Haggai: Four Message Cards and One Action Card

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Original BSB-based reading worksheet. The lettered cards are editorial labels, not biblical headings. Dates remain in the text’s system; no modern calendar conversion is needed. No faith or financial-success score is assigned.

Card sheet

Haggai: Four Message Cards and One Action Card
Card and passageDate and audienceInstruction / response
A · 1:1–15Darius year 2, month 6, day 1. Zerubbabel and Joshua named at 1:1; the people also respond.Reconsider priorities and build (1:5–8). Leaders and people obey and begin work (1:12–14).
Action · 1:14–15Darius year 2, month 6, day 24. Leaders and people at work.Dates the beginning of work, not a fifth main message.
B · 2:1–9Month 7, day 21. Year frame from the preceding sequence. Zerubbabel, Joshua and the remaining people (2:2).Compare the house with its former glory; take courage and work (2:3–4). No new progress report in this unit.
C · 2:10–19Darius year 2, month 9, day 24. Priests answer; application extends to the people.Priests answer differently about holiness and defilement (2:12–13). Consider earlier shortages and the foundation date (2:15–19). No harvest recovery is narrated.
D · 2:20–23Day 24 again; same-day frame from 2:10. Directed to Zerubbabel (2:21).Message of overturned royal power and signet-ring imagery (2:22–23). No response by Zerubbabel is narrated here.

Four readings: session 1, A with the action card; session 2, B; session 3, C; session 4, D. For each, read the complete passage, then check date, audience, instruction or promise, and any narrated response.

Seven matching questions

Use A, B, C, D or Action. Cards may repeat. Add a verse.

  1. Day 1 of month 6, Darius year 2. ______

  2. Work begins on day 24 of month 6. ______

  3. A comparison with the house’s former glory. ______

  4. Priests answer two questions about ritual states. ______

  5. A second message that day, directed to Zerubbabel. ______

  6. Bring timber and build. ______

  7. Consider shortages and the foundation date before a blessing promise. ______

Answers with reasons

  1. A — 1:1. The full date opens the first unit.

  2. Action — 1:14–15. The date belongs to work beginning, not to an added fifth main message.

  3. B — 2:2–4. Named leaders and people hear the comparison and encouragement.

  4. C — 2:11–13. The priests answer no to the first question and yes to the second; Haggai applies their ruling in 2:14.

  5. D — 2:20–21. A repeated date does not erase the new speech introduction or the named recipient.

  6. A — 1:8. This concrete instruction belongs before the work-start report.

  7. C — 2:15–19. The promise closes this unit; a resulting harvest is not reported here.

Self-check: supported by the text / reread / not specified. Questions 4 and 7 share a unit because the priestly questions lead into the application.

Reusable card

Passage: __________ Date stated here: __________ Date carried from context: __________

People addressed: __________ Main issue: __________ Instruction or promise: __________

Response actually narrated, with verse: __________ Not specified: __________

Boundary: These messages do not promise that a modern donation or building project will produce wealth, and they cannot establish that a reader’s poverty is their fault.

Sources and return link

Checked against BSB Haggai 1–2 in full. Read BSB Haggai 1 and compare USCCB Haggai 2. Return to the companion guide.

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