We have to understand that it is not interracial marriage that is in view here, but interfaith marriage. That is what is in view. That is what Satan was trying to do to destroy that godly line, the seed. And now we see, once again, that as the people have come back to the land of Judah, have rebuilt the temple, and Jerusalem is being re-established, Satan is at work. And what is he doing to the people who return to the land? He is sowing the seeds of interfaith marriage again. Obviously, he is trying to undermine the integrity and the purity of the people of God, because this is a crucial step to prepare the way for the Messiah. The people have to come back to the land and at least partially fulfill the return promises in order to build that bridge for the Messiah to be able to come into the world. Of course, Satan is opposed to that.1
Brian Borgman
1 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.