We continued with our reading of Ezra, finishing the book and starting Nehemiah next. Ezra concludes with a public confession of sin and moving to a list of all the people found in sin. This was actually a good portion in understanding a little about what happened to the Israelites when they were in exile. [...]
We had a quick reading in Ezra 8. It continues with Ezra recruiting a group of people to return with him to Jerusalem. Ezra 7:28 Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me. It was repeated throughout chapter [...]
We had an hour and a half online session yesterday listening to and discussing chapter 1 of Sonship by Jack Miller. Just read a review of it by Van Dixhoorn concerning it from WTJ vol.61-2. I’m a little biased since Van Dixhoorn was my professor last semester. Anyways, we looked at sin, grace, Christ, adoption, [...]
We continued reading through Ezra today. Chapters 4-6 With all building projects, there is opposition. After Cyrus came Xerxes and Artaxerxes. The enemies of the Jews brought reasons to stop the building of the temple. It is a reminder that even though you are doing God’s work, there will always be people opposed to it. [...]
After our monday episode of House and 24, we went upstairs and got ready for bed. While in bed we read the first three chapters of Ezra. Ezra details the building project of the temple of the LORD as ordered by Cyrus King of Persia. The Jewish community was in exile but this decree to [...]