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Consider Your Ways

Haggai calls out a people too busy to finish the temple, Zechariah engraves holiness on everyday life, and we look ahead to the endowment

  • 🏔️ Youth 16–18
  • Week 50
  • 📅 Sunday, December 13, 2026
🤔 Forehead Guess🏆 Showdown
💡 The big idea

When I put the Lord and His house first, He makes my ordinary life holy, cleanses me through Jesus Christ, and helps me do what I can’t do by my own might.

I can consider my ways, put the temple first, and prepare now for the covenants of the endowment.

Study it yourself firstRead Haggai 1–2; Zechariah 1–4; 7–14 in Gospel LibraryCome, Follow Me manualOpen this week (Haggai 1–2; Zechariah 1–4; 7–14)
Know the chapters

Cyrus of Persia let the Jews go home from Babylon to rebuild the temple. They laid the foundation with shouting and weeping (Ezra 3:10–13), then opposition hit and the work stopped (Ezra 4:4–5, 24). Roughly fifteen years later, about 520 B.C., the prophets Haggai and Zechariah stirred them up (Haggai 1:1; Ezra 5:1). Haggai’s charge was blunt: you live in paneled houses while the Lord’s house lies in ruins (Haggai 1:4). Consider your ways: you sow much and harvest little, and your wages go into “a bag with holes” (1:5–6). The people, led by Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest, went back to work, and the temple was finished about four years later (Ezra 6:15). Centuries later, enlarged by Herod, it was the temple where Jesus taught. The Lord gave the early Saints a similar rebuke when they delayed the Kirtland Temple (Doctrine and Covenants 95:3–8).

Zechariah adds visions and some of the clearest Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament. In chapter 3, Joshua the high priest stands in filthy clothes while Satan accuses him; the Lord has the filthy garments removed, clothes him in clean raiment and puts a clean turban (a “fair mitre”) on his head. It is a picture of what only the Savior can do for us. In chapter 4 the Lord tells Zerubbabel the temple will be finished “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit” (4:6), and asks who would despise “the day of small things” (4:10). Zechariah also foresaw the King riding on a donkey (9:9; Matthew 21:1–11), thirty pieces of silver (11:12–13; Matthew 26:14–15; 27:3–7), the one who was pierced (12:10; John 19:34–37), the smitten Shepherd (13:7; Matthew 26:31) and the wounds in His hands shown at His Second Coming (13:6; Doctrine and Covenants 45:51–52).

The phrase to build today around is Zechariah 14:20: in that day even the bells on the horses and the cooking pots will be inscribed HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. Latter-day Saint temples carry those words, and Zechariah pictures them on the most ordinary objects of daily life. For 16- to 18-year-olds, that is the bridge to the endowment. Many of them will receive it within a year or two, before a mission or a temple marriage. The Church’s page “About the Temple Endowment” openly explains that endowed members covenant to live the law of obedience, the law of sacrifice, the law of the gospel, the law of chastity and the law of consecration, and receive the temple garment as a reminder. You can talk about those covenants plainly. Do not go beyond what the Church publishes, and point deeper questions to parents, the bishop and the temple preparation course.

Keep today honest and practical. Teens have real, good things competing for their time: school, work, sports, friends, screens. Haggai never tells the people to stop farming or building homes; he tells them to put the Lord’s house first and watch what happens to everything else.

Only have 5 minutes?

Read Haggai 1:2–9, Zechariah 3:1–5 and Zechariah 14:20–21. Run the Consider Your Ways hook, let Teach Mode run Finish the House, then spend most of your time on the Holiness to the Lord scripture step and the Getting Ready for the Temple discussion. Close with why the temple matters to you.

What to bring4 items

Tick what you have. Forgot something? Every step that needs a supply has a no-supplies version in the plan below.

Before class

  1. Read Haggai 1–2 and Zechariah 3–4 and 14. They are short.
  2. Make the Messiah Match slips. Prophecies: Zechariah 9:9 · Zechariah 11:12–13 · Zechariah 12:10 · Zechariah 13:7 · Zechariah 13:6. Fulfillments: Matthew 21:1–11 · Matthew 26:14–15 · John 19:34–37 · Matthew 26:31 · Doctrine and Covenants 45:51–52. Keep the two piles separate.
  3. Check your own phone’s weekly screen-time number. You’ll go first in the hook, and your honesty gives them permission to be honest.
  4. Skim the Church’s “About the Temple Endowment” page so you can describe the covenants accurately and simply.
  5. Ask a recently endowed young adult or returned missionary in your ward whether they’d join class for two minutes to answer temple-prep questions (optional but powerful).

If your class is wild

  • Never shame anyone’s screen time. Make the hook about everyone, including you, noticing where life leaks.
  • The Human Blueprint wiggle gets loud and silly. Let it; then use the quiet you earn for the temple discussion.
  • Some youth may feel they’ll never be “worthy enough” for the temple. Zechariah 3 is your answer: the Lord is the one who changes the clothes.
  • Let youth run the Messiah Match: one team captain reads prophecies, the other reads fulfillments.
  • If someone asks a temple question you can’t or shouldn’t answer, say, “That’s a great one for your parents or the bishop,” and mean it.

The 25-minute plan25 min + bonus

Bonus steps are for when you have extra time. Steps that mention Teach Mode, the Sound Board or other class games refer to the Gospel Sparks app; on the web you can play Forehead Guess and Scripture Showdown from this page.

1. Hook

Consider Your Ways

3 min

An honest look at where our week goes sets up Haggai’s wake-up call.

  1. SAY“I’ll go first.” Share your own weekly screen time from your phone and react honestly.
  2. SAY“No one has to share, but if you’re brave, what does yours say? Just guess if you don’t want to look.” Take a few volunteers and laugh together.
  3. Ask: “Roughly how many hours a week go to school? Work? Sports? Sleep? And to the Lord: church, seminary, scriptures, prayer, temple?” Don’t tally; just let the comparison sit.
  4. Have a youth read Haggai 1:4–6. Say: “These people weren’t doing bad things. They were building houses and farming. But they kept telling themselves the Lord’s house could wait. What’s in your bag with holes?”
🌪️ If someone brags about a huge number, laugh with them and move on quickly. The point is noticing, not ranking.

Class screen: 📱 Where does your week actually go? · Haggai 1:4–6 · Consider your ways

2. Story

Scripture Scene: Finish the House

5 min

Youth act out the rebuilding of the temple and see how the Lord helps people who put His house first.

  1. Hand out roles (tap Roles in Teach Mode). Haggai and Zechariah read their verses from the scriptures; you read the Lord’s and the angel’s words in scene 5.
  2. Read each scene or hand the narration to a strong reader, and pause for the action cue.
  3. After the last scene, ask: “The Old-Timers thought the new temple was a letdown. Why do you think the Lord said its glory would be greater?”
🌪️ Give the loudest youth Haggai. He was not subtle.

Class screen: 🏗️ Finish the House · Haggai 1–2 · Zechariah 3–4 · Builders: haul, stall, rebuild

3. Wiggle break

Human Blueprint

2 min

A fast team challenge burns energy and reviews the images from Haggai and Zechariah.

  1. Split into two or three teams. Say: “I’ll call out something from today. You have 15 seconds to build it with your bodies. Best build wins the round.”
  2. Call: a temple spire · a mountain becoming a plain · a bag with holes · a horse with bells · a King riding a donkey (no one plays the King; show the donkey and the crowd waving palms).
  3. Judge fast and dramatically. Say: “Not by might, nor by power… but that was a mighty good bag with holes.”
⏱️ Big Timer (a class game in the Gospel Sparks app)

Class screen: 🧍 Human Blueprint: build it with your bodies in 15 seconds · Temple spire · Mountain to plain · Bag with holes

4. Scripture

Holiness to the Lord, on Everything

4 min

Zechariah 14:20 shows that the Lord wants holiness in ordinary life, which is the heart of temple covenants.

  1. Read Zechariah 14:20–21 together. Explain: bells on horses were everyday transportation; pots were for cooking. Zechariah pictures them engraved like the temple itself.
  2. SAY“Our temples carry the words ‘Holiness to the Lord.’ Zechariah pictures them on your commute and your kitchen.” Teach the motions and say the verse together twice.
  3. Hand out sticky notes. Each person writes HOLINESS TO THE LORD and sticks it on the back of their phone, wallet or car keys for the week.
  4. Ask: “If this were really engraved on your phone, what would you still do, and what would you stop doing?” Take three or four answers.

Class screen: 🔔 Holiness unto the Lord, even on the horses’ bells · Zechariah 14:20 · What would you engrave it on?

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: Sticky notes, one per person, and a few pens

  1. Read Zechariah 14:20–21 together. Explain: bells on horses were everyday transportation; pots were for cooking. Zechariah pictures them engraved like the temple itself.
  2. SAY“Our temples carry the words ‘Holiness to the Lord.’ Zechariah pictures them on your commute and your kitchen.” Teach the motions and say the verse together twice.
  3. Everyone holds up one ordinary thing they carry (phone, keys, shoes, backpack) and traces “Holiness to the Lord” on it with a finger.
  4. Ask: “If this were really engraved on it, what would you still do, and what would you stop doing?” Take three or four answers.
5. Game

Messiah Match

4 min

A scripture race shows how precisely Zechariah foresaw Jesus Christ, and builds cross-referencing skills.

  1. Split into two teams with scriptures. Team A gets the five Zechariah slips; Team B gets the five fulfillment slips.
  2. SAY“Team A reads a prophecy out loud. Team B races to find which fulfillment matches, reads it, and explains the match. Then swap readers.”
  3. Go fast: Zechariah 9:9 → Matthew 21:1–11 · 11:12–13 → Matthew 26:14–15 · 12:10 → John 19:34–37 · 13:7 → Matthew 26:31 · 13:6 → Doctrine and Covenants 45:51–52.
  4. Ask: “Which one surprised you most? What does it tell you that these details were written 500 years early?”

Class screen: 🧩 Messiah Match: Zechariah saw Jesus Christ 500 years early · Find the fulfillment · Read it · Explain it

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: Scriptures for each pair (their own, a classroom set from the library, or Gospel Library on their phones), Ten Messiah Match slips (see prep): five Zechariah prophecies and five New Testament or Doctrine and Covenants fulfillments

  1. Split into two teams. You read a Zechariah prophecy aloud from your scriptures: 9:9 · 11:12–13 · 12:10 · 13:7 · 13:6.
  2. The first team to stand and name the event it points to gets the point: the triumphal entry, thirty pieces of silver, the spear at the cross, the disciples scattering, and the wounds in His hands shown at the Second Coming.
  3. After each one, read the fulfillment reference aloud (Matthew 21:1–11 · Matthew 26:14–15 · John 19:34–37 · Matthew 26:31 · Doctrine and Covenants 45:51–52).
  4. Ask: “Which one surprised you most? What does it tell you that these details were written 500 years early?”
6. Game

Forehead Guess: Temple Builders

4 minBONUS

A fun review round if you have time.

  1. Tap Forehead Guess. A volunteer holds your phone or tablet to their forehead; the class gives clues without saying the word.
  2. Tilt down for got it, up to pass. 45-second turns.
▶ Play Forehead Guess on the web

Class screen: 🤔 Forehead Guess: Temple Builders edition

7. Game

Scripture Showdown

5 minBONUS

A team quiz to review Haggai and Zechariah.

  1. Split into two teams; captains answer after a five-second huddle.
  2. Steal rule: a missed question can be stolen by naming the verse.
▶ Play Scripture Showdown on the web

Class screen: 🏆 Scripture Showdown

8. Talk it over

Getting Ready for the Temple

5 min

An honest conversation about preparing for the endowment, grounded in Haggai and Zechariah.

  1. SAY“Many of you will receive your endowment in the next year or two, before a mission or a temple marriage. Let’s talk about it plainly.”
  2. Ask one question at a time. Wait for real answers, and share your own experience of preparing.
  3. If a recently endowed young adult joined you, let them answer the last question.
💬 Ask the class
  • Haggai’s people kept saying the temple could wait. What pushes the temple to “someday” for people your age?
  • In Zechariah 3, Joshua can’t clean his own clothes; the Lord changes them. How does that picture the Savior’s Atonement? How could it help someone who feels they’ll never be “good enough” for the temple?
  • The Church explains that the endowment includes covenants to live the laws of obedience, sacrifice, the gospel, chastity and consecration. Which of those are you already practicing right now?
  • Zechariah 4:10 asks who would despise “the day of small things.” What small things now are preparing you for the temple later?
  • What questions about the temple would you like to ask a parent, leader or recently endowed missionary? Who could you ask this week?

Class screen: 🏛️ Getting ready for the temple

9. Testimony

Testimony & the Temple Trip

2 min

End calm, with a concrete step toward the temple this week.

  1. Lower your voice. Share in a minute what the temple has meant to you, or what you felt the first time you went.
  2. SAY“The Lord told Zerubbabel it wouldn’t be finished by might or power, but by His Spirit. The same is true of you.”
  3. Introduce the challenge on the screen, and invite a youth to offer the closing prayer.

Class screen: 🔔 Put the Lord’s house first and watch what happens · Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit

Story drama

Finish the House

Ezra 3–6; Haggai 1–2; Zechariah 3–4 ↗

Parts to hand out

  • NarratorReads the setup of each scene like a documentary host.
  • HaggaiThe blunt prophet: reads Haggai 1:4–6 and Haggai 2:4 from the scriptures.
  • ZechariahThe visionary prophet: describes his visions and reads Zechariah 4:6.
  • ZerubbabelThe governor who leads the rebuilding; lays the first and last stone.
  • Joshua the High PriestStands in “filthy garments” in Zechariah’s vision (pantomime), then receives clean ones.
  • The Old-TimersTwo youth who remember Solomon’s glorious temple and aren’t impressed by this one.
  • BuildersEveryone else: haul stones, get distracted building their own houses, then come back to work.

Scenes

  1. 🏜️🧱 Home from Babylon, the foundation goes down

    After about seventy years of exile, the Jews come home. They lay the temple’s foundation, and the sound is wild: many shouting for joy, and old people weeping because they remember Solomon’s temple. You can’t tell the cheering from the crying.

    🎬 Builders stack imaginary stones. Half cheer, the Old-Timers sob dramatically, all at once.

  2. 🏠✨ The work stops. Nice houses go up instead.

    Enemies oppose them and the work stops. One year becomes about fifteen. People say, “The time is not come.” Meanwhile they build themselves beautiful homes with paneled walls.

    🎬 Builders turn their backs on the foundation and start admiring their own imaginary kitchens and walls.

  3. 📣👜 Haggai: “Consider your ways”

    Then Haggai shows up. You plant a lot and harvest little. You eat and you’re still hungry. You earn wages and put them in a bag with holes. Consider your ways! Go up the mountain, bring wood, and build the house.

    🎬 Haggai reads Haggai 1:4–6. Builders pat their empty pockets and look at the floor where the coins fell out.

  4. 👴😕 Nothing compared to Solomon’s temple?

    The people get back to work. But the Old-Timers look at it and shake their heads: compared to the old temple, this is nothing. Haggai delivers the Lord’s answer: be strong, work, for I am with you. The glory of this house will be greater than the first.

    🎬 Old-Timers cross their arms. Haggai reads Haggai 2:4. Builders flex and go back to hauling stones.

  5. 🧥✨ Zechariah’s vision: filthy clothes made clean

    Zechariah sees Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord in filthy clothes, with Satan accusing him. Joshua can’t clean himself up. The angel, speaking for the Lord, commands: take away the filthy garments. Joshua is clothed in clean raiment and a clean turban.

    🎬 Joshua pantomimes pulling at dirty sleeves, head down. Teacher reads Zechariah 3:4. Joshua mimes putting on a clean robe and lifts his head.

  6. ⛰️➡️🟫 “Not by might, nor by power”

    Zerubbabel faces a mountain of work. The Lord says the job will be finished not by army strength or human power, but by His Spirit. The mountain will become flat ground. And who would dare despise the day of small things?

    🎬 Zechariah reads Zechariah 4:6. Builders slowly lower from standing tall (a mountain) to lying flat (a plain).

  7. 🏛️🎉 Four years later: the house is finished

    Four years after Haggai’s wake-up call, the temple is finished and dedicated with joy. It isn’t as grand as Solomon’s. But one day, enlarged and beautified, this same temple will be where Jesus Christ teaches. Haggai was right: its glory would be greater.

    🎬 Zerubbabel sets the last imaginary stone. Everyone shouts together: “Holiness to the Lord!”

Key verse

Zechariah 14:20 ↗
“In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.”
In plain words: One day even ordinary things, like a horse’s bells or a cooking pot, will be as holy as the sacred things in the temple. The Lord wants holiness in everyday life, not just on Sunday.
🙌 Point to something ordinary you carry (phone, keys, shoes) on “bells of the horses” · trace an engraving in the air on “HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD” · cup your hands like a bowl on “like the bowls before the altar.” Say it twice.

More verses

Haggai 1:5–6 ↗
“Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.”
In plain words: Think hard about how you’re living. You’re working hard but never feel full or warm, like putting your paycheck in a bag with holes.
Zechariah 3:4 ↗
“And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.”
In plain words: Take off his dirty clothes. Look, I have taken away your sins, and I will dress you in clean clothes.
Zechariah 4:6 ↗
“Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.”
In plain words: The work won’t get done by muscle or influence, but by the Lord’s Spirit.
Zechariah 9:9 ↗
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.”
In plain words: Celebrate, Jerusalem! Your King is coming. He is righteous and brings salvation, and He comes humbly, riding a young donkey.

Forehead Guess words16 words

  • 📣 Haggai
  • 🔭 Zechariah
  • 🧱 Zerubbabel
  • 🧥 Joshua the High Priest
  • 👜 Bag with Holes
  • 🏠 Paneled Houses
  • 👑 Cyrus
  • 🧱 Foundation
  • 🫏 Donkey
  • 🪙 Thirty Pieces of Silver
  • ⛰️ Mount of Olives
  • 🔔 Holiness to the Lord
  • 🏛️ Endowment
  • ✨ Clean Clothes
  • 🕊️ Spirit
  • 🌱 Small Things
Clues for each word
  • Haggai: Prophet who said, “Consider your ways”
  • Zechariah: Prophet of visions who saw the King on a donkey
  • Zerubbabel: Governor who led the temple rebuilding
  • Joshua the High Priest: His filthy garments were replaced with clean ones
  • Bag with Holes: Where wages go when the Lord isn’t first
  • Paneled Houses: What the people built instead of the temple
  • Cyrus: Persian king who let the Jews go home
  • Foundation: Laid with shouting and weeping, then abandoned
  • Donkey: The humble King rides one in Zechariah 9:9
  • Thirty Pieces of Silver: Zechariah 11:12, fulfilled with Judas
  • Mount of Olives: Zechariah 14:4: it splits when the Lord stands on it
  • Holiness to the Lord: Engraved on temples and, one day, horses’ bells
  • Endowment: Temple ordinance with covenants, often before a mission
  • Clean Clothes: What the Lord gave Joshua in Zechariah 3
  • Spirit: Not by might, nor by power, but by this
  • Small Things: Don’t despise the day of these
▶ Play Forehead GuessFull screen, 60-second timer, works on any phone.

Scripture Showdown9 questions

  1. What did the returned Jews build while the temple sat unfinished?
    • A. Paneled houses for themselves
    • B. A new city wall
    • C. A palace for Cyrus
    Show answer

    ✅ A. Paneled houses for themselves Haggai 1:4: “Is it time for you… to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?”

  2. Haggai said wages were going into a bag with what?
    • A. Gold
    • B. Holes
    • C. Seeds
    Show answer

    ✅ B. Holes Haggai 1:6. When the Lord isn’t first, effort leaks away.

  3. Who governed Judah while the temple was rebuilt?
    • A. Nehemiah
    • B. Cyrus
    • C. Zerubbabel
    Show answer

    ✅ C. Zerubbabel Haggai 1:1. Joshua was the high priest at the same time.

  4. In Zechariah’s vision, what did the Lord do for Joshua the high priest?
    • A. Replaced his filthy garments with clean ones
    • B. Gave him a sword
    • C. Sent him back to Babylon
    Show answer

    ✅ A. Replaced his filthy garments with clean ones Zechariah 3:4: “I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee.”

  5. Complete it: “Not by might, nor by power, but by…”
    • A. “…my holy law”
    • B. “…my spirit”
    • C. “…the work of your hands”
    Show answer

    ✅ B. “…my spirit” Zechariah 4:6, spoken to Zerubbabel about finishing the temple.

  6. Zechariah 9:9 was fulfilled when Jesus…
    • A. Was born in Bethlehem
    • B. Walked on water
    • C. Rode into Jerusalem on a donkey
    Show answer

    ✅ C. Rode into Jerusalem on a donkey Matthew 21:1–11: the triumphal entry, a humble King.

  7. Which Zechariah prophecy matches Judas’s betrayal price?
    • A. Thirty pieces of silver
    • B. Bells of the horses
    • C. A bag with holes
    Show answer

    ✅ A. Thirty pieces of silver Zechariah 11:12–13 and Matthew 26:14–15.

  8. Zechariah 14:20 says “Holiness unto the Lord” will be on horses’…
    • A. Saddles
    • B. Bells
    • C. Horseshoes
    Show answer

    ✅ B. Bells Even ordinary things will be as holy as the temple.

  9. Who told the Saints they’d delayed building the Kirtland Temple?
    • A. Nobody; they finished early
    • B. The Lord, in Doctrine and Covenants 95
    • C. The governor of Ohio
    Show answer

    ✅ B. The Lord, in Doctrine and Covenants 95 Doctrine and Covenants 95:3–8: a latter-day “consider your ways.”

▶ Play Scripture ShowdownTeams take turns on one screen.

Songs

  • Redeemer of Israel Hymns, no. 6

    A hymn about the Lord gathering His scattered people home, just like the exiles Haggai and Zechariah called to rebuild. Find it ↗

  • High on the Mountain Top Hymns, no. 5

    The mountain of the Lord’s house, which Haggai told the people to go up and build. Find it ↗

  • Joy to the World Hymns, no. 201

    “Behold, thy King cometh” (Zechariah 9:9), just in time for December. Find it ↗

This week’s challenge

Engrave Your Week

Keep the “Holiness to the Lord” note on your phone or keys all week. Each day, do one thing that puts the Lord’s house first: go to the temple if you can, schedule a trip, work on family names, read the Church’s “About the Temple Endowment” page with a parent, or ask someone endowed what helped them prepare.

Text the parents

Today in class we studied Haggai and Zechariah. The Jews had stalled on rebuilding the temple for about 15 years while building nice homes, and Haggai told them, “Consider your ways” (Haggai 1:5). Zechariah saw “Holiness unto the Lord” engraved even on horses’ bells (Zechariah 14:20). We talked about preparing for the temple endowment. Ask your youth: “What made you think about the temple today, and what questions do you have that I could help with?”

📝 After class

What worked? Who needs a check-in this week? Jot it here on a printed copy, or in the app’s private class notes.

Got extra time?

👜 Bag with Holes · 3 min

  1. Hold up a paper bag with holes in the bottom. Drop coins in one at a time while naming a teen’s week: “paycheck… birthday money… eight hours of sleep… free period…”, as they fall through.
  2. Read Haggai 1:6 and Haggai 2:18–19.
  3. Ask: “What patches the holes? What did the Lord promise once they put His house first?”

🏛️ Latter-day Haggai · 5 min

  1. Read Doctrine and Covenants 95:3–8 and Haggai 1:2–8 side by side.
  2. List what’s the same: a delayed temple, a rebuke, a promise of power for those who build.
  3. Ask: “Why does the Lord care so much about temples being built, in Haggai’s day, in 1833 and now?”

🕊️ Truth and Peace · 4 min

  1. Read Zechariah 7:9–10 and 8:16–17. In pairs, list the everyday commands (true judgment, mercy, compassion, speak truth, no false oaths).
  2. Ask: “Which of these would change your group chats the most?”

Sources

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version, the Bible used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tap or click a reference to open it in Gospel Library. Start with the official Come, Follow Me manual; these ideas are here to help it come alive.

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