Haggai is a report on the utterances of the prophet Haggai during the second year of the reign of Darius, king of the Persian Empire, in the postexilic period. The prophet is singularly concerned with the rebuilding of the Temple, which is essential to restoring the nation’s religious purity. Haggai also believes that a great messianic age is at hand.

Haggai 2

2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: