unbraced They rear their houses, let God’s house lie waste. The Chaldee seemeth to favour this interpretation, for he rendereth it, My word shall be your help. “I am with you always even to the end of the world,” by an ever-present presence with them and His Church founded by them in Him. The Lord showed great favour to His Church during the Old Testament Dispensation, in the frequency with which He revealed to her His mind and will, and in His special appearances for her preservation and deliverance. Locate the passage This is Haggai’s third message. if his Spirit remain in us, Jeremiah 31:33, working illumination, 1 Corinthians 2:14-15, mortification, Romans 8:13, motion, Romans 8:14, gifts, 1 Corinthians 12:4; 1 Corinthians 12:7-8, &c., fruits, Galatians 5:22-23, strength, Isaiah 11:2, courage, as here. The inspiration of Haggai and Zechariah at this time was a specimen of the presence of God‘s Spirit remaining still with His people, as He had been with Moses and Israel of old (Ezra 5:1; Isaiah 63:11). 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts. The common thornbush of the desert, burning, yet unconsumed. The Spirit takes of the things of Christ, and brings them home to us. An apostolic ministry does not mean merely a ministry springing out of the earth at the date when the Apostles lived, but a ministry which through the Apostles has the Divine sanction of the will of our Lord Himself. We all know the difference between the reading of the Word of God without Divine illumination, and with it. ‘My Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.’. on StudyLight.org It should be the same with us now. International Bible Lesson Commentary . The word that I concluded with you at your coming out of Egypt, and my Spirit, stand in the midst of you; fear ye not." My Spirit abideth among you, - as the Psalmist says Psalm 102:27, “they (the heavens) perish and Thou abidest” Psalm 33:11, “The counsel of the Lord standeth forever” Psalm 111:3, “His righteousness endureth forever.” The Spirit of God is God the Holy Spirit, with His manifold gifts. But they seem satisfied with being sure that they have escaped the damnation of hell. According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. Haggai spoke some 66 years after the temple was destroyed. (1-9) Their sins hindered the work. That kind of a kingdom was their idea, not God's; and, as a consequence, they arrogantly forsook their true religion, rebelled against God, forsook his holy law, and became as reprobate as the heathen; whereupon God destroyed their beloved worldly kingdoms which the people had come to idolize. ‘My Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.’. Is it not as nothing in your eyes? Both views are too narrow; rūăch is the divine power which accompanies the word of promise and realizes it in a creative manner, i.e., not merely "the virtue with which God will establish their souls, that they may not be overcome by temptations" (Calvin), but also the power of the Spirit working in the world, which is able to remove all the external obstacles that present themselves to the realization of the divine plan of salvation. 183. The Spirit of God is God the Holy Ghost, with His manifold gifts; where He is, is all good, there is life, and light, and fire of Love. ", John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. How else should they be able to perform their part of the covenant, since we cannot so much as suspirare unless he do first inspirare, breathe out a sigh for sin till he breathe it in to us by his Spirit? “So My Spirit remaineth among you.”. book 5: sect. There are those who feel that unless they are found working for Christ they cannot reasonably hope that they have been saved by Christ. The covenant-promise of God to the elect people at Sinai is an additional motive for their persevering. my Spirit remaineth among you — to strengthen you for the work (Haggai 1:14; Zechariah 4:6). He speaks to them as being one with those who came up out of Egypt, as if they were the very persons. when ye came, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:51). We are told that this promise of the Spirit was covenanted. speaking by the prophets. We have the Holy Spirit not only as a Teacher, but as a Comforter. Hans W. Wolff. Haggai may be a contraction of Haggiah meaning "festival of Yahweh." Haggai 2:5-9. Haggai 2:5. "I am with you always even to the end of the world," by an ever-present presence with them and His Church founded by them in Him. The Lord reiterated the promise He had made to the Israelites when they left Egypt in the Exodus. 4. . The fear occasioned by open and secret enemies to the work and cause of God. Besides such promises of Godâs abiding favour as Exodus 29:45-46, they have among them the abiding presence of His Holy Spirit. Suspensions may stop, and deprivations utterly put off the use or exercise of power before given; but voluntarily it is not in the power of man to separate and pull asunder what God by His authority coupleth.’ And this was evidently the teaching of the Church at the close of the second century, for Tertullian rallies the heretics of his day with their ‘careless, capricious, and inconsistent ordinations,’ wherefore he says,’ One man is Bishop to-day, another to-morrow; to-day deacon who to-morrow will be reader; to-day Presbyter who to-morrow will be layman, for even to laymen,’ he adds, ‘they commit the priestly offices.’ Such a system he well calls ‘futilis, humana, terrena.’ It tells nothing against this Divine origin and power of the ministry that it borrows names and outward form from organisations existing in the world in which it works; this is nothing more than the taking of the dust of the ground to make the first Adam, or taking of the flesh of the Blessed Virgin to accomplish the Incarnation of the Son of God. 2. According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. Jerome, Albertus, Nyssen, and Haymo dissent not. Haggai 2:17 - I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares the Lord . That I covenanted with you] Or, in whom I covenanted, and whence Christ is called the angel of the covenant, Malachi 3:1. We may, then, on this festival of the Holy Spirit, acknowledge our thankfulness and encourage ourselves by the words of the Lord, ‘My Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.’ But the whole context of the passage teaches us that the possession of a ministry with Divine authority, and empowered with the Divine energy of the Holy Ghost, should be no mere substitute for human energy, or for the exercise and development to the uttermost of the human faculties. These things are apt to discourage and fill them with fear. So the Psalmist says, "There" (at the dividing of the Red Sea and the Jordan) "do we rejoice in Him," as if present there; and our Lord promises to the Apostles, Matthew 28:20. i. e., "Would you deal thus with it?" He is able to give a double portion of His Spirit to those who remain, and to raise up Elishas upon whom the mantle of Elijah has fallen. The chronicler, he feels, added interpolations at 2:5, 9, 14, 17-19, 21-22. The evidence of the Divine Presence was the mission of inspired prophets, such as Haggai and Zechariah, and the Targum and the Rabbis are perhaps right in referring the words âand my spiritâ exclusively to the âspirit of prophecy.â It may be noticed that the later Jews held that the Holy Spirit left the Church after the deaths of Zechariah and Malachi. n. 329. a. p. 811, ed. The more exact idiom would have been “Remember,” “take to heart.” But the prophet points to it the more energetically, because he casts it, as it were, into the midst, not bound up with any one verb. The covenant assures us a new heart and a right spirit. This subject teaches us that the Holy Spirit is the very life of the Church and people of God. He called the people to 'consider your ways' and to 'be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.' References: Haggai 2:5-9. The word; either the word of promise to give them his presence, and to carry them through all opposition, or, the Word, the Son of God, promised to them and us; so it refers to Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen. Haggai 2:5-8 New International Version (NIV). So the Psalmist says, “There” (at the dividing of the Red Sea and the Jordan) “do we rejoice in Him,” as if present there; and our Lord promises to the Apostles, Matthew 28:20. saith the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest, and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work.’ It is an exhortation, not only to work, but to combined, united work. That I covenanted with you; in solemnest manner reduced to the form and model of a covenant, that it might be sure and firm to you, as to your fathers, in whose time I made this covenant, and with you in them. Vs. 2- Haggai's message was directed to the civic leaders, religious leaders and the people themselves. As Haggai offers encouragement, he singles out the leaders and the people using the same word in every instance. The Church, ever varying in the individuals of whom it is composed, is, throughout all ages, in God's sight, one; His promises to the fathers are made to the children in them. Those whom God receiveth into the covenant of grace he endues them with the spirit of grace. Others observe that the last letters in the original, both in the word "hear" and in the word "one," are bigger than ordinary; as calling for utmost heed and attention. p. 76, 77. , &c. as some render it; that is, Christ, the essential Word, who was promised to the people of Israel at that time, Deuteronomy 18:15 and in whom all the promises are, and the covenant of grace itself; and which covenant was indeed made with him from eternity, but was made manifest, or more clearly manifest, to the Jewish ancestors, when they came out of Egypt: now it is here promised, for the encouragement of the Jews to go in the work of the Lord in building the temple, that this divine Word should be with them also, to counsel, assist, strengthen, and protect them; even he who went before their fathers in the wilderness in a pillar of cloud by day, and of fire by night; the Angel of God's presence, that redeemed, saved, and carried them all the days of old; the Word that was in the beginning with God, and was God; and by whom all things were created at first; and who would, as since he has, become flesh, and dwell among them, and appear in this very temple they were now building; and who will be with all his churches, ministers, and people, unto the end of the world: so my Spirit remaineth among you: or rather, "and", or "also, my Spirit standeth", continueth "in the midst of you"F8ורוחי עמדת בתוככם "et Spiritus meus stat in medio vestri", Pagninus, Cocceius; "stana", Montanus; "Spiritus quoque meus stabit in medio vestrum", Vatablus.
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