{"id":3069,"date":"2026-06-12T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:52:32","slug":"june-14-2026-haggai-1-finish-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3069","title":{"rendered":"June 14, 2026 &#8211; Haggai 1 &#8211; &#8216;Finish the Temple!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haggai was a prophet who accompanied Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the Jewish mission to rebuild the Temple. After &#8220;the people of the land&#8221; convinced the Persian king Cambyses to order the Jews to stop their work, the Temple remained unfinished for years. But when a new king Darius took the throne, he reversed Cambyses&#8217; policies. Still the Jews did nothing. So Haggai delivered a scathing message exhorting them to finish the Temple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Haggai1_Notes.pdf\">Notes in Haggai 1:1-15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haggai was a prophet who accompanied Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the Jewish mission to rebuild the Temple. After &#8220;the people of the land&#8221; convinced the Persian king Cambyses to order the Jews to stop their work, the Temple remained unfinished &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}