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Daily Fountain 2017 - Faithful God





Thursday August 17

Bible Reading:     Ezra 2: 1 - 19
Topic:                  Faithful God

This passage gives a long list of the families of the first set of exiles who returned from the captivity in Babylon, led by Zerubbabel the Governor and Jeshua the High Priest (v. 2; Neh. 7: 7; Haggai 1: 14)

Those mentioned in verse 2 were probably the leaders of the returning exiles. Each returned to his own town (v. 1)

The Babylonian exile had been a very humiliating experience for Israel as a Nation. A large number of the people died by the sword or from starvation (Jer. 52: 10 - 11). Others were forced into exile to different cities in the vast Babylonian Empire. Only the very poor were left in the land probably under worse conditions than those who had been exiled (Jer. 52: 15 - 16)

Yet after 70 years of desolation, the Faithful God remembered them and fulfilled His promises, "bore them on eagles' wings" and brought them back to their homeland (v. 1; Isa. 43: 5)

This same God remains faithful even today. You may have been humiliated, harassed or subjected to some form of captivity because of disobedience in your life.

No matter what these may be or how long they may have lasted, put yourself on the side of the redeemed and believe God for complete restoration

Prayer
O God, help me to have faith in You always, Amen.

Memory Verse             Ezra 2: 1
"Now, these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away when Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon had carried them away unto Babylon and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his own city."

Source:     The Daily Fountain 2017
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)

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