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"'Now think ahead from this same date - this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Think ahead from when the Temple rebuilding was launched.
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Has anything in your fields - vine, fig tree, pomegranate, olive tree - failed to flourish? From now on you can count on a blessing.'"
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God's Message came a second time to Haggai on that most memorable day, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month:
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"Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah:
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overthrow governments, destroy foreign powers, dismantle the world of weapons and armaments, throw armies into confusion, so that they end up killing one another.