Oh, how shrewd the Devil is! How "wily," meaning "skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully." A word that reached its peak use about a hundred years ago, and now must be defined. And today's Text, Ezra 4:1-3, illustrates what I … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, “OPPOSITION!”
Nearly anytime God's people inch forward, make progress ... there will be opposition! And the Book of Ezra has carefully recorded for us how a handful of Jews, returning from Babylon, built an altar to Almighty God. And how they immediately … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, ONE’S “POINT OF VIEW”
The Jews' Temple (the one history now calls "Zerubbabel's Temple") is not yet complete. Not by a long shot, as we will see in a few lessons. BUT ... the foundation has been laid! At least it had by the time Ezra 3:11-13 pronounces this new … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, “WORKING TOGETHER”
A phrase in Ezra 3:8 has caught my attention ... "ALL they that were come out of the captivity." Here are those words again, in their context, in their proper verse setting. "Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at … [Continue reading]
THE BOOK OF EZRA, MAKING A “BEGINNING”
Forty-two thousand Jews, nearly forty-three thousand have returned home from Babylon, a land by then ruled by Persia. (Others will follow, this is the first returning "wave" of Israelites under the leadership of Sheshbazzar, a little known … [Continue reading]
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