The Glory Of This House Of This House. Best Is Yet To Come

The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the Lord of hosts.

My brothers and sisters, we are living in a time when it’s easy to feel like the best moments of our lives have already passed us by.

We look at our youth, our health, our opportunities, and sometimes we wonder:

Have my best days already gone by?

Has my time passed me by?

Is it all over for me?

I came with a word from the Lord today: The best is yet to come.

Look at your neighbor and say: Neighbor, I don’t know what you’ve been through, but the best is yet to come.

Come on tell another neighbor. Say Neighbor, my past may have been rocky, it may have been a little rough, it may have been painful, but my future is powerful.

When we look at the text, the prophet Haggai was speaking to a discouraged people. They had returned from the Babylonian exile, and when they saw the ruins of Solomon’s glorious, beautiful and magnificent temple, they felt defeated.

They felt defeated because the new temple they now have looked smaller, it looked weaker, and it looked less impressive than the one they had lost.

But God spoke through Haggai and said: The glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former.”

Church, when Haggai spoke this word, the people of God were discouraged.

They looked at the temple that they were rebuilding and said, “This doesn’t compare to the glory we used to have.”

I can hear them say wait a minute our last temple had stain glass, our last temple had a steeple on top of it. Our last temple, or our last church, had beautiful Pews, and chandeliers, this does look like what we are use to.

But, I love what God did. God interrupted their despair with a prophecy: and he had the prophet, or the preacher to say that the glory of the latter house, the glory of this house, shall be greater than the former.”

That wasn’t just a word for Israel, but that’s a a word for this house. And that is a word for you and I. I came to tell somebody this morning: God is not finished with you yet. The best is yet to come.

What God was telling His people was, don’t measure what I’m about to do by what you’ve seen before.

Don’t measure what you have been through, by what I’m going to take you to.

Because what I’m about to release in your life, will surpass what you’ve lost.

What I’m about to do for you, (wait a minute) come here 1st Corinthians 2:9, 1st Corinthians But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Is there anybody here that loves him. If you do, then you need to prepare for the things that God is preparing for you.

My first point is that God is not finished with you yet.

The people thought the temple’s glory was over. But God had a “yet to come” moment waiting.

The people believed the temple’s glory had ended, but God had a greater “yet to come” in stored for them.

They assumed the temple’s best days were behind them, but God was preparing a powerful “yet to come” revelation.

Some of you may think that you have peaked out, but God says, “I still have more for you.”

If you’re still breathing, God still has purpose.

If you’re still standing, God still has glory to reveal.

Don’t write your ending, while God is still writing your beginning.

May I tell you: Don’t Judge Your Future by Your Past

The people compared their new temple with Solomon’s old temple. They were stuck in yesterday’s glory.

Hear me: God is not a God of just yesterday only, but He is the God of tomorrow.

If you survived what tried to kill you, that means God still has work for you.

If the enemy couldn’t take you out in your last storm, it’s because your next season has greater glory.

Say this out loud: “My next season will be greater than my last.

My Second point is. Your latter house speaks to your future.

Haggai’s prophecy wasn’t just about bricks and stones. It was a foreshadowing of Christ. The latter glory wasn’t in the physical building, but it was in the presence of Jesus who would one day walk in that very temple.

What does that mean for us? It means the best is not behind you; the best is in the presence of Jesus Christ ahead of you.