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Coming Out of Exile:

Coming Out of Exile:. Returning to the Promised Land. Coming Out of Exile: Returning to the Promised Land. Part 1: Have We Learned Our Lessons? November 13—Going Into Exile November 20—Surviving the Exile November 27—Break: Thanksgiving Eve Eucharist.

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  1. Coming Out of Exile: Returning to the Promised Land

  2. Coming Out of Exile:Returning to the Promised Land Part 1: Have We Learned Our Lessons? • November 13—Going Into Exile • November 20—Surviving the Exile • November 27—Break: Thanksgiving Eve Eucharist

  3. Coming Out of Exile:Returning to the Promised Land Part 2: The Prophets of the Return • December 4—Zechariah • December 11—Haggai • December 18—Malachi

  4. Coming Out of Exile:Returning to the Promised Land Session 2—Surviving the Exile or What Do We Do While We’re Stuck Here?

  5. Coming Out of Exile:Returning to the Promised Land There are three prophets who prophesied during the Exile: • Ezekiel • Jeremiah • Daniel

  6. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel Ezekiel was a priest who had been taken into exile in 597 along with King Jehoiachin, 11 years before the destruction of Jerusalem.

  7. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel Ezekiel was a priest who had been taken into exile in 597 along with King Jehoiachin, 11 years before the destruction of Jerusalem. He had more than a full decade to continue prophesying about the coming destruction of Jerusalem.

  8. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel Immediately after the Fall of Jerusalem, Ezekiel starts preaching comfort to his fellow exiles.

  9. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel Immediately after the Fall of Jerusalem, Ezekiel starts preaching comfort to his fellow exiles. Ezekiel’s prophesies culminate in a promise from God to “vindicate” His holy name among the nations.

  10. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel “Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.

  11. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. …It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD; let that be known to you.

  12. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.

  13. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel “Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock. Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” Ezekiel 36:22-38

  14. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel What are our lessons here?

  15. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel What are our lessons here? • God is going to vindicate His holy name!

  16. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel What are our lessons here? • God is going to vindicate His holy name! • There will be a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit!

  17. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel What are our lessons here? • God is going to vindicate His holy name! • There will be a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit! • He is going to do it for His sake!

  18. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel What are our lessons here? • God is going to vindicate His holy name! • There will be a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit! • He is going to do it for His sake! • We will increase our people like flocks for sacrifice!

  19. Coming Out of Exile:The Promise of Ezekiel What are our lessons here? • God is going to vindicate His holy name! • There will be a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit! • He is going to do it for His sake! • We will increase our people like flocks for sacrifice! • Everyone will know God has done this work!

  20. The prophet Jeremiah first began prophesying during the reign of King Josiah and continued prophesying “in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.” Jeremiah 1:3 Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah

  21. Because Jeremiah knew the sins Judah had committed and God’s judgment upon them, he prophesied about the doom coming from Babylon and encouraged the people to surrender to the Babylonians. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah

  22. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah Because Jeremiah knew the sins Judah had committed and God’s judgment upon them, he prophesied about the doom coming from Babylon and encouraged the people to surrender to the Babylonians. This made him wildly unpopular!

  23. “Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive—to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon… “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: Jeremiah 29:1,4 Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah

  24. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah “Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.” Jeremiah 29:5-7

  25. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah “For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah 29:10-11

  26. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah “Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.”  Jeremiah 29:12-14

  27. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah What are our lessons here?

  28. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah What are our lessons here? • Everything that has happened to us has been part of God’s plan!

  29. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah What are our lessons here? • Everything that has happened to us has been part of God’s plan! • God’s will is being done!

  30. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah What are our lessons here? • Everything that has happened to us has been part of God’s plan! • God’s will is being done! • God’s plan is to bless us and prosper us!

  31. Coming Out of Exile:The Comfort of Jeremiah What are our lessons here? • Everything that has happened to us has been part of God’s plan! • God’s will is being done! • God’s plan is to bless us and prosper us! • We will have a renewed, revitalized relationship!

  32. The Book of Daniel is divided into two parts: Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel

  33. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel The Book of Daniel is divided into two parts: • Chapters 1-6 are the stories of Daniel and his friends thriving in Babylon and enduring the hardships of exile by living a faith-filled life.

  34. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel The Book of Daniel is divided into two parts: • Chapters 1-6 are the stories of Daniel and his friends thriving in Babylon and enduring the hardships of exile by living a faith-filled life. • Chapters 7-10 are Daniel’s visions and prophecies.

  35. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel The Book of Daniel is divided into two parts: • Chapters 1-6 are the stories of Daniel and his friends thriving in Babylon and enduring the hardships of exile by living a faith-filled life. • Chapters 7-10 are Daniel’s visions and prophecies. We will be focusing only on the first part tonight

  36. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel Daniel 1 tells us that around 606, in the third year of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar took Daniel and his three friends (among many others) and entrusted them to Ashpenaz, the master of the eunuchs. There they were trained to be servants in the king’s court and palace and regally appointed and provided for with rich food, drink and clothing. They were also given Babylonian names.

  37. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; “And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king’s delicacies.  “As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.” Daniel 1:8, 15, 17

  38. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel Now at the end of the days, when the king had said that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. Then the king interviewed them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore they served before the king.  Daniel 1:18,19

  39. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm. Thus Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus. Daniel 1:20-21

  40. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel Most of us have heard of Meshach, Shadrach, and Abed-Nego and the fiery furnace. Daniel’s three young friends, refusing to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s idol are thrown into a massive incinerator where God miraculously preserves them.

  41. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel In Bibles used by Roman-Catholics and Greek- and Russian-Orthodox Christians, the Book of Daniel contains three additional chapters. One of these chapters has been dubbed “The Prayer of Azariah.”

  42. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel In Bibles used by Roman-Catholics and Greek- and Russian-Orthodox Christians, the Book of Daniel contains three additional chapters. One of these chapters has been dubbed “The Prayer of Azariah.” Verse 28 begins, “Then the three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified and blessed God in the furnace, saying:”

  43. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers; * praised and exalted above all for ever. Blessed art thou for the Name of thy Majesty; * praised and exalted above all for ever. Blessed art thou in the temple of thy holiness; * praised and exalted above all for ever.

  44. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and dwellest between the Cherubim; * praised and exalted above all for ever. Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom; * praised and exalted above all for ever. Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven; * praised and exalted above all for ever.

  45. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel After Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, four others reign before Belshazzar becomes king of Babylon. Belshazzar has a feast where a supernatural hand mystically writes on the wall.

  46. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel After Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, four others reign before Belshazzar becomes king of Babylon. Belshazzar has a feast where a supernatural hand mystically writes on the wall. After interpreting the writing on the wall, “That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom…” Daniel 5:30,31

  47. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel “It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss. Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm.” Daniel 6:1-3

  48. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel “Then King Darius wrote: To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel.

  49. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel “For He is the living God,And steadfast forever;His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed,And His dominion shall endure to the end. He delivers and rescues,And He works signs and wondersIn heaven and on earth,Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”

  50. Coming Out of Exile:The Lessons of Daniel “So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.” Daniel 6:25-28

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