Haggai

This is what the Lord Almighty says: These people say, "The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord's house." Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin? Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build My house. (Haggai 1:2-8)

The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house, says the Lord Almighty. And in this place I will grant peace. (Haggai 2:9). Christians interpret this as fulfilled by Jesus Christ, who walked in the Second Temple, making its glory surpass Solomon's Temple — not through physical grandeur but through the presence of the Messiah himself.

On that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you. (Haggai 2:23). This messianic prophecy points to Zerubbabel as an ancestor of Jesus Christ, restoring the Davidic line that had been "removed" like a signet ring under Jeconiah (Jeremiah 22:24).