Read: Haggai 1:1-2:23; Revelation 11:1-19: Psalm 139:1-24; Proverbs 30:15-16
Haggai had a word for Joshua, the high priest that it was not time to build the Lord’s house. The problem was that their hearts were not right. They were not putting the Lord first but their own lives. They worked long hours and didn’t see the fruit of their labor. They lived from paycheck to paycheck because their finances were so extended trying to keep up with their neighbors. God rebuked them for this and they listened and repented. God sent them a new message that he was with them and would restore their land and bless them once again.
In Revelation, God was doing the same thing. He was measuring the temple which means he was examining the hearts of his people. The altar is the cross and the measuring stick is Christ. In Revelation the Jews have to do with the true Body of Christ and the Gentiles have to do with the apostate church. The holy city is the Church that was trampled on for 1,260 days which meant 1,260 years. From 539-1799, the church went through great persecution. The two witnesses that determined what happened on earth and were eventually killed was the Old and New Testaments. The Bible was taken from the hands of the common people and its teaching so distorted that there was no real truth coming forth until the invention of the printing press and the Word was brought back to life and put back into the hands of the people. It was the fifth day of the week that Jesus was delivered into his enemies’s hands. On the sixth, he was crucified. He was buried on the seventh and rose on the first day of the week. So, the persecution of the Christians begin on the fifth day and ends after the sixth day, under the sixth seal and the sixth trumpet.
The seventh day, seal, and trumpet has to do with the day when the kingdom of the world becomes the kingdom of God’s. It is time to judge the dead and reward the saints. God’s temple and his presence is revealed.
Lord, open our spiritual eyes to see.
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