Calvary Chapel Macomb
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Tuesday - 10:00 a.m.
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Wednesday - 6:30 p.m.
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First Saturday of the month - 9:00 a.m.
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Last Saturday of the month - 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
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the Book of Ezra
Ezra continues the Old
Testament narrative of Second Chronicles by showing how God
fulfills His promise to return His people to the Land of Promise
after seventy years of exile. Israel's "second exodus," this
one from Babylon is less impressive than the return from Egypt
because only a remnant chooses to leave Babylon.
Ezra relates the story of
two returns from Babylon - the first led by Zerubbabel to rebuild
the temple (1-6), and the second under the leadership of Ezra to
rebuild the spiritual condition of the people (7-10).
Sandwiched between these two accounts is a gap of nearly six
decades, during which Esther lives and rules as queen in Persia.
Ezra is the Aramaic form
of the Hebrew word ezer, "help," and perhaps means "Yahweh
helps." Ezra and Nehemiah were originally bound together as
one book because Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah were viewed as one
continuous history. The Septuagint, a Greek-language version
of the Old Testament translated in the third century B.C., calls
Ezra-Nehemiah, Esdras Deuteron, "Second Esdras."
First Esdras is the name of the apocryphal book of Esdras.
The Latin title is Liber Primus Esdraw, "First Book of
Ezra." In the Latin Bible, Ezra is called First Ezra and
Nehemiah is called Second Ezra.
