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Rebuilding the Community of God

Rebuilding the Community of God. God is Stirring - Ezra Chapter 1. Who constitutes the true remnant of the people of God and thus is in genuine continuity with the past? (therefore…concerns over intermarriage etc raise their head…)

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Rebuilding the Community of God

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  1. Rebuilding the Community of God God is Stirring - Ezra Chapter 1

  2. Who constitutes the true remnant of the people of God and thus is in genuine continuity with the past? (therefore…concerns over intermarriage etc raise their head…) The suggestion that Ezra-Nehemiah is mostly about community building is not far off the mark; it is indeed about rebuilding the community of God, based on the religious realities of the past…

  3. In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing: “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.

  4. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in

  5. marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” (Jeremiah 29:4-7)

  6. …in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah…(Ezra 1:1)

  7. God is Stirring!

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