Four sermons, one message — stop building your own houses and build God's.
"Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ______."
Haggai is one of only two prophets whose preaching visibly worked within his own book — twenty-three days after sermon one, the whole nation was back on the job site.
Every sermon in Haggai is date-stamped to the day — four messages across fifteen weeks in 520 BC. It's the most precisely dated book in the Bible.
His audience had paneled their own houses while God's temple lay in ruins — 'ye have sown much, and bring in little... and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.'
At two chapters, Haggai is the second-shortest book in the Old Testament — only Obadiah is shorter. Small book, big broom.