5/30/2021 0 Comments Acts CommentaryLuke, a Gentile man of many hats (historian, physician, travelling missionary), write a second letter to a powerful political figure. It is dated AD 60-62, before the end of Paul's first Roman imprisonment.
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5/6/2021 0 Comments Nehemiah Commentary722 BC: God sends Assyrians to deport the 10 northern tribes.
605 BC: First deportation of Israel by Babylon 597 BC: Second deportation of Israel by Babylon 586 BC: Third deportation of Israel by Babylon 539 BC: Cyrus the Persian overthrows Babylon. 538 BC: Zerubbabel leads the first return to Jerusalem. 458 BC: Ezra leads the second return to Jerusalem. 445 BC: Nehemiah leads the third return to Jerusalem. Ezra continues the story from the personal diaries of Nehemiah ("Jehovah comforts"), returning back to their land with the third wave of exiles. 5/5/2021 0 Comments Ezra Commentary722 BC: God sends Assyrians to deport the 10 northern tribes.
605 BC: First deportation of Israel by Babylon 597 BC: Second deportation of Israel by Babylon 586 BC: Third deportation of Israel by Babylon 539 BC: Cyrus the Persian overthrows Babylon. 538 BC: Zerubbabel leads the first return to Jerusalem. 458 BC: Ezra leads the second return to Jerusalem. 445 BC: Nehemiah leads the third return to Jerusalem. Ezra ("Jehovah helps") chronicles the story of the exiles, under the leadership of Zerubbabel and Ezra, returning back to their land, which they lost through their rebellion against their covenant-keeping God, who remains faithful to their survival. 5/1/2021 0 Comments Esther CommentaryOnce upon a time in the kingdom of Persia, there lived an orphan girl by the name of Hadassah ("Myrtle"), who by fortune, was taken in as an unofficially adopted daughter of her older cousin Mordecai, who are both from the tribe of Benjamin, the same tribe from where the first king of Israel hailed, under whose rule the Amalekite king Agag was hacked into pieces some 550 years ago.
Since 486 BC, a Persian king ruled in her days by the name of Ahasuerus, or Xerxes as the Greeks called him. |
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