INCREASE

BIGGER THINGS TO COME Zechariah gives assurance to Israel and previews a great growth.  Jerusalem will have to grow to accommodate all the nations that will be joined to Israel. Zechariah 2 1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.1  2 Then said

RECONSTRUCTION

YOU CAN DO BETTER Zechariah is given visions that suggest better times are available if they are willing to hear the Lord. Zechariah 1 1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,  2

FUTURE HOPE

PROSPERITY LACKING The Lord reminds Haggai and his people that the temple once looked better, and so did their harvests.  While he encourages them to return to his work, he makes a promise for better times in our times. Haggai 2 1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month,

RENOVATION

CONSIDER YOUR WAYS Haggai learns that God is not pleased with selfish people.  They tend to their own comforts while neglecting the house of the Lord.  God suggests that they consider the house of the Lord who feeds them. Haggai 1 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in