MidWeek - Episode 24 “Ezra & Nehemiah: Looking Backward”

In the final two episodes of our series on Ezra & Nehemiah, we explore the ways in which this portion of the biblical narrative invites us to look both backward and forward, to the past and also to the future. Initially, in this episode, Trevor and Jon discuss the ‘backward’ dynamic which is seen clearly in the fact that the story of the Exodus from an earlier stage in Israel’s history serves as a kind of template for understanding the return from exile as a sort of “new exodus.” We also reflect on how the Bible’s own use of earlier stories and traditions might inform our contemporary efforts to understand what God is doing in the present, in light of what God has done and how God has revealed Godself already in the past.