The Eternal Question
Does God Exist?
Haggai 1:5 (KJV)
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
It wouldn’t be impossible to argue that this verse is the axle upon which the prophecy of Haggai spins.
Haggai 1:7 (KJV)
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai 2:15 (KJV)
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Haggai 2:18 (KJV)
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid, consider it.
While the passage urges us to consider our ways (I understand its primary application is to the Jews, especially those who had just returned from captivity and had placed their own needs above those of the Temple), it seems to me that the argument points to God. Consider, GOD IS. The fact is there would have been no reason to rebuild the Temple if God didn’t exist. And the fact is that none of the consequences described in this passage could have been attributed to anything but chance, unless God exists.
