Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.” Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Consider your ways! Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the LORD (Hag. 1:5–8). It is as if God is saying to the people: ‘Where has all this concentration and effort upon your own concerns got you in the end? Are you any happier, or more contented, or more at peace in your hearts? No, because I have withheld my blessing from you because you have neglected
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