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A Time of Rebuilding
by Ronald Boelte

[Ed note: The Lone Wolf Adult Bible Class is studying the book of Ezra. We thought it timely to bring back this Daily Prayer on Ezra from the 1999 archives.]

The people of Israel are being held in captivity in Babylon. Then the Persians take over most of the known world. Cyrus the king of Persia decides to allow the Israelites that want to return to Jerusalem to do so. Ezra shows us God’s grace in allowing all this to happen just as it had been predicted many years earlier by Jeremiah.

Ezra gives us the account of this return starting with Zerubbabel who is the leader of the first return. Zerubbabel was to go back and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Sixty years later Ezra leads the second return and is going to rebuild the spiritual conditions of the people. Nehemiah is to follow about 13 years after Ezra to help in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem.

Ezra is the leader of the Levites, and he leads the Levites to "read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being read." Nehemiah 8:8

It is a great blessing to have those that can take the Word of God and reveal what is being said so that you can apply it in your life. If you are one that can do this, remain faithful for there is no higher task than bringing understanding of God’s Word to the people. If you know someone like that, be grateful for there is no greater friend and teacher you could have.

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