As Ezra opens, there is both excitement as God stirs up the heart of a pagan king to send God’s people home, and there is mundane with a long list of names and numbers. Even so, there is a common thread: God’s temple is meant to be in Jerusalem, and God sent His people back to build it. If God didn’t send them and empower them, it wouldn’t get done. It had to be the work of God.

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