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Book messages «Life-Study of Ezra»

1 2 3 4 5

Life-Study of Ezra

Message: 1 2 3 4 5

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The Need of a Return from Captivity _{Message 1}

A brief survey of the history of Israel
God giving up the people of Israel to captivity and promising to bring them back from captivity
The return from captivity through the secret preserving care of the hiding God
The history of the people of Israel being a type of the New Testament believers as God’s elect
Our need to be clear concerning three situations

An Introductory Word _{Message 2}

I. Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther being the last three books of the history of God’s chosen people in the Old Testament
II. The writer
III. The time
IV. The contents
V. The crucial points
A. The return of the children of Israel from their captivity recovering the purpose of God’s calling of them
B. Their return from their captivity to the unique ground of Jerusalem recovering their oneness
C. Their return from their captivity recovering their enjoyment of the portion of the good land promised by God
D. God’s intention to have His house built and His kingdom established on the earth
VI. The sections

The Return of the Captivity Under the Kingly Leadership of Zerubbabel _{Message 3}

I. The decree of Cyrus king of Persia
A. In his first year
B. By God’s stirring up of his spirit
C. In fulfillment of the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah
D. Ordering the captivity of Israel to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the house of God
II. The response of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites
A. By God’s stirring up of their spirit
B. All the Israelites around them strengthening their hands
III. The cooperation of King Cyrus
IV. The number of the returned captives
V. The willing offering of some of the heads of the fathers’ houses
VI. The rebuilding of the altar of God
A. In the seventh month
B. The children of Israel gathering to Jerusalem as one man
C. The altar being built upon its bases
D. Keeping the Feast of Tabernacles
VII. The rebuilding of the house of God
A. Hiring stone hewers and carpenters
B. In the second month of the second year after their return
VIII. The frustration
A. The adversaries of Judah and Benjamin pretending to help the rebuilding of the house of Jehovah
B. Artaxerxes decreeing to stop the building of the house of God by force and power
IX. The continual rebuilding work
X. The confirmation of the decree of Darius king of Persia
A. The rebuilding questioned and referred to Darius
B. Darius’s checking of the decree of Cyrus
XI. The completion of the rebuilding of the house of God
A. In prosperity
B. On the third day of the month Adar
XII. The dedication of the rebuilt house of God
A. With joy
B. With the offerings for the dedication and a sin offering
C. With the setting up of the services of the priests and of the Levites
XIII. The keeping of the Passover by the children of the captivity
A. Having their priests and Levites purified
B. Continuing with the feast of unleavened bread

The Return of the Captivity Under the Priestly Leadership of Ezra _{Message 4}

I. The return of the captivity under Ezra
A. The beginning of the return through the request of Ezra to the king
1. Ezra’s genealogy
2. The king’s granting of the request of Ezra
3. Coming safely to Jerusalem
4. Ezra having set his heart to seek and do the law of Jehovah
B. The decree of Artaxerxes king of Persia
1. Permitting the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites to go to Jerusalem
2. Permitting the provision for the needs of the house of God
3. Ordering all the treasurers to provide whatever Ezra required for the house of God
4. Ordering the treasurers not to impose tribute, taxes, or tolls
5. Authorizing Ezra to appoint magistrates and judges
6. Ezra’s blessing to God
C. The genealogical enrollment
D. Ezra’s proclamation of a fast
E. Ezra setting apart twelve of the leading men of the priests
F. The journey and arrival of the returned captivity
1. Setting out from the river Ahava
2. Arriving at Jerusalem and delivering all the silver, gold, and vessels
G. The offerings to God by the returned captivity
H. The returned captivity’s delivering the king’s decrees
II. The purification of the returned captives from the defilement of the foreign wives
A. Initiated by the officials of the returned captives
B. Ezra’s reaction
1. Tearing his garment
2. Making a thorough confession of the iniquities of the children of Israel
3. Thanking God for leaving them a remnant to escape
4. Confessing their being defiled
C. The congregation’s reaction
1. Weeping very bitterly for their unfaithfulness against their God
2. Making a covenant with their God
3. Encouraging Ezra to be strong and bear his responsibility
D. The final decision

The Need for Ezras — Those Skilled in the Word of God _{Message 5}

God’s intention that Israel would be His testimony
The nation of Israel being God-men in typology but eventually becoming degraded
The return of God’s people under Zerubbabel
The need for an Ezra
The responsibility of the elders to teach the saints with the truths
A great famine throughout the earth
The need for Ezras to constitute the people with the heavenly truths
Types of the riches of Christ
The Lord moving in His recovery by His word

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