Ezra 3:1-6
God's restored people are gathered to worship Him according to His Word before their circumstances are fully secure or their rebuilding work is complete.
1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh.
6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.
God's restored people are gathered to worship him according to his Word before their circumstances are fully secure or their rebuilding work is complete.
Ezra shows the returned community gathering as one in Jerusalem to rebuild the altar, resume sacrifices according to the Law of Moses, and keep the Feast of Tabernacles before the temple foundation is laid, making worshipful obedience the first visible act of restoration after return.
The returned exiles have been identified, counted, and settled in their towns. In the seventh month, the major festival month in Israel's calendar, they gather in Jerusalem for renewed worship.