Ezra 1:1 is a culmination of 70 years of captivity between 587BC-517BC. When you see that in that time God enabled Babylon to disappear and Persia be the instrument of the return. How a mighty nation fell! How a displaced nation came into favour. The motivation for writing this message is to cut to the chase, the purpose of the Captivity is to replace the heart of stone and to give a heart of flesh, to give the Spirit to write the Law of the Spirit in that heart of flesh, a heart to obey the Lord. So in those … Continue reading “I will write the law on their hearts and give them a new heart”