Ezra

We are almost done with the narrative books of the Old Testament. Once we finish Nehemiah this Sunday we will be done with the history of the Israelite people. We will then move on to their poetry as well as the prophets of the time. Its cool seeing where each of the prophets fall into the course of the Israelite history. While reading Ezra we saw God's people return to a land that decades before they were taken away from, we got to see them return home. It was a happy homecoming for most, but Ezra took it pretty hard. He came home to see people had started to marry people outside the faith. They had married people who didnt love God and people who didnt even believe in God. We saw how important it is to hang out and only date people who sahre the same beliefs in God we do. It is easier for them to pull us down that it is for us to pull them up.