The Final Shakedown, Part 1 (Hebrews 12:26-27) | Worship Service

Welcome to Kootenai Church. We're glad you're here. Would you please stand this morning as we begin our call to worship with a reading out of Psalm 5, verses 11 and 12. Say, but let all who take refuge in you be glad.

Let them ever sing for joy and may you shelter them. That those who love your name may exalt in you. For it is you who blesses the righteous one, O Yahweh. You surround him with favor as with a large shield.

We're going to sing together, let your kingdom come.

Jesus Christ we know, but for your wrath save us, O we pray.

Just one pertinent announcement this morning and that is, my voice that bad? It's gonna be coming through. One announcement and as we have a baptism class after the service today about 1215, you want to meet in this classroom right back here for that class and then we have a four or so that are planning to be back there, at least four that have talked with me.

So if you're interested in baptism coming up on October 22nd, you'll want to be in part of that class. You must attend that class so you understand what baptism is and why we baptize before you can be part of that baptism service in terms of being baptized.

I want to take this opportunity to apologize on behalf of my voice. I know that my voice is not easy to listen to on the best of days and today is not the best of days, so I want to apologize if I start coughing in the middle of the sermon or if I start whispering or even if I fall asleep.

My apologies ahead of time. Turn now please if you will to Psalm 97 for our scripture.

Reading. Psalm 97 and we're gonna read the entire Psalm together. It's only 12.

Verses. Psalm 97. The Lord reigns, that the earth rejoice, that the many islands be glad. Clouds and thick darkness surround him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries roundabout.

His lightnings lit up the world. The earth saw and trembled. The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the whole earth. The heavens declare his righteousness and all the peoples have seen his glory.

Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images, who boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all you gods. Zion heard this and was glad that the daughters of Judah have rejoiced. Because of your judgments, O Lord, for you are the Lord Most High over all the earth.

You are exalted far above all gods. Hate evil, you who love the Lord, who preserves the souls of his godly ones. He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Light is sown like seed for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.

Be glad in the Lord, you righteous ones, and give thanks to his holy name. Will you stand with me as we pray? Let's bow our heads. Our Father, we gather here this morning to worship and to honor you, to hear of you in your word, and to bring our hearts and our minds in subjection to your truth.

We want to honor you with the words of our lips and the meditation of our hearts as we reflect upon your word and hear it preached. We pray that you would be glorified through our time here and our worship.

We pray that you would give us hearts to sing with boldness and with clarity your truth, your words, and to honor your great name. And we pray that the words that we sing may be a reflection of the sentiments of our hearts.

Focus our minds and our hearts upon your truth this morning, that we would be transformed by your truth, conformed to the image of Christ, and that you would do this work in the hearts of your people.

We pray that through our worship you would be glorified, that we would be sanctified, that you would draw near to us in your word, that you would strengthen us to hear and to speak your word, and that you would unite our hearts in your truth for the glory of Christ our King.

In his name we pray. Amen.

Manhood and deity, in perfect harmony, the man who is God of eternity, dwells in humanity, kneels in him, and washes our feet. Get love, bring together.

Galatians chapter 3 verses 13 and 14 it says, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. In order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

We're going to end our service this morning by singing, My Worth is Not in What I Own.

Cough drop fairy visited the pulpit while I was between sets there. Thank you. Whoever did that. We turn please to Hebrews chapter 12.

Hebrews chapter 12. Once you're there, before we.

Read, we'll ask the Lord's blessing on our time. Let's bow our heads. Father, our prayer this morning is simple, that you would open your word to us and allow the light of truth to shine upon our hearts and our minds, that we would grow in our love for your word and our commitment to it and our submission to it, and that you would transform us and change us by your word more into the image of Christ.

We pray that our hearts would be bent by your word and even broken if necessary, that we would both heed the warnings of your word and take comfort in the promises that are in your word as well. And so we pray that you would bless our time here to that end, in Christ's name.

Amen. There is an unbiblical notion that seems to flourish among immature and untaught believers in Christian circles, and it is the teaching that there is a difference between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament.

If you follow or hear or listen to progressive Christians or progressive Christianity, then it's not uncommon for you to hear this notion put forth in one form or another. According to this idea, this doctrine, the God of the Old Testament, is filled with wrath.

He is angry and seething at sinners, utterly devoid of mercy, grace, and love. His anger is overbearing and mostly unjustified. He is like a petulant child who bursts forth with outbursts of wrath anytime he doesn't get his way.

And he can only be satiated and appeased by blood and death and all he is known for really is his judgments. And then according to this same doctrine in the New Testament, we have Jesus. He came to show us that all the Old Testament writers got it wrong.

They didn't know any better. They were simply products of their time and their culture. They suffered from an ignorance of the one true God and were shaped by the superstitions of their age. But Jesus came to show us a softer, more gentler God.

He came to show us the softer side of Sears and he stressed love and forgiveness and tolerance and acceptance. And according to this way of thinking, Jesus wants us to know that we have nothing to fear from God.

He is not mad at you. He's mad about you. He just can't get enough of you. He thinks you are fantastic. And he is okay with sin and unrighteousness and he will wink at violations of his law and unrighteousness and holiness and that idea of repentance, well that is an old fashioned word and one that certainly doesn't belong in any New Testament understanding of God because God loves you just as you are.

Now that message appeals to the fleshly man. It appeals to us in our fallenness because really that is a God that is fashioned after our own image. It is a God who demands nothing, expects nothing and will hold nobody accountable for anything.

That portrayal of God is based mostly upon the most shallow of possible readings and understandings of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Yes, it is true that in the Old Testament we see the wrath of God on display.

You see it at Sodom and Gomorrah. You see it in the judgment. You see it at the garden. You see it at the Tower of Babel. You see it all over the Old Testament. There are many examples of the wrath of God, but it is equally true that the love and the grace and the mercy of God is on display all the way through the Old Testament as well.

The Psalms are filled with references both to God's justice and to His loving kindness. These are not mutually exclusive. In fact, it is in the Old Testament that we read of God's redeeming love that He would send one who would be the seed of the woman who would crush the serpent's heel and redeem a people for Himself.

That is an expression of God's love and that's all the way through the Old Testament. And it is true that in the New Testament we do read a lot about God's compassion for sinners and His grace and His kindness is on display in the person of Christ and in the teachings of the New Testament.

That is true. But it is also true that the New Testament is filled with references to hell and damnation and God's righteousness and the justice that will fall upon sinners. The wrath of God is described in the New Testament just as clearly and unequivocally and unapologetically as anything you will find in the Old Testament.

And to walk away from the Bible, reading of the Bible with this idea that the God of the Old Testament is a God of wrath and the God of the New Testament is a God of mercy and grace. You have to ignore vast portions of the New Testament.

Certainly the entire book of Revelation, right? You have to ignore that entire book. In fact, you have to skip over quite a few. Most of the epistles which warn of God's wrath and judgment and damnation.

In fact, you really have to just cherry pick a few references in the Gospels where Jesus talks about love and loving your neighbor and being kind to others and the golden rule. And you have to cherry pick those verses and exclude all of the passages where Jesus talked about the wrath of God and warned sinners to flee from the wrath that is to come and called sinners to repentance.

You have to ignore all of that, the red words of Jesus as it were in the Gospels and just sort of cherry pick the ones that make you sort of have the feels, the warm fuzzies inside. Just focus on those.

Jesus not only warned of the wrath to come but the Jesus of the New Testament promised that when sinners face that wrath He will be the one that they face. He said, the Father doesn't judge anybody as committed all judgment to the Son.

That's John chapter 5. Every man and woman who has ever lived will stand before Jesus Christ and will either be welcomed into His eternal kingdom based upon the merits of what He has done or they will be cast into eternal damnation based upon the merits of what they have done.

And He will be the one who executes that wrath. The passage before us in Hebrews chapter 12 is one such warning of that judgment. It is the fifth and final warning passage in the book of Hebrews. There is implicit in this warning and we're looking specifically at verse 26 and 27 today but the warning passage is verses 25 through verse 29 the end of the chapter.

There is implicit in the warning the reminder that forgiveness is available in Jesus Christ for this judgment will fall the judgment that is warned of here will fall upon those who are impenitent and hard-hardened and will not repent and turn from their sin and trust in the Savior.

Let's read together Hebrews 12 beginning at verse 25. This expression yet once more denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken as of created things so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken let us show gratitude by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe for our God is a consuming fire. Now we have in that passage four motivations for attentive obedience in light of the blessings that we have received in Christ.

Remember this follows on the heels of the blessings of the New Testament the new covenant that are enumerated in verses 22 through 24 and that is contrasted with the fear and trembling that accompanied the giving of the old covenant described in verses 18 through 21.

The first motivation for obedience is in verse 25 it is the pattern of past judgments against disobedience and we already looked at that last time we were together in the book of Hebrews. God has a good track record of dealing in justice with those who have received the warnings of judgment and those who refuse his word and ignore the warnings will not escape just as Old Testament Israel did not escape when they were warned.

If they would not heed the warnings then they certainly would not escape the judgment that was to come. Just like the generation that came out of Egypt did not escape the judgment when they refused to hear him who warned them from heaven.

The pattern of God's past judgments is a harbinger of what is to come. You can look at God's past activity and how he has handled sin and what he has done and every one of those is a foreshadowing of a much greater judgment that is to come upon sin and upon sinners, impenitent sinners.

So that was the first motivation for obedience, verse 25, the pattern of past judgments against disobedience. The second motivation is in verses 26 and 27 and this is where we're at today, the promise of a final future judgment on the wicked.

That is what is described in verses 26 and 27. Verse 28 is the pledge of an unshakable kingdom and verse 29 the perfection of an unchanging God. Those are our four motivations for obedience. Today we're just focusing on the promise of final future judgment on the wicked.

Read verses 26 and 27 with me again. And his voice shook the earth then but now he has promised saying yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven. This expression yet once more denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken as of created things so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Those two verses are describing an eschatological or end times judgment. There is a judgment coming that will be so severe as to remove everything that is temporal so that only that which is permanent remains.

Verse 26 you will notice contains a quotation from the Old Testament and that is probably noted in your Bible translation in some way either all capitals or by italics. Verse 27 offers a commentary or an explanation of the quotation from the Old Testament that we find in verse 26.

And there are a number of contrasts in these two verses. I want you to notice them. The author contrasts the shaking of the earth that occurred at Sinai with the shaking of the earth and heaven that will occur at the end of time.

He describes the then versus the now. His voice shook the earth then but now he has promised saying yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven. There is the threatenings of judgment at Sinai versus the promise of a final judgment.

There is the contrast of temporal and created things with eternal and everlasting things and then there is the contrast with things which will be removed and then things which can never be removed. The connection in verse 26 is with Sinai.

When the author says in his voice shook the earth then, what shaking of the earth was he referring to? He's referring to that monumental event recorded in Exodus chapter 19 when God met with his people at Mount Sinai after he had brought them out of the land of Egypt.

It is described in our passage in verses 18 and 19. So look up at those two verses. Remind you of the context. For you have not come to a mountain which can be touched into a blazing fire and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them.

Words were spoken to them at that point. God spoke to them and it was accompanied by the trembling of the earth and the mountain quaking violently and though that is not described in Hebrews 12 verses 18 and 19, it was something that accompanied that event.

We read of it in multiple places all the way through the Old Testament like for instance where the incident is recorded in Exodus 19 verse 18 it says Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace and the whole mountain quaked violently.

There are other passages that describe the same event. Judges chapter 5 Lord when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the field of Edom the earth quaked and the heavens also dripped even the clouds dripped water.

The mountains quaked at the presence of the Lord. This Sinai at the presence of the Lord the God of Israel. Psalm 68 verse 7 O God when you went forth before your people when you marched through the wilderness the earth quaked the heavens and the drops of rain at the presence of God.

Sinai itself quaked at the presence of God the God of Israel. Psalm 77 verse 18 the sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind the lightnings lit up the world the earth trembled and shook. And what was the effect of that at Sinai?

It struck terror in the hearts of the people. They got very clearly the impression that this was not a God to be trifled with. This was a God who warned them and if they did not heed his warnings then they would face the judgment at the hands of this God who is a consuming fire.

Standing at the foot of that rock mountain they saw that mountain and the ground upon which they stood tremble and shake so violently that the children of Israel felt as if these things which are immovable and impenetrable and unchangeable rocks, mountains of rocks would suddenly dissolve and fall apart into sand.

And they were terrified by that. The effect was a terror and a dread and that was then. Now he says if you thought that was a precursor of judgment you ain't seen nothing yet. We have the promise of a judgment that is to come that is an even greater judgment.

Not just the shaking of a mountain but the shaking of every mountain. Not just the undoing of one rock but the undoing of every rock. Not just the terror and threatening upon one nation but terror and threatening upon all the nations.

Not just the children of Israel but all who have ever lived. That is the judgment that is to come. If you think Sinai was something and you think they were terrified wait until the unbeliever stands before a holy and righteous God having violated his commandments and is forced to stand there before the piercing glory of his holiness and his righteousness and give an account for every thought, word and deed that they have ever said or done.

You think the children of Israel were terrified? That is nothing compared to the judgment that is to come. That is the point of the author in Hebrews chapter 12. In verse 26 he quotes an Old Testament passage but now he is promising yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.

That is a quotation from the book of Haggai chapter 2 verse 6 and I know what all of you are thinking right now. You're thinking Jim I sure hope that you ask us to turn back to Haggai chapter 2 so that we can see the context of this quotation and what it meant to them and why the author of Hebrews quotes it.

And since that's what you're thinking that's what we're going to do. So turn back to Haggai chapter 2 and this is where we are going to spend the remainder of our time. There are a number of connections in the book of Haggai to the themes of Hebrews 10, 11 and 12 that I want you to notice.

Now I know that Haggai is one of those books that gets lost in the last 12 books of the Old Testament so Haggai in case you're still flipping and looking for it is the third from the last book of the Old Testament.

Third from the last book so find the division between the Testaments start turning toward the left and you will eventually run into it rather quickly. Haggai is the second shortest book of the Old Testament the only book shorter than that is Obadiah which is a prophecy against the nation of Edom.

Haggai is the second shortest book of the Old Testament and it is only quoted in the New Testament one time it's in Hebrews chapter 12 which is something unique about the book of Haggai. There are a number of connections with our Hebrews passages the book of Haggai describes an unshakable kingdom that we are promised.

It describes a judgment that is to come it describes a reward for faithful saints who will be faithful to be obedient in the face of opposition from God's enemies and it promises a reward for those who will obey God in the face of hostility.

Now does that sound familiar? If you've been with us through Hebrews you realize that those are the same themes of Hebrews 10, 11, and 12 that's the very thing that we've been looking at. So it shouldn't surprise us that the author would quote now from the book of Haggai.

Let me give you a little bit of history and put this in some context for you. If you don't understand what we're about to cover here you're going to have to understand a little bit about the context in which Haggai is written.

We're going to cover basically the entire book of Haggai today. So I want this to be something of an encouragement to you on two fronts. Number one if you wonder why is it taking us so long to go through the book of Hebrews it's because we have to go back into the Old Testament and preach whole other books of the Old Testament as we're going through the book of Hebrews.

Two, let it be known that I'm preaching through a whole book of the Bible in one sermon today. We're doing the book of Haggai in one sermon. I'm going to give you an overview of this whole thing. Haggai takes place in the closing decades of our Old Testament timeline in the Old Testament era.

Haggai is the first post-exilic prophet. So when you're reading through your Bible and you get to the end of the book of 2 Chronicles you're reading about the fall and destruction of the nation of Jerusalem and then you get to Ezra and Nehemiah and you read about Zerubbabel's return to rebuild the temple, Ezra's return to reform the people and then Nehemiah's return to rebuild the wall.

Those events take place roughly four and a half, five centuries prior to Christ and that is basically the end of Old Testament revelation history by the time you get there. So now we're going back, in the book of Haggai we're going back to almost five and a half centuries prior to the birth of Christ but it is, keep in mind, toward the end of our Old Testament narrative storyline that we're familiar with in revealed scripture.

He is the first post-exilic prophet, meaning that he was the first prophet to prophesy after the Babylonian exile. We've heard of the Babylonian exile, Babylonian captivity, so to give you a little bit of Old Testament history, Israel had disobeyed the covenant that God made with them in this described actually in Hebrews chapter 12 verses 18 and 19, you remember the Sinai, the terms of that covenant, they had disobeyed that and God's patience ran out with that nation and he sent them into exile so in about 597 -608 somewhere in that neighborhood, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came in and laid siege to the city of Jerusalem, eventually invaded it, Jerusalem fell and that sort of ended the Davidic dynasty of that age and kings were taken, exiled to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar led three deportations of Jews from the city of Jerusalem back to Babylon, he destroyed the wall around the city, he destroyed the temple, wiped out temple worship basically for that whole 70 years and left just a remnant of the poorest and the worst of the Jews in the land of Israel and he took the best and the brightest and the best looking of all the Jews back to Babylon to bring to sort of include them into his culture and his society and that's how Nebuchadnezzar grew his kingdom.

So he had conquered Jerusalem, brought Jews back to Babylon and dispersed the Jewish people, that was the Babylonian captivity, that started in 597 or around 600 BC, 70 years went by, during those 70 years we have Daniel and Obadiah and Ezekiel, those are exilic prophets, Daniel writing from inside Babylon and his lifespan basically spans that entire 70 year captivity.

So 70 years pass and about 538 BC, some Jews return to the land with the king's permission to rebuild their temple and one of the men who returned with that group that came from Babylon was Haggai and he was accompanied by Zerubbabel who was a civic leader of the Jews and Joshua a man named Joshua the high priest who was the religious or spiritual leader of the Jews.

A couple of years later in 536 BC they started rebuilding the temple that was what Zerubbabel went back there for, not just because he liked the barren desert of the Judean landscape but Zerubbabel went back to rebuild the temple of his god he did this of course with the king's permission and Ezra talks about these rebuilding efforts, Ezra comes later but Zerubbabel returned with Zechariah and Haggai and they started the rebuilding project but they came up against opposition from the enemies of God, the book of Ezra describes this opposition and the people stopped they faced opposition and the people suffered from a little bit of apathy and a little bit of indifference and so they stopped the building in the middle of it and they kind of went about their own lives for a period of 14 years passed.

Then in 520 something happened, Ezra chapter 4 says the work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia second year of the reign of Darius the king of Persia what happened in the second year of the reign of Darius the king of Persia, look at Haggai chapter 1 verse 1, in the second year of Darius the king on the first day of the sixth month the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and to Joshua the son of Jehoshadack the high priest saying and then you have this prophecy where the prophets of God begin to encourage the people to start the building project again.

Ezra describes this and Ezra mentions both Zerubbabel and Joshua and Zechariah which is the next book in your Old Testament and Haggai Ezra chapter 5 verse 1 when the prophets Haggai and the prophet Zechariah the son of Edo prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehoshadack arose and began to rebuild the house of God which is in Jerusalem and the prophets of God were with them supporting them. So God raised up two prophets Haggai and Zechariah and he raised up those two prophets so that they would preach to the people prophesy to the people, encourage the people and the people then would be motivated to return back to the rebuilding project on the temple led by Zerubbabel and Joshua.

Their ministry was to comfort and motivate the people to encourage them to pursue holiness. So the idea of holiness is all the way through the book of Haggai and through the book of Zechariah particularly their ministry was to strengthen the people to endure the hostility and to look forward to a kingdom that was to come the kingdom being the ultimate reward for their faithfulness again these themes should sound familiar if you've been with us in the book of Hebrews there is a kingdom that is to come that will reward the faithful.

So endure in faith. Hebrews chapter 11 says. So that you may receive having done what you are supposed to do and may receive that which is promised. Haggai's ministry was to come onto the scene and to tell the people that let's get back to building this temple understanding that God still has a plan for our nation.

There is a kingdom that is to come. There is a king who is coming and with him will be his reward. That's Haggai and Zechariah. That's their ministry. That's their prophecy. Now Haggai is unique because we know the exact date of every message that he preached.

They're given to us in his book. There are four distinct messages that are given over the course of 16 weeks. So he preached four times in 16 weeks and each one of them is dated and given the amount of time that I've been here in the last couple of months you might think that I'm adopting the Haggai model for ministry but that is not my intention at all.

Look at Haggai chapter 1 verse 1 you will notice the date that is given in the second year of Darius the king. We know that that's 520 BC the first day of the sixth month the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel.

That's the first introduction of the first message. Then there was a second message Haggai chapter 2 verse 1. On the 21st of the 7th month the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet. The third message is Haggai chapter 2 verse 10.

On the 24th of the 9th month in the second year of Darius the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet saying. And then the fourth message is Haggai chapter 2 verse 20. Then the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the 24th day of the month.

So you may not think that he's preaching a lot but you have to give him credit because he preaches two messages on the same day. Message 3 and 4 actually delivered maybe a morning and an evening service.

I don't know what but he preaches these four messages over the course of these 16 weeks. The second and the fourth messages are the ones that are our focus. But in order for us to understand and appreciate his entire ministry and everything that he's kind of driving at here I'm going to give you briefly an overview of messages 1 to 3 as well.

Message number 1 is a reproof and an encouragement to build the temple. So remember the temple building had stopped and it stopped for 14 years. The God raised up. Then Haggai and Zechariah and said go preach to the people get them motivated.

They will go back out and they will rebuild the temple. So chapter 1 verse 2 says. Thus says the Lord of hosts. The people says the time has not come even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.

Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet saying is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your panel houses while this house lies desolate now. Therefore thus says the Lord consider your ways.

This message was really straightforward. You people are saying that it's not time to build the house of the Lord. We've had opposition now it's not a good time. It's kind of out of season. We really don't want to do this.

We've had some hostility. God has sort of closed the doors. If God wanted us to do this it would be easy. Right. He would make it easy. It hasn't been easy. Therefore the time has not come. And then Haggai comes on the scene and says.

Oh but it's time for you to build your own house. And yet this place to worship me lies in ruins and desolate. You won't work on this. But you'll build your own houses. So consider your ways. And then in verses 6 through 11 God describes how he was chastening the nation.

Disciplining the nation. Does that theme sound familiar. Hebrews chapter 12. Remember our whole series on discipline that lasted like 90 weeks or something like that we went through. What discipline was.

God chastens the nation through that period of time. And he says I've withheld your blessing. You go out and you sow and then you reap and the reaping and the harvest is thin. And you bring it home and I blow it away.

You're under a curse. Why you say look at verse 9 of chapter 1. You look for much but behold it comes to little. When you bring it home I blow it away. Why declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house which lies desolate.

While each of you runs to his own house you have all the money and time and effort to spend on yourselves doing your own thing building your own kingdom taking care of yourself living in luxury. But when I brought you back here to do you have neglected to do for these last 14 years.

Then verse 12 says the people obey the voice of the Lord through Haggai the prophet. There was encouragement in verse 13. Then Haggai the messenger of the Lord spoke by the commission of the Lord to the people saying I am with you declares the Lord.

This is the encouragement just like Hebrews chapter 13 I will never leave you nor forsake you. That was God's encouragement to the nation. I will be present with you. Chapter 1 verse 14. So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel governor of Judah and the spirit of Joshua the son of Hosea the high priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people.

And they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts their God. Here's another thing that makes Haggai unique among all the other Old Testament prophets. And probably only thinking off the top of my head here probably the only one who had this kind of response like this was Jonah.