Haggai 2:20-23

God's promise to Zerubbabel -- Haggai 2:20-23 The Lord gave Haggai a special message for Zerubbabel. It was God's plan to raise up a new leader for His people and that leader would be Zerubbabel. God promised to overthrow the heathen nations by turning them against each other in battle. God's message was, "tell my servant Zerubbabel that I, the Lord All-Powerful, have chosen him, and he will rule in my name." In Jeremiah 22:24-25 we read "As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans." God put Zerubbabel in the position of a great king and also placed him in the lineage of Jesus. God called Zerubbabel His "servant" and "chosen" Just as He had referred to David. The Lord desired to restore the glory of the David's throne in the days of Zerubbabel. There was still a glorious future for the Jewish nation in the coming of Jesus as man's only hope.