4. There are four parts: I. The first Vision given to Haggai in the second year, sixth month, and first day of Darius (Haggai 1). II. The second Vision given to the same in the seventh month of the same year, and the twenty-first day (Haggai 2:1-9). III. The third vision seen in the ninth month of the same year, on the twenty-fourth day (Haggai 2:10-19). IV. The fourth vision seen on the same day (Haggai 2:20-23). A Synoptic Table of the book, and its Interpreters, Ancient, Reformed, Lutheran, Roman Catholic.
The four visions made to Haggai are chiefly commemorated in this book:Â whence just so many parts of the Prophecy are able to be designated.
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I. The first Vision given to Haggai in Darius’ second year, in the first day of the sixth month, Chapter 1.
Wherein, after the title of the Prophecy (verse 1), the Prophet, accusing the people in the name of God on account of their neglected care of rebuilding the Temple (verses 2-6), gravely exhorts the same earnestly to apply themselves to that work (verses 7-11), with Zerubbabel and Joshua obediently complying (verse 12), to whom the help of God is promised (verses 13-15):Â chapter 1.
II. The second Vision given to the same in the seventh month of the same year, on the twenty-seventh day, Chapter 2:1-9.
Wherein God through the Prophet confirms Zerubbabel and Joshua in the work begun with the promise of the presence of Jehovah (verses 1-4), and of the desire of the nations being about to come to that Temple, after the shaking of heaven and earth, and being about to illuminate that with His own glory (verses 5-9): chapter 2:1-9.
III. The third Vision seen in the ninth month of the same year, on the twenty-fourth day, Chapter 2:10-19.
Wherein God, with the people reproved for hypocrisy, and with the preceding judgment of a diminished production in crops and wine recalled to mind, excites the same, beginning to rebuild the Temple, to the hope of blessing according to the law of Moses (verses 10-19): chapter 2:10-19.
IV. The fourth Vision, seen on the same day, Chapter 2:20-23.
Wherein, after repeated prediction of the shaking of heaven and earth, and the overthrowing of the throne of Kings, the election of Zerubbabel (of Christ, his seed), as a servant and signet on the hand of God, is promised (verses 20-23): chapter 2:20-23.