The people have returned to the land of Judah and Jerusalem. After getting settled in their homes their attention turns to the altar of their God. Without even a building to house the ‘church’ the people gathered to worship the Lord. When Cyrus sent the people back to their homes in Israel, the one specific […]
Cyrus has let the people of Judah go. He didn’t need the convincing Pharaoh of Egypt did. We see the number of returnees given today. I’m curious about a few of things in our reading. The first is how they maintained the genealogies while in captivity and why. The second is why some groups were […]
God is bringing His people home and he does so through the hand of Cyrus, king of Persia. His proclamation sends them home well equipped too. We have come to the book of Ezra which tells the story of the Jews coming home. While I was reading the introduction to this book in my Bible […]
Judah’s sins and unrepentant heart forced God to use sterner measures. They were taken captive. But God also returned them to their homeland after a time. To an unfaithful people, God is still faithful. Israel and Judah broke His covenant six ways from Sunday but God never abandoned them. He called out to them. He […]
It’s time. God has had enough. Judah is on a path of destruction and will not listen, even to Jeremiah, one of God’s greatest prophets. Wrath time. This reminds me of something I used to do with my children. We called it ‘crack down time’. When they would go through seasons of continuous misbehavior I […]
