Message Take Aways:

1. God’s people dedicated themselves to restoring the altar recognizing the need to sacrifice for their sins and renew proper worship in their homeland—“For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Hebrews 9:13-14

2. The people likewise committed themselves to rebuilding the temple with a desire to glorify the Lord and to maintain intimate fellowship with Him—“One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4