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Nov 2, 2026
Brad LovellGUEST
The book of Ezra, chapter 3, verse 1 through 3 says, When the seventh month came and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
Brad LovellGUEST
Then arose Yeshua, the son of Josedach, with his fellow priests in Zerubbabel, the son of Shiltil, And they built the altar of God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
Brad LovellGUEST
Verse 3, they set the altar in its place for fear was on them because of the people of the lands and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord.
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Brad LovellGUEST
It's time that we raise up a generation to know and to follow Christ.
Brad LovellGUEST
Romans 12.1 says, Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Brad LovellGUEST
As we get back to Ezra 3, the Jewish, they returned after the exile back to Jerusalem and the temple was in ruins.
Brad LovellGUEST
It had been destroyed completely.
Brad LovellGUEST
This was the same Jerusalem that Solomon had built that was that magnificent temple.
Brannon HowseHOST
Remember, Daniel is now around the age of 85 years old.
Brannon HowseHOST
when he receives this vision my friend the late dr john whitcomb in his commentary on daniel writes quote the third year of cyrus began in the spring of 536 bc two years had now passed since gabriel revealed to daniel the prophecy of the 70 weeks The remnant of Jews under Zerubbabel and Joshua had now returned to Judah and were laying the foundations of the second temple that's described in Ezra 3.
Brannon HowseHOST
Daniel still carrying his name, Belshazzar, given to him 70 years earlier, now in his 80s.
Brannon HowseHOST
having lived throughout the entire Neo-Babylonian Empire, was too old to return with the remnant and had important ministries to perform on behalf of that remnant in the Medo-Persian government center in Babylon." And that brings us to Daniel chapter 10, verse 2, where we read, In those days, I, Daniel, so now Daniel is writing in the first person.
Scott HahnHOST
This is no ordinary house nor even a royal palace.
Scott HahnHOST
In Ezra 3, verses 10 and 11, we see the similar language described for the temple in Jerusalem.
Scott HahnHOST
Why? Because creation is a cosmic temple.
Scott HahnHOST
It's not just God's house.
Scott HahnHOST
This is no ordinary house nor even a royal palace.
Scott HahnHOST
In Ezra 3, verses 10 and 11, we see the similar language described for the temple in Jerusalem.
Scott HahnHOST
Why? Because creation is a cosmic temple.
Scott HahnHOST
It's not just God's house.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
In 538 BC, God's people began returning from exile and rebuilt the temple.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
Those are events recorded in the book of Ezra.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
And now, 90 years later, as we saw two sermons ago, Nehemiah, a Jewish official in the Persian court, has come to Jerusalem and found it still in ruins.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
In chapters two to six, he rallies the people to rebuild the wall amid great opposition.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
And now in verse 5 here, God puts a second thing into his heart to build the people of God and how he begins that work.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
is chapter seven which requires some explanation.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
Nearly the whole chapter from verse six to the first half of verse 73 repeats almost word for word the list in Ezra two of the first exiles to return which is 90 years before the events recorded in Nehemiah.
Jamie DunlopGUEST
It's a flashback.
Christine DargHOST
First, they built an altar.
Christine DargHOST
Ezra 3.6 records the sequence.
Christine DargHOST
From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt sacrifices unto the Lord.
Christine DargHOST
But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
Nehemiah 8, 13.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
On the second day, the heads of fathers' houses of all the people with the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the law.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
And they found it written in the law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month, and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths as it is written.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
This is an incredibly encouraging passage.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
Again, after hearing from the law of Moses read for hours, uninterruptedly, the previous day, we now come to the second day of this month and what do we discover? The people of God still hungry for the scriptures.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
And they come to Ezra and they long to learn more from the oracles of the Lord.
Daniel BatarsehHOST
And what makes that special is that this second day is not necessarily tied to the feasts.
Aaron PageSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The priestly garments are ready, the silver trumpets have been made, and according to the rabbi, they don't even need to build the third temple before they begin sacrifices.
Aaron PageSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we see the same thing in Ezra chapter three.
Aaron PageSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So the Jewish people were coming out of Babylonian exile and they went to the altar before it was even built, the temple, and they were beginning to make sacrifices.
Aaron PageSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The temple wasn't even built.
Nissim BlackHOST
That is in the Bible.
Nissim BlackHOST
We do understand that when the Jewish people return from the Babylonian exile, They rebuilt the altar before the second temple itself was completed.
Nissim BlackHOST
As it says in the book of Ezra, Ezra 3.6, you can follow along with me, it says, from the first day of the seventh month, which happened to be, by the way, on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Teruah, they begin to burn offerings to the Lord, although the foundations of the temple of the Lord had not been laid.
Nissim BlackHOST
So there it is, right? The altar, the offerings, you know, no completed temple.
Kevin McGillHOST
The Word of God.
Kevin McGillHOST
In the book of Ezra, temple worship and Torah instruction are restored in Jerusalem, Ezra 3, 8-13, 7-10.
Kevin McGillHOST
The walls complete the restoration of Jerusalem as a protected covenant community.
Kevin McGillHOST
Now that Jerusalem is a safe city, the people can gather to hear God's word again.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
And I want to read it to you, this decree, because this feeds into what we're going to be looking at in these 11 verses.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
In Ezra chapter 1, we read, Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, the word of the Lord came by the mouth of Jeremiah that it might be fulfilled.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, the king of Persia.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
So he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
In fact, if you look at the bottom of that sheet there, it gives the different time frames.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
Zerubbabel led a group in 538 BC by a proclamation of Cyrus.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
Later, Ezra, 458, Ezra led a group.
Jeff CavanaughGUEST
In fact, I think the first half of Ezra should be Zerubbabel, the second half Ezra, And then Nehemiah led a group.
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