The desire of all the nations, His conception foretold!

“And the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts” (Haggai 2:7).

The desire of all the nations is none other than the Messiah. Daniel helps to confirm the desire being Jesus when he describes the ‘antichrist’ as not “regarding the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women” (Daniel 11:37). What is the desire of women? The desire of women is the “seed of the woman” who will “bruise the head of the seed of the serpent” (Genesis 3:15). This cosmic war declared in Genesis 3 finding its conclusion in Revelation 20 is between the Devil and his seed and the LORD and the seed of the woman. Jesus is the desire of women because it would be a woman that would carry this special seed and not a man.

The woman turned out to be Mary who was espoused to Joseph although she had not known him ‘physically’. Mary would carry the Son a man-child who scripture reveals is the stone cut out of a mountain without hands (Daniel 2). Jesus is also called in scripture the stone which the builders rejected (Psalm 118).

This stone is tied to the prophet Haggai’s revelation that the Glory of the second temple would be greater than the first, as the desire of all the nations shall come and the Lord shall fill the house with His glory. Haggai later writes, “In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet saying… 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… Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid Consider it” (Haggai 2:10, 15, 18).

What are we to consider? The Lord tells us to consider three times over four verses, what does He want us to consider? Consider, even from the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid. Consider from this day onward. Consider thinking about this all when the foundation of this second temple is laid. The foundation is the foundation of a human body. What is the foundation of a human body? Conception!

“Is the seed yet in the barn?” (Haggai 2:19). What seed? The seed of the woman, the desire of women, the desire of all the nations, is that seed yet in the barn? This 24th day of the ninth month the foundation of the second temple is laid as the seed is implanted into a woman named Mary. The Hebrew word for barn is a feminine word which is a temporary abode for seed. What is the temporary abode for seed? A Womb or A Barn.

“Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth; from this day I will bless you” (Haggai 2:19). The vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, none of these has brought forth fruit. These reference to the kings of Israel, the nation of Israel, the priests of Israel, and the witnesses of Israel prospectively and none of these has brought forth fruit, but from this very day I will bless you.

Consider the first coming of our Lord on the eve of the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, the light of the world was conceived in the virgin womb of Mary as the Holy Spirit of God overshadowed her. Consider it, the desire of all women and of all the nations, the seed of a woman, the chief cornerstone, the foundation was laid on the four and twentieth day of the ninth month.