Mark Twain once declared that "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." As we look at the plaintive cries of Haggai to Zerubbabel for the people to pull back from their own self-centered focus and concentrating on building God's house, we see many parallels experienced by people in the Israel of God, currently scattered into multiple splinters because of the idolatry of exalting an organization or corporation over the spiritual organism, focusing on physical resources and human leadership rather than Almighty God. Such idolatry caused God to scatter our previous fellowship, creating a severe labor shortage in all the splinter groups, causing concerns about the future or spiritual state of the church because of the steady advance of the world's influence, especially when the Old Guard are obviously gone. Jeremiah 18:15-17 gives a basic cause for scattering, which is that God scatters when His people forget Him. He is a jealous God, and righteously so. When something else takes the central place in the lives of His people, He scatters to help His people to remember Him, focusing what is truly important by taking away what is less important. In the scattered splinters today, we cannot objectively say that God favors one group over the other. Each group has insights and blind spots, giving us the inescapable conclusion that God is not focused on one organization exclusively, but instead on the spiritual organisms, which individual members must take up the slack for the crumbling leadership, building a firm relationship with Almighty God in order to bolster and encourage bewildered and shaken spiritual siblings.