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As in the days of Haggai, excuses for apathy are shamelessly voiced, blind eyes are turned to the judgments of God, and defiled hearts sink into unfaithfulness. And yet the LORD Almighty remains faithful to his people and true to his word. Through repeated trials he calls the backslider to repentance, with timely encouragements and gracious promises he strengthens the downhearted, and for his own...

Before Christ’s advent, he was neither expected nor desired by the Gentile nations. The LXX and older translations render the phrase ‘the choice things of all nations’. The Hebrew verb is plural and requires a plural subject. The ‘silver’ and ‘gold’ of verse 8 have little to do with the coming of the Messiah. It offers no encouragement to the people to be told that an individual is coming for whom the Gentiles have been longing. And the Gospel writers do not quote this verse in connection with Christ’s
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