First and Second Chronicles by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802420121
Publisher: Moody Press

At this point in the books of Chronicles, the writer has not yet reached the same level of expectation that characterizes Haggai’s prophecy. He is content to let David and the people rejoice over the freewill offering of God’s chosen. But as he later reveals, the magnitude of his hope for the future is equal to that of Haggai. The former Temple, glorious as it was, would not equal in splendor that later Temple to be built by the promised Son of David. As he describes the final ruin of that former Temple, whose valuables were stolen or destroyed (2 Chron. 36:18-21), his hope can be seen in his refusal to let the book end there. God’s promises are sure and He is at work in the hearts of the nations. He has stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom: “The LORD, the God of heaven, has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up” (2 Chron. 36:23). This is nothing less than the same kind of hope as Haggai’s seizing on the latest newspaper headline, Cyrus’s decree. The chronicler sees in the edict of Cyrus the same range of expectation envisioned by Haggai. The former Temple was great, but whatever its splendor, a new Temple lies just ahead, incomparable in splendor to the former one and built by the “wealth of all the nations” (Hag. 2:7).

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