Ezra ⁽⁹⁾

Passage Read: Ezra 2-5 Meditation Verses: 4:1-4 It is great that these Samaritans wanted to help rebuild the temple, because they had been worshiping what they understood to be God from early on after their deportation to Israel. However, they also worshiped all their original…

Passage Read: Ezra 10 - Nehemiah 3 Meditation Verses: Ezra 10:10-12 Those commands to not intermarry with foreigners actually reveals a couple things about life long ago: It shows that many father's didn't actually oversee their own homes and exercise real dominion there. They left…

Passage Read: Ezra 6-9 Meditation Verses: 9:13-14 There is such a danger to misunderstand the grace and kindness of God. When He punishes His people, He holds back part of His wrath so as not to completely destroy us. But we can misunderstand that and…

Passage Read: Ezra 2-5 Meditation Verses: 4:1-3 Ezra calls these people enemies of Israel, but is that because of their reaction to the Jews' refusal to let them help or because they actually did come deceptively? Did they just want to seek the Lord or…