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Ezra 9:1-15 || Pastor Stephen Hecht
How does a society dedicated to serving the Lord become corrupted? In our own country 60 years ago God was a much bigger part of our society and our culture was shaped by our love for and obedience to God. Things that would shock our society then are hardly a blip now. How did we get to where we are now?
In Ezra 9 we see a very similar occurrence, as the social norms and customs of the Jews who returned have strayed from the way God commanded them to live when He spoke to Moses. Ezra has apparently seen more Biblical behavior in Babylon then he does here in Jerusalem. How did this happen in the 60 years since the Temple was completed? There were no rebukes of lifestyle issues spoken by the prophets that we have recorded, so this change would seem to have occurred in the years following the Temple’s completion.