Category: Ezra

Things had gone terribly wrong for God’s People in the Old Testament. They had lost their independence, been taken into exile, the temple destroyed.…

Ezra 2 is all about God keeping his promises. Yes, it is a long list of names. But they were the faces that went…

For the Israelites who returned to the ruins of the Promised Land, you might think that rebuilding homes, building businesses, planting crops, and repairing…

The returnees from exile were also starting something new, rebuilding what had been destroyed and ruined. For them, it was a time of excitement…

We see Satan’s opposition and discouragement agenda play out with the returnees from exile to Judah. While things had started mostly well, with the…

The point of this passage is that the devil is always opposing God’s work. Whether it was in the days of Cain and Abel,…

Opposition is an ongoing reality. We have been warned. But Jesus is with us. We have been encouraged. The eyes of God watch over…

Just the same today, God can move the hearts of bureaucrats and leaders to complete his will. While that may mean opposition decreed for…

Today we do not have a physical temple at a central location, but God’s temple is his church. Wherever his church meets to worship…

The returned exiles had finally restored and rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem, and in March 516 BC celebrated its completion. In April, they celebrated…

Nearly sixty years pass between the end of chapter 6 and the beginning of chapter 7. At the end of chapter 6, a group…

Ezra was a man who was placed in the blessed position. Ezra wanted to return to Jerusalem to reform worship and life there. Thankfully,…

This list also gives us a cultural check. In our culture, youth is idolised. Everyone wants to look young. Sometimes it feels like everything…

Ezra was returning to Jerusalem to bring about further reform of the worship and rule of God's People there. He went as a man…

Ezra’s example is one we can follow as well as we walk through our own seasons of change. As believers, we know that for…

We need to understand the point of the laws, and what they meant for the Jewish people and for us today in the light…

That repentance brought the same from many of God’s People who observed him, and were convicted by the Holy Spirit to do the same.…

Read Ezra 10:18-44 Any parent or adult who has supervised children knows that the time that is most fearful is when they go suddenly,…