How firm a foundation,

ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

The writer of Proverbs says,

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

That's the same important message that we'll hear from the Old Testament prophet Haggai

in this study on through the Bible.

I'm Steve Schwartz.

Glad that you're here as we continue to travel through the entire Word of God

with our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

Before we jump into Haggai, though,

we got more of our continuing introductions on God's judgments.

Here's Dr. McGee now.

Now, Isaiah had something to say about it.

In fact, a great deal.

In Isaiah, the 26th chapter at verse 20, he says, come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, shut thy doors about thee, hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment until the indignation be overpass.

That's a great tribulation. For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity,

the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain.

In other words, that's also going to be the judgment of the nations.

And we're going to look at that also, but probably at another time, because we don't want to take too much

time in these introductory matters. Now, the scripture has a great deal to say about this. If you go

over to the prophecy of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, he says, but who may abide the day of his coming?

Now that's chapter three, verse two.

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