The New Man in Christ

All quotes are from the NIV unless otherwise noted This book should be the next to the last book of the Hebrews Scriptures. It was written about two years before the book of Malachi so about 432 before the birth of Christ. Different people or groups have different timelines based on the birth of Christ when did it happen?  There is a growing number of people who believe that Christ was born in September of three BC because of the alignment of the stars in that year. Some believe it happened in 5 BC because of a slight error when the original calendar was put together in the dark ages. Be that as it may remember it was the next to the last book written.  1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem. “Chislev.” The nin...

All scripture is quoted from the English Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Ezra 9 1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. “the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites….” This list in Ezra would have immediately reminded Ezra of God’s command in Deuteronomy 7:1-4 , in which God commands that those nations that inhabited Canaan were to be driven out and that the Israelites were not to intermarry with them, and if they did intermarry then they would be turned away from the God of Israel. Five of the eight pagan nations listed here in Ezra 9:1 are in the list in Deuteronomy 7:1 , and the Israelites who lived in the land were living according to ungodly pagan practices. No w...