January 10th, 2023 Last night I dreamt that I was in an ancient Isreali city. The building were old and worn. I saw a woman with her head in a window resting on her arms looking outside sobbing. As I wandered this city I first saw a man coming in through the city gates who was weeping uncontrollably as though grieving as though mourning. Then I began seeing groups of people all crying in anguish. These people were all very skinny as though starving. Haggai 1:1-15 A Call to Rebuild the Temple (see also)
(Ezra 5:1–5) 1In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak,a the high priest, stating 2that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’ ” 3Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying: 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” 5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. 6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.” 7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. 8Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. 9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. 11I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.” The People Obey 12Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD. 13Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD. 14So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God, 15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius The Lord God Almighty says “ to the lands of Isreal and to the nation of America where many of My Remnant have gone and been taken to. ‘Turn the hearts and your affections back to me ! Fear me, Trust Me, Hope and Have Faith in Me alone. All other efforts, hopes, toil and labor are futile and useless. All other efforts will continue to go into a purse full of holes. As I spoke through my Son Jesus in John 4:23 ‘Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in Truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.’ I am seeking hearts to take up residence. A tabernacle is only a building. The hearts if My people is what I desire most, to be in constant communion with my people. Until you choose Me as your first priority, you will continue to labor and toil in vain. This is why the Israelites are weeping and mourning. They have not sought Me yet and they remain and continue to reap what they have sown. America you are the same. How bad must I let things get before you cry out, repent and turn to me?” jWinters