Malcolm Cox

1. The Call to Reflect - Haggai 2:2     - We notice all parts of the community are addressed. Secular leadership, spiritual leadership and the ‘remnant of the people’.      - No group will achieve much for God unless all parts are determined to please God and bring him honour.      - Are we all aligned in this way? - Haggai 2:3 “‘Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory?      - Now 520, destruction 586 - 66 years previously     - Three questions, all driving at the heart of their discouragement.         - ‘Who of you’; ‘How does it’; ‘Does it not’?     - Not all were old enough to remember, but some were, and may have been the most influential. If, when comparing the old temple with the smaller new one they were dejected, it is understandable.      - Perhaps he was one of those who was old enough to remember. It would lend weight to his question. Jewish tradition makes him old (1 Rabbi Eli Cashdan, The Twelve Prophets (Soncino Press, 1948), p. 254.).     - Had the work begun to lose momentum