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Ezra 4:12 · BSB
4:12 Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you to us have returned to Jerusalem and are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are restoring its walls and repairing its foundations.
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…And so God's people, to much fanfare and rejoicing, they begin to build the temple again in Jerusalem in 536 BC. And you can read about that inEzra chapter 4. But the thing is, 16 years after that initial bit of enthusiasm, Project Temple 2.0 has completely fizzled out. The people have just lost the…
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…most profitable for the Persian Empire at this time. We know that Artaxerxes doesn't have any particular love for Yahweh because we already read inEzra chapter 4that he shut down some of Nehemiah's wall building projects a few years later. So it's not that he's converting to Yahweh worship, but…
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Well, what doesEzra chapter 4have in common with Chick-fil-A? Oh goodness. And you know the news you've been following, I'm sure, with the uh difficulty with Chick-fil-A, that…
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…in, the surrounding neighbors are hearing about this and they object, and they're going to cause problems. We'll see these problems next week inEzra chapter 4. But it's fascinating to me that their enemies start circling, and so they're in a rush. What is the first thing they do? Uh-oh, our enemies are…
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…been almost 150 years ago when he first carried off the people of Israel into exile. Most likely, it was bad news about a more recent setback. InEzra chapter 4, Ezra chapter 4 includes one incident that sort of fast-forwards to the time of King Artaxerxes and time of the book… sort of between… probably…
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Well, good morning, church. Our text today isEzra chapter 4. That starts on page 363 of the Pew Bible, I believe. Go ahead and turn there with me. That's Ezra chapter 4. As we come to God's word together,…
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…year of Cyrus' reign, and the building gets stopped. And this is because new enemies of Israel have arrived on the scene. This is described inEzra chapter 4. The building gets stopped. Now it doesn't get stopped indefinitely, it gets resumed again, but there's a lot of political negotiations that go…
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…need to understand the task that was ahead of him before we move on. He's serving as the cupbearer of King Artaxerxes. Artaxerxes, you can read inEzra chapter 4, has put out an edict to stop the building of the wall. The wall was being built some 20 years earlier. There was an effort being put forward to do…
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