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Daily Readings: Ezra 5 and Psalm 7 The Jewish exiles who had returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple had been forced to stop by political intervention from local opponents (See Ezra 4). For a few years the work was at a standstill and the people focussed on rebuilding their own homes instead. So, as
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Daily Readings: Ezra 4 and Psalm 6 The evil one is very uncreative in his approach to opposing true worship of the LORD. Always seeking to deflect worship from the LORD, this Satan (whose name means opponent and accuser) constantly employs the weapons of temptation, guilt, shame and fear to tempt people not to worship
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Daily Readings: Ezra 3 and Psalm 5 The worship of God is the fountain from which every other activity of our lives should be watered and fed. Worshiping God should be our top priority. For the returned exiles, rebuilding the altar so that they could start worshiping God as a community was their top priority.
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Daily Readings: Ezra 1-2 and Psalm 4 Daniel 6:29 tells us that “Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus of Persia.” One wonders whether, when Cyrus became king and called for his wise men to advise him, Daniel didn’t possibly call for the scroll of the prophet Jeremiah and read
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Daily readings: Daniel 12 and Psalm 3 The angel who spoke to Daniel in the vision warned us that “at the time of the end” (11:40) “there will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then” (12:1). Yet even in this great time of distress the
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Daily Readings: Daniel 11 and Psalm 2 The vision of Daniel 11 is another prophetic revelation to Daniel about the medium-term future of the Persian Empire, the Greek Empire that would replace it, the Seleucid Empire, the latter’s most significant and evil king, Antiochus Epiphanies and the havoc he would wreak on Jerusalem. It is
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Daily Readings: Daniel 10 and Psalm 1 In the very first year that Cyrus replaced Darius as the Emperor of Persia, the Lord moved his heart to release all the Jews who so wished, to return to Jerusalem. He proclaimed in a written statement sent throughout the Empire, “The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all
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Daily Readings: Daniel 9 and Psalm 150 Jeremiah had been the final prophet in Jerusalem before it fell to the Babylonians, and Daniel would personally have heard him prophesying before he was taken into exile. Now, years later, during the reign of Darius, while contemplating the Sciptures and remembering Jeremiah’s words, Daniel received revelation from
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Daily Readings: Daniel 8 and Psalm 149 Daniel received the vision recorded in chapter 8 while attending to some business of King Belshazzar in the citadel of Susa. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Susa is where the drama of the book of Esther plays out in a later generation. The vision he received
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Daily Readings: Daniel 7 and Psalm 148 Daniel chapters 1-6 record the key events of Daniel’s exile in Babylon. Daniel 7-12 record the various visions he received from the LORD during those years. The vision of Daniel 7 came to him during the reign of Belsahazzar, which means that it happened at some point during
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