Freedom Is Given By Jehovah, Restore His House!!

We will be coming from The Book of Ezra 1:1-2:70; 3:1-4:5 & 4:24-5:1.  During today’s Word, Jeremiah prophecies are fulfilled with the freedom of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah to return to Jerusalem from their 70 years of being exiled in Babylon.  Their assignment is to rebuild the Temple of Jehovah. 

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord  by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying, Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem. Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all whose spirits God had moved, arose to go up and build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord: “For He is good, For His mercy endures forever toward Israel.” Then all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord , because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the descendants of the captivity were building the temple of the Lord God of Israel, Thus the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, ...Ezra 1:1-5,3:11,4:1- NKJV