The Prophet Isaiah saw Assyrian threat and the fall of the Northern Kingdom. Habbakkuk watched Babylons rise and the coming exile. Jonah spoke against a pagan nation beyond the Lords chosen.
Haggai 'faced in some ways a more trying situation; a time of inertia and apathy when spiritual life had burned low [among Gods people]...' amidst comfort and security in their homeland and a temporarily mild political climate. While politics may raise our blood pressure in our own time I wonder if Gods message through Haggai isn't relevant today.
Are we also less inclined to listen to the Word, discern it's Truth, and act it today. Haggai was called by El-Shaddai - The Lord Almighty - in the midst of this very same corporate attitude - Who among us is called to be the voice of a modern Haggai?
Have you given careful thought to your ways? Inertia and apathy are prowling around like roaring lions...give careful thought.
I believe there's a new generation rising to answer Haggai's challenge.
Read Haggai and Robert Fyalls Bible Speaks Today Commentary