Haggai Part 5

G. “...the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory...” (v. 7). 1. The rebuilt temple would have a greater glory than the former one. v. 9. 2. This pertained to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. MAL 3:1. a. Christ is God's glory. ISA 40:5 c/w JOH 1:14. b. Christ is Israel's glory. LUK 2:32. c. Christ is the Gentiles' glory. ISA 11:10 c/w COL 1:27. 3. Immanuel graced the rebuilt temple with His presence on various occasions. LUK 2:27, 46; JOH 2:13-14; 18:20. 4. Eminent parts of the O.T. tabernacle/temple were the furniture and service therein (HEB 9:1-5), but the person of Christ excelled it all in glory. a. There was a candlestick for light. But Christ is: (1) the Light of men. JOH 1:4. (2) the Light of the world. JOH 8:12. (3) the glorious Light which lightens a heavenly city of which He IS the temple. REV 21:22-23. b. There was a table of shewbread set before the Lord which was peculiar to the Aaronic priesthood. LEV 24:5-6, 9. (1) Christ has a priesthood superior to Aaron’s. HEB 7:9, 16-17. (2) Christ is sustenance for all His people. JOH 6:53-58. c. There was a golden censer for offering a sweet incense to God within the veil (LEV 16:12), but Christ made Himself a sweet incense of offering in heaven. EPH 5:2; HEB 10:19-20. d. There was the ark of the covenant which held the tables of the covenant but Christ IS the covenant of the people and in Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ISA 42:6; COL 2:3. e. There was a golden pot with manna in it (EXO 16:33-34) but Christ is the true bread from heaven. JOH 6:48-51. f. There was Aaron's budded rod which proved his office by its life (NUM 17:5) but Christ was a rod/root out of dry ground Who proved His deity and Haggai 10-12-24 Page 7  priesthood by His resurrection. ISA 11:1; 53:2; ROM 1:4. g. There were cherubims over the ark but Christ is over the cherubims. HEB 1:6; REV 5:8. h. Upon the ark was a mercy seat where only an Aaronic priest could commune with God on one day each year (EXO 25:22; LEV 16:2) but the God-man, Christ Jesus, communes with a priesthood of believers in the church at any season. 1PE 2:5; 1CO 10:16; 11:26. 5. The rebuilt temple was also blessed to have the gospel preached within it. ACT 5:20-21, 42. a. It is “...the GLORIOUS gospel of Christ...” (2CO 4:4). b. The New Covenant which was preached in the rebuilt temple is of a greater glory than the Old Covenant which that temple represented. 2CO 3:9-11. 6. Another blessing of the rebuilt temple was “...in this place will I give peace” (v. 9). a. The Prince of Peace (ISA 9:6) would be present there and offer Himself for sin in the environs of the city. b. At the death of Christ, the veil of the temple was rent, indicating the peace established by the offering of Christ for sin. MAT 27:50-51 c/w HEB 10:19-20 c/w COL 1:20. 7. Matthew Henry made this observation about the heart of a saved man: “That is the most valuable glory which arises from our relation to Christ and our interest in him. As, where Christ is, behold a greater than Solomon is there, so the heart in which he dwells, and makes a living temple, behold it is more glorious than Solomon's temple, and will be so to eternity.” 8. “Messiah was not desired by all nations, but ‘a root out of a dry ground, having no beauty that we should desire Him’ (Isa 53:2). But what is implied is not that the nations definitely desired Him, but that He was the only one to satisfy the yearning desires which all felt unconsciously for a Savior, shown in their painful rites and bloody sacrifices.” (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary) H. “The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts” (v. 8). 1. They need not be concerned about the relative absence of the gold and silver that were part of the first temple’s glory. 1CH 29:1-5, 14-16. 2. This temple would one day be graced by the Messiah Whose salvation and gospel were richer than silver and gold. 1PE 1:18-19; ACT 3:6-11. 3. Christ is greater than the temple. MAT 12:5-6. Haggai 10-12-24 Page 8