{"id":3046,"date":"2026-04-10T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:59:58","slug":"april-12-2026-ezra-1-cyrus-decree-allows-jews-to-rebuild-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"April 12, 2026 &#8211; Ezra 1 &#8211; Cyrus&#8217; Decree Allows Jews to Rebuild the Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 70 years in exile, Jews are now going to be allowed to return to their homeland and rebuild their Temple. God :stirs the spirit&#8221; of Cyrus the Great, who offers to smooth the way for their return to the Promised Land. The story of their return from exile is a picture of revival and restoration, and of finding our place and ministry in the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Ezra1_Notes.pdf\">Notes on Ezra 1:1-11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 70 years in exile, Jews are now going to be allowed to return to their homeland and rebuild their Temple. God :stirs the spirit&#8221; of Cyrus the Great, who offers to smooth the way for their return to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}