Did You Just Go Hungry or Were You Actually Fasting to Me?

He's saying, are you doing these fasts to be seen of men? Could be one way to look at this. Were you going without that food and that water for that day as a sign that you wanted more revelation, more strength from heaven? You'll notice verse 11, how he describes the people of the past, but they refused to hearken  and stopped their ears that they should not hear. With us today as prophets, Zechariah and Hagai, they're pleading with them to put their shoulder to the will, unstop their ears,. listen to the words of the Lord and do those things that they're being told.