Bible Fiber: Ezra 6
By Shelley Neese Bible Fiber is available on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Suscribe to the channel! This week we are studying Ezra 6. The Persian officials diligently sought documentation to validate the Israelites’ assertion that they possessed...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 5
By Shelley Neese Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or follow it wherever you listen to podcasts! This week we are studying Ezra 5. When the returnees laid the temple foundations in 535 BCE, during the reign of Cyrus, they attracted negative attention from their...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 4
By Shelley Neese--- Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! The first three chapters of Ezra cover the two-year honeymoon period for the returning Judeans. King Cyrus, captor turned liberator, permitted their return to Jerusalem to...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 3
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! After enduring the long roll-call, the narrator skipped the journey from Babylon to Judah and omitted details about the process of resettlement where the Israelites had to reclaim...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 2
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! The first six chapters of Ezra revolve around two missions: rebuilding the Jerusalem sanctuary and rebuilding the community. Admittedly, the first read of Ezra 2 is about as...
Bible Fiber: Ezra 1
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to podcasts Ezra 1 begins, “In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he...
Bible Fiber: Malachi 4:4-6
Bible Fiber is available on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts!! This week we are studying Malachi 4:4-6. Both Jewish and Christian traditions refer to Malachi as the “seal of the prophets.” His epilogue deserves special attention because it is not only...
Bible Fiber: Malachi 3:13-4:3
Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! This week we are studying Malachi 3:13-4:3. In Malachi’s sixth and final disputation, God consistently speaks in first person to the community, a fact made more significant in light of the...
Bible Fiber: Malachi 3:6-12
Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! This week we are studying Malachi 3:6-12. Malachi’s fifth disputation begins with a theological lesson: “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished”...
Bible Fiber: Malachi 2:17-3:5
Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to podcasts! This week we are studyig Malachi 2:17-3:5. Previous disputations had charged the priesthood with negligent worship and condemned Israelite men for their pagan marriages. Those prophetic messages were...