Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Saturday, September 21, 2013

September 21, 520 B.C.: Haggai 1.15, 2.10, & Call of Covenant Promises & Fidelity

21 September 520 B.C. Lest we forget
 
Haggai 1.15; 2.10. The people’s spirits were stirred with good works that followed.

Each of Haggai’s four sermons were carefully dated. The first was probably August 29, 520 B.C. The messages are to the leaders to “facilitate” their compliance as well as to stir the people to covenant fidelity, stedfastness, courage, honor and duty; it was also a call to defy obstacles to the same.

Haggai 1.14-15: “So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.” ...


God Himself, directly, immediately, efficaciously and graciously, brought about the response of His people to His own Presence with them...just as promised in the Abrahamic covenant.

Haggai uses the term “spirit” three times. God is the sovereign of “spirits,” or, the human beings. God penetrates to the interior of the subconscious and conscious, the world of the mind, feelings, affections and volitions...then, like now.

The “twenty-fourth day of the month” is probably September 21, 520 B.C.

The people had repented of discouragement, self-absorption and indifference, challenges that face every age.

They began the work on September 21, 520 B.C. and Haggai brought a message of encouragement on October 17, 520 B.C. See Haggai 2.1-9.

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