As in the Days of Haggai

As in the days of Hag­gai when

The He­brews hewed from stone

Jehovah’s tem­ple

built again

To serve their God alone

So too our hearts can be re­made

From stone to flesh—the heav’n­ly blade

Carves out an earth­ly home.

The tem­ple of Ze­rub­ba­bel

Like that of So­lo­mon

Sustained at­tack

gave way

and fell

To rise and fall again.

But when God’s tem­ple died and rose

He kept the pro­mise giv’n to those

Who built the tem­ple then.

God shook the earth and Gen­tiles then

Brought trea­sure to His store

But Heav­en and earth will shake again

When our King comes once more.

Then all that can be shak­en will

Be purged and dross re­moved un­til

He clears His thresh­ing floor.