August 23, 2014

Ezra 1:1 – 2:70

November 26, 2010

"You are free to go." The Israelites have been held captive for 70 years. But now God has directed Cyrus, the king of Persia to set them free. "You are free to go." And "everyone God had caused to want to go made the preparations to go back and rebuild the temple. When the LORD calls He provides the way and the desire. God used King Cyrus, a king of Persia, to restore His people and fulfill the promises spoken by Jeremiah years earlier.

Nothing can thwart God's plan. Nothing. Not Satan—God provided the Cross. Not man—God's will WILL prevail. Nothing is too complex for God to solve.

Genesis 18:14 - "Is anything too hard for the LORD?"
Genesis 20:6 - "I did not allow you to sin against me."
Genesis 50:20 - "You meant to hurt me, but God turned your evil into good to save the lives of many."
Exodus 3:12 - "God said, I will be with you."
Esther 4:13-14 - "You may have been chosen for such a time as this."

Addendum:  8/28/2014 ~ The beginning of Ezra (where I began to journal again after my journals were unexpectedly caught up in "the storm"), begins the exact same way as II Chronicles ends which is where my journey of reading and keeping a journal of the things God taught me while reading through the entire Bible also ended. "You are free to go." A pagan king fulfilled God's promise to Jeremiah which was also Jane's (Her Name Was Jane) last God-given promise to us. One year (to the day) from when Jane told us to read Jeremiah 33, God incredibly freed us from a large financial obligation created by "the storm."

There will come a day when the LORD delivers us from the lawsuit and we hear, "You are free to go." I will admit, it will be nice to hear those words.


Next Entry: Ezra 3:1 – 4:24

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