Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:07:45 — 115.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 01/04/23 Series: Thru the Bible Message: Mordecai’s faith & Esther’s faithfulness ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Mordecai’s faith & Esther’s faithfulness Tonight we are going to begin the book of Esther, but before we do I want to help clarify the timeline here. I have done a lot of mentioning of Ezra and Nehemiah in both their separate and cooperative work in rebuilding both the temple AND Jerusalem. Yet, if you remember, I told you a few weeks ago that the story of Esther occurs in a 60 year […]
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Ezra leads in sending away Israel’s pagan wives
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:31:41 — 160.6MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 12/28/22 Series: Thru the Bible Message: Ezra leads in sending away Israel’s pagan wives ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Ezra leads in sending away Israel’s pagan wives Ezra 9:1-15, “(1) Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. (2) Indeed, they have […]
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Return to rebuild – the Historical account of Ezra Pt. 2
Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:30 — 68.4MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 12/14/22 Series: Thru the Bible Message: Return to rebuild – the Historical account of Ezra Pt. 2 ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Return to rebuild – the Historical account of Ezra Pt. 2 We began last week in our walk through Ezra with the initial decree from Cyrus to rebuild and restore Temple in Jerusalem. Now in chapters 5 and 6 we revisit this old decree as it is looked up in the archives by the current king Darius due to some busybodies who were hoping to stop the […]
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Return to rebuild – the Historical account of Ezra
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01:26 — 105.6MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 12/07/22 Series: Thru the Bible Message: Return to rebuild – the Historical account of Ezra ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Return to rebuild – the Historical account of Ezra The time period of Ezra directly follows the events in Daniel’s life. They are largely congruent with Nehemiah and include the events in the amazing and heroic life story of Esther. Nehemiah served under Artaxerxes I whose administration lasted from 465-424 BC. It was this Artaxerxes who issued the command to rebuild Jerusalem in 445 B.C.. Ezra, on the other […]
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The Laments of Jeremiah in five inspired poems
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:20 — 107.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 11/30/22 Series: Thru the Bible Message: The Laments of Jeremiah in five inspired poems ***Video is HERE*** Share this: The Laments of Jeremiah in five inspired poems The book of Lamentations historically comes after the ministry of Jeremiah outlined in the prophetic book of Jeremiah but it was also an inspired poem composed by him. Like the book of Psalms, this book is in the plural because it is technically a fluid collection of 5 Spiritual and Patriotic Dirges. Each one is A Lamentation, even as each chapter in […]
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