The Return of a Remnant

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Seventy years later God made a way for the recovery of a small remnant (42,360) led by Zerubbabel and Jeshua, to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. It is most interesting to see in Ezra chapter three that the first thing they did was to "build an altar to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening." They kept also the feast of tabernacles seven days offering in all the 70 young bullocks, 14 rams and 96 lambs (according to Num. 29). "And afterward the continual burnt offering, and those of the new moons, and of all the set feasts... to the Lord." Such overflowing devotedness and faithfulness should characterize those gathered to His precious name, and did over a century ago. Where there is any trace of this nowadays it is most precious to God. But mere pretension to it is "strange fire", Lev. 10:11And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. (Leviticus 10:1).