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The Message of Ezra and Haggai: Building for God is unavailable, but you can change that!

With its emphasis on the Torah, the story of Ezra is linked with the story of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and their identity as the people of God. While Ezra prays for changed hearts and the forgiveness of sin, he looks forward to the Messiah and the fulfillment of all God’s promises. Haggai is pressed into service to offer a prophetic voice to the crisis detailed in Ezra. To those...

in the Bible than 1 Kings 11 where the springtime freshness of Solomon’s early reign and the ‘high Midsummer pomps’6 of his middle years become the blasted winter of his old age, and the historian notes ‘As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God’ (1 Kgs 11:4). Ezra realizes that this is no little local difficulty but something which strikes at the heart of the returned community. Israel is again lapsing into the very
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