2ndo retorno Ezra 8-10- ENG
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Viviendo De Acuerdo a La Ley De Dios
Viviendo De Acuerdo a La Ley De Dios
El capitulo 8… nos da mas detalles acerca de el segundo retorno a Jerusalen
1 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Versos 2-14 tenemos un enlistado de las familias que regresaron en el 2o viajo… cerca de 2000 personas....
15 Now I gathered them by the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there.
Esdras esta listo para su retorno
Ya tiene autorizacion del Rey
Ha recebido oro y plata del Rey y del pueblo
Tenemos enlistado familias dispuestas a regresar
El empieza a reunir a las familias junto al rio Ahava… es un manantial… (productos cuidado personal del rio ahava…)
Acamparon ahi tres dias esperando reunir a todos
Note: encontro gente “familias” y Sacerdotes
Pero no hallo ningun Levita
Dacerdotes son de la linea de Aaron… los que ofician las cermonias sacerdotales.
Levitas son hijos de Levi… quienes manegan todo lo del Templo
Musicos, Ujieres, Guardianes, Oficiales del templo, jueces y personas
More details of the return
Ezra 8:15 – 3 day camp at Ahava…
15 Now I gathered them by the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there. 16 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leaders; also for Joiarib and Elnathan, men of understanding. 17 And I gave them a command for Iddo the chief man at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo and his brethren the Nethinim at the place Casiphia—that they should bring us servants for the house of our God.
No levites
He sends for Levite men…
Ido Casafia…. Send us Levites….
18 Then, by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, with his sons and brothers, eighteen men;
– Brought the sons of Mali…
Sherubiah, hashabia.. Jeshia.. Marari…
Temple servants…
38 levites
220 temple servants…
Ezra 8:21 – I proclaimed a Fast
21 Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions. 22 For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.” 23 So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.
Humble to seek safe journey
Ashamed to ask King
- The hand of God is with us and against those who will harm us
All that can go wrong… bandits… wild animals…
Why not ask King for soldiers… to protect the treasure
I was bragging about our God…
Now I cant go and ask for soldiers
Concern about his actions…
Ezra doesn’t want to shame God…. God is able…
No instead Fast and Pray…
Angels go before us….
People see how we live… cloud of witnesses….
What are we telling them about our God..
Words (what you say) and actions (What we do)
What if you are talking about security in God… and then it starts shaking and you freak out
GOD IS ABLE – DIOS PUEDE Libranos del mal
WE TRUST ON GOD
Ezra 8:24 – Set apart prists – weighed out treasure
24 And I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests—Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them—25 and weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes, and all Israel who were present, had offered. 26 I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, silver articles weighing one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold, 27 twenty gold basins worth a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of fine polished bronze, precious as gold. 28 And I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord; the articles are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord God of your fathers.
Pray and prepare
He distributes the treasure to account for it
The Hand of God was upon us… 4 months
God kept us safe
Cuando llegaron a Judah
On the 4th day – treasure was weighed…before Jerusalem prists…
Nothing was lost
They offered worship… victims for the safe trip
V36 – delivered the Kings letters to governors….
Chapter 9
1 When these things were done, the leaders came to me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, with respect to the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
V1 – the officials – report sin
They have not separated themselves… and taken wifes for themselves and sons
Holy race has been mixed
Intermarige with Cananite and persian dominion…
Violating command of God…
THEY DO NOT KNOW THE LAW OF GOD
THEY DO NOT READ GODS INSTRUCTIONS
“Lampara es a mis pies tu palabra y lumbrera a mi camino”
2 For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass.”
. – Taken daughters of the land
- The hands of oficials and chiefs
- Priests even
- Have intermarried with pagans
- Leading families
- Marriage was also for prosperity…
- Treaties etc
- Commerce and trade…
- Financial gain
V1 also says - “abomination” pagan worship practices…
- Did not separate themselves
Deut. 7:3-4 “do not take their daughter” they will turn you away” The Lord will be angry”
3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
Ezra knew these word… of MOSES
The people did not know it… or chose to ignore it!
2 Cor. 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked….
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
Consequences…
33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”
bad company
Sence of morality
Intimate connection….
We rub shoulders with the world…. But we are not obligated…..
EZRAS RESPONSE
Ezra 9:3 – Ezra tore his garment and pulled his hair… appaled/horrorizado
3 So when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down astonished.
This is what got us in trouble in the first place…
How can we do the same thing again….
We’ve been conquered
Taken in exile
still under dominion
How can they endanger themselves?
How can you allow this?
Response of sorrow
Got the attention of the people
Ezra 9:4 – all who trembled …. Gathered around till evening sacrifice…
4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.
_ because of the reaction to the news
- Aware of what was happening
- The people gathered appalled also
Atterorizados de ver como fue afectado Esdras
Ahora tienen mas corage para tomar acción…
Aquí hay uno Esdras que tiembla en la presencia de Dios
- Tenían un corazon que fue impactado….
Ezra 9:5 – at evening sacrifice 3-4PM
5 At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God. 6 And I said: “O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens. 7 Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to humiliation, as it is this day. 8 And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage. 9 For we were slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem. 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments, 11 which You commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land, with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from one end to another with their impurity. 12 Now therefore, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons; and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.’ 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this, 14 should we again break Your commandments, and join in marriage with the people committing these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor? 15 O Lord God of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. Here we are before You, in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”
- ESRAS PRAYER
Rose from fasting… - Prayed to God…
- I am ashamed to come to you
- Our sins are great
- our guilt is terrible
- Our fathers have sinned we have sinned
- We have been given into the hands of the kings of the lands
- To the sword… to plunder
- To shame
- FOR a brief moment we saw the favor of God
- A small remnant has returned… that we may see your goodness
- We are salves
- What shall we say to you
- We have sinned
- The impurity of the land
- Do not give your sons in mairriage
Will you not be angry against us again!
Non can stand before you
1. Ezra describes all sin
2. You have been so good… and now we spit in your face
Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very bitterly. And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have taken pagan wives from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel in spite of this.
1. A great assembly gathered out of Israel…. They wept bitterly
a. People drawn to Ezras horror
2. He doesn’t offer sacrifices immediately
a. He offers a contrite Spirit
b. Psalm 51:17
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.
3. Lo que se necesita no es religiosidad sino arrepentimiento genuino
4. Diferencia entre arrepentimiento y remordimiento (remorse)
a. 2 Cor 7:9-10
9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
5. Remordimiento es insincero… tristeza del mundo…
a. Estoy triste no por lo que hice… sino porque me descubrieron
b. Verdadero da nueva vida
2 Chr 7:14 si mi pueblo se humillare
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
Peter repent turn to God
Juan
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
si confesamos
We preach repentance from sin…. Careful with those who do not!
A great assembly gathered
- Weeping
- Crying
- The work of the Holy Spirit
Imagine if USA would weep and repent….
- Pray for an Awakening in the USA and the world….
- RESPONSE TO GOD
Avivaminto – Es Arepentimiento y Salvacion
2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have taken pagan wives from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel in spite of this. 3 Now therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and those who have been born to them, according to the advice of my master and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. 4 Arise, for this matter is your responsibility. We also are with you. Be of good courage, and do it.”
V2 – Shekaniah
- Recognizes his sin
o We have broken Gods law
o Have married foreign women
o But there is Hope for Israel
- He gives hope to Ezra
- Lets do this
V3 - Let us make a covenant
- To put away these wives
- According to the law
- Arise
- We are with you
- Be strong
- Lets do it
“Put away wives”
- Dissolve marriage
- God hates divorce
- Messy solution
- Leser of two evils
- Violation of mosaic law
- Threaten ethnicity
- North had lost their uniqueness… Samaritans
Maintain the covenant chosen people….
- Separating from sin is messy
- Get rid of sin…
- Cut it off
Sarah le dijo a Abraham que mandara a Hagar y su hijo Ismael que se vaya…
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.” 11 And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s sight because of his son. 12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called. 13 Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.”
Este caso es muy unico
De ese linaje de Judah vendrá el Cristo el Hijo de Dios… Jesus…
Hoy es pureza Espiritual y no racial…
Esto no es libertad para divorcio
13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
Ezra 10:5 – pacto
5 Then Ezra arose, and made the leaders of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear an oath that they would do according to this word. So they swore an oath.
- Ezra morned the faithlesness of the people…
V7 – proclamacion se reunirse en Jerusalén…
Si no vienen no serán parte del pueblo
Le gente tenia temor
Y frio en la lluvia
Hagan confesión y separance de las esposas paganas…
Y todos acordaron…
Los nombres de los sacerdotes que tomaron mujeres paganos estan escrito en estos versos… para verguenza de ellos y para reocrdar a Israel de la magnitud del pecado...
Gracias a Dios por la Gracia...
No estamos aqui para poner a nadie en verguenza....
Un dia todos padeceran ante el trono tribunal de Cristo...
Los de condenacion para su verguenza...
Los salvos no sufriran verguenza porque Jesus perdono nuestros pecados...
18 Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. 19 He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.
WE HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN…. There is no shame for those who are in Christ
la palabra de Dios… trajo
Avivamiento de arrepentimiento y salvacion
reforma del pueblo se Israel a regresar a ser el pueblo de Dios