Calvary Church is dedicated to doctrine, and we want you to experience the life change that comes from knowing God's word and applying it to your life.

So we explain the Bible first by verse, every chapter, every book, this is expound.

We have the privilege of being in the book of Esther in our through the Bible study.

We go through every book of the Bible.

And did I say Esther?

Well, I did turn 70, you know.

These things happen. The book of Ezra before Nehemiah,

and it's good that we have Nehemiah on the weekends and Ezra on Wednesday nights because they

are complementary of one another.

They both came back to Jerusalem.

They both knew each other.

And so we finished chapter two of the book of Ezra last week, and we will begin in Chapter 3.

But let me begin with where the book of Ezra began in Chapter 1,

and in verse 1, he mentions the prophet Jeremiah.

And Jeremiah was the prophet who walked through Jerusalem, and he told the Jews that they would be in captivity for 70 years.

He made that announcement when Nebuchadnezzar had already assaulted the city and taken

some captive, and there would be a total of three attacks by the Babylonians. But one had taken

place, and there were still people, including Jeremiah, the city had not

fallen yet.

That was 586 BC.

Jeremiah would watch that event, but when he was predicting that, the city was still intact.

But God told Jeremiah to do something, well, let me put it this way. I'm glad I wasn't Jeremiah.

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