September 10, 2011 – Ezra 2:29 - 3:13

I like the image of the older generations weeping at the start of the new construction for the new Temple. It is so hard for them to leave the old Temple in the past, even though it is destroyed and gone. Imagine their devastation watching it being destroyed.

This is another time when we see the age of 20 and up being used for a task. In the wilderness, all the 20 pluses were the ones that were not going to enter the promise land. I just found it curious that 20 seems to be the age when boys become men, yet Mary was 14 when she had Jesus and that seems to be a normal age. I have always heard that girls mature faster than boys, and that does not appear to be something new but Biblical.