Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth.

He'll listeners, so today we're starting a new book. We're starting the Book of Ezra, which is going to go right into Nehemiah,

and if you don't know where that is, don't worry you're not alone.

It's tucked into your Bibles.

It's between the larger books of First and Second Chronicles

and then Psalms and Proverbs, which comes a little bit later.

So what happens is if you're reading your physical Bible it flops open to some of these

larger books and you just kind of have to dig or use your table of contents to find Ezra. Now if you read your Bible on your phone,

like a lot of us do these days, too,

that's also confusing because Ezra in the table of contents

is listed earlier in the Old Testament.

While historically or chronologically speaking,

it actually covers the events at the end of the Old Testament

leading right up until the 400 years of darkness before the Masionic King. So just a little

tidbit about Ezra as we get into it, but I think you're really going to enjoy it.

So I'm glad that you're going to be with us for hopefully the next few days as we go through this book.

Now if the event chronicled in the Book of Ezra were to happen to us today I think we would be

just as shocked or it would be just as shocking as it was in 539 BC. You see if today

the world's most powerful political leader just suddenly changed his or her mind

whatever their policy, whatever their view,

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