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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...

the Babylonian Empire itself had gone and had been replaced in 539 BC by the Persian Empire under Cyrus. One of the first actions of Cyrus had been to send home the captive peoples who had been brought as exiles to Babylon. So we are now in 538 BC and a party of Judaean exiles have come back home to rebuild their temple. Though the whole book traditionally bears his name, Ezra himself does not appear until chapter 7. The first part of the book (chs. 1–6) is a historical survey telling us of the pioneers
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