The book of Ezra is a series on the Trail Back.The book is about returning, rebuilding, reformation, and revival. It offers wonderful insights about these topics as well as other important matters for the Christian to study and apply.Ezra is believed to be the author of the book. His name means “help” and we find that he was a big help to God’s people in a crucial time in their history. This man was a priest of the Lord and very dedicated to God. During the Babylonian captivity, he was unable to serve as a priest, but he did use this time to study the Word of God Ezra 7:6. He did not waste the years.
Some scholars believe that Ezra may have been the person that wrote 1st and 2nd Chronicles as well as Psalm 119 which exalts the Word of God.Ezra’s great grandfather was Hilkiah the priest Ezra 7:1. Hilkiah directed the reformations under the leadership of King Josiah 160 years earlier. Hilkiah was the man who found the Word of God that had been lost in the Jewish Temple for many years because of corrupt kings.