Hosea - Haggai

Hosea mentions walking in Yahvah's ways and Yahvah says consider your ways in Haggai.

Ways

Hosea ends with the statement that the righteous walk in Yahvah's ways and transgressors stumble in them. Then, in Haggai, Yahvah says "Consider your ways."

23 Hosea 14:9
⁹He who is wise, will understand these things; he who is prudent will know them; for the ways of Yahvah are right, and the righteous will walk in them; but transgressors will stumble in them.

24 Haggai 1:5
⁵Now Yahvah of hosts says: Consider your ways.

24 Haggai 1:7
⁷Yahvah of hosts says: Consider your ways.

Yahvah asked everyone to consider thier ways because people's choices were effecting the quality of their lives. They were experiencing a drought and Yahvah, in mercy, showed the lack of prosperity in their fields was linked to their lack of attention to his business, in particular, his house. Eventually the people answer the call to attend to God's house and the word comes that God is going to pour out blessing on them.

Dew

Hosea says God will be as the dew to Israel. In Haggai, because of lack of attention on God's house, God withheld dew from the land.

23 Hosea 14:5-7
⁵I will be as the dew to Israel; he will spring up as the lily, and cast forth his roots as cedars of Lebanon.
⁶His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.
⁷They will return and live under his shadow; they will flourish like grain, and grow as the vine; and their scent will be like the wine of Lebanon.

24 Haggai 1:9-11
⁹You looked for much, and look, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why should these things happen? Because of my house that is waste, and you hurry every man to take care of his own house says Yahvah.
¹⁰Therefore the skies over you have stayed from dew, and the land has withheld its fruit.
¹¹And I have called for a drought on the land and on the mountains, and on the grain, and on the wine, and on the oil, and on everything that the ground brings forth, and on men, and on cattle, and on all the labor of their hands.

Hosea has a hopeful picture of God being like dew to Israel and the land producing. In Haggai it's a drought. The skies withhold their dew, the land it's produce, it's nearly a famine.

Tabernacles

Hosea talks about coming out of Egypt many times.1 One such time talks about living in tents. The annual holiday when everyone leaves home to go live in tents is Tabernacles. It occurs from the 15th day through the 22nd day of the 7th month. The prophet Haggai was also given a word about coming out of Egypt, and it came during Tabernacles.

23 Hosea 12:9
⁹I am Yahvah your god, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the solemn feasts.

24 Haggai 2:1-9
¹In the 7th month, on the 21st day of the month, the word of Yahvah came by the prophet Haggai saying,
²Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to all the rest of the people saying,
³Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Is it not now in your sight considered as nothing?
⁴Yet now be strong Zerubbabel says Yahvah; and be strong Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says Yahvah, and work; for I am with you says Yahvah of hosts.
⁵According to the contract which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remains among you; do not fear.
⁶For Yahvah of hosts says: Once more, in a little while, I will shake the skies and the land and the sea and the dry land;
⁷and I will shake all nations, and they will bring the precious things of all nations; and I will fill the house with glory, says Yahvah of hosts.
⁸The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says Yahvah of hosts.
⁹The glory of this latter house will be greater than that of the former, says Yahvah of hosts; and in this place, I will give peace, says Yahvah of hosts.

By Ryan Eaton
Posted Saturday, Zebulun 1, 13001

1 Hosea 2:15 -- 11:1, 11:11, 12:9, 12:13 and 13:4.