After showing the people in Haggai 2:10-19 that it is easier to get dirty than clean, God pointed the way forward to the only way to become clean before him.
There is only one true and living God who can rescue humans from serving our handmade gods.
Within the final greetings in his letter to the Romans, Paul included a declaration about the final victory of the church.
The same joy that the first disciples experienced upon seeing Jesus again is available to us.