EZRA CHAPTER 3 ðŸ˜
In 2012, an 81-year old lady tried restoring an old painting of Jesus Christ and ended up with this masterpiece.
You think it’s funny. But Matrix Resurrections, I’m looking at you, Keanu.
In Ezra Chapter 3, the 42,000 Israelites arrive in Jerusalem and the first thing they do is build an altar to God, a huge BBQ pit, to offer sacrifices to God.
This was worship. It would be great if worship today had BBQ - Nando’s peri-peri chicken - but this was Old Testament-style worship.
It’s only in Year Two when construction begins on the temple. The whole gang turns up at this construction site and what do they do?
They start singing: For He is good for His steadfast love endures forever!
They were so excited over this temple foundation. But the old-timers, they went Nani! (What?)
We remember the original and it blew our minds! So they start weeping while the kids are singing. It was a mess!
The point is: Worship points us upward to God and some of us will come to him singing but some of us, especially the old-timers, will come to God with tears in our eyes.
The Bible says (Revelation 21:4): He will wipe away every tear just as He will wipe away all death and all sin in the New Heavens and the New Earth when Jesus returns.
