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Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return
Ezra 1:1-11
3/25/2018
Background
Background
OT pattern
Disobedience / Warning
Mercy / Grace / Punishment
Repentence / Restoration
Rinse and Repeat
70 years of captivity ending
Restoration
Instrument
Prophecy
Timeline
Jeremiah 25:4
And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened.
Isaiah 44:28
Who says of Cryus, He is my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure, saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” and to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” “Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus whose right hand I have held…
Jeremiah 29:10
Thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.
John 13:19
Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He.
Isaiah 45:3-4
That you may know that I, the Lord, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel... I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me.
Timeline
Jeremiah (586-570 B.C.)
Isaiah (700-681 B.C.)
Ezra (457-444 B. C.)
Cyrus (539 B.C.)
Why?
Jeremiah 25:8
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard My words, behold I will send and take all the families of the north and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and will utterly destroy them...
Jeremiah 25:11
And the whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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Cyrus
A great world ruler
Conquered the Babylonians
The Lord God has given me
Shown prophecy?
Commanded to build temple
Exiled
Free to go
Not a typical response
Support
- The journey itself was long, dangerous, and expensive.
- They returned to a city in ruins with no proper homes, roads, or city institutions.
- They didn't have all the material resources they needed.
- They had many enemies.
- Their land was actually the possession of another empire.
Support
Encouraged support
Resources
Small percentage
Stirred by God
Incredible odds
If good, then God
Phil 2:13
Where God guides...
Phil 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Closing
Articles returned
Nebuchadnezzar
Valuable
Exchanged carefully
Temple worship