49 Ezra Flashcards
Author and Date
unknown / 430-400BC
Historical Context
Artaxerxes, King of Persia
What is the Redemptive Historical Narrative Connection?
reveals Christ in 5 ways:1. Jesus would descend from the line of Zerubbabel and complete his work2. Zerubbabel, Ezra and Neh devoted their lives to leading God’s people to His promises3. Temple is central to Christian faith4. Moral reforms call us to be a covenant people5. Renewal of the law divorced the Jews from a sole nationalistic identity - multinational ways of belonging to the faith
Key Themes
Ezra is scribe and priest who lives in Babylon
He has devoted himself to
study, do, teach God’s Word
what year does he return from exile
2nd return - 458
who goes then?
Ezra, priests, Levites, singers, gate keepers, and temple servants
what does Ezra discover upon return?
that God’s people have been marrying foreigners - he is greatly distressed
Ezra leads the way in ….
covenant renewal and prayer
God’s people agree to…
put aside their foreign wives
