The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.
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TSK · Haggai 1:9
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The Gibeonites Demand Revenge During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the LORD. The LORD said,“It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”
I thought about the days of old, about ancient times.
Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”
The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
“Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?
From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say,‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!
That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.
All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!