by Shelley | Jun 8, 2023 | Bible Fiber, Ezra
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts In the last chapter of Ezra, his emotional reaction to the community’s guilt continued until they could finally resolve the remnant’s intermarriage crisis. In the words of the...
by Shelley | Jun 1, 2023 | Bible Fiber, Ezra
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts Only four months after Ezra’s arrival (458 BCE), Judean officials reported to him that the returnees had violated God’s marriage laws by intermarrying with their pagan neighbors....
by Shelley | May 11, 2023 | Bible Fiber, Ezra
By Shelley Neese Follow Bible Fiber on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts! God called Ezra to institute the worship of Yahweh through their sacred texts and obedience to God’s laws. The covenant provided their code of living, the mysterious means by which...
by Shelley | May 4, 2023 | Bible Fiber, Ezra
By Shelley Neese Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or Follow it wherever you listen to your podcasts Ezra is divided into two parts: Chapters 1-6 and Chapters 7-10. The first half recaps the initial return of the exiles to their national homeland under the...
by Shelley | Apr 27, 2023 | Bible Fiber, Ezra
By Shelley Neese Bible Fiber is available on Youtube or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Suscribe to the channel! The Persian officials diligently sought documentation to validate the Israelites’ assertion that they possessed authorization from the late King...
by Shelley | Apr 20, 2023 | Bible Fiber, Ezra
By Shelley Neese Subscribe to Bible Fiber on Youtube or follow it wherever you listen to podcasts! When the returnees laid the temple foundations in 535 BCE, during the reign of Cyrus, they attracted negative attention from their oppositional neighbors. All the...