God's people were defiled, unclean and unacceptable; though struck and afflicted they persisted unrepentant; and they saw nothing but fruitless futility - and suddenly God said "But from this day on I will bless you." Come, people of God, and hear from Haggai 2:10-19 how it is that God has blessed His people in Christ, whose touch makes the unclean holy, whose strickenness draws abundance, and who from nothing bears eternal fruit. His body is our temple, and we, being built up into it, are blessed.