Christ will Come!
25th week Friday in Ordinary Time Year One Hag 2:1-9 Christ will Come! Encouragement in the Face of Discouragement: The older generation remembered Solomon’s temple and felt the new temple paled in comparison. God acknowledges this discouragement but urges them to continue. "Be strong… for I am with you": Repeated three times this is central to God's message. It mirrors encouragements from earlier in Israel’s history (like Joshua 1). God’s Promise of His Presence: God reminds them of the covenant and that His Spirit is still among them a powerful reassurance. Prophetic Vision of Glory and Peace: God promises that the “latter glory” of the temple will surpass the former. This has both immediate and future (messianic) implications. Do we believe that in coming of Christ and the final peace of God's kingdom? Year Two Eccl 3:1-11 We are Made for Eternity! There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to plan...