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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 61
ISAIAH 42:8 – 45:3 - Part 2
The Word of God. Jews. Isaiah 44:26b
"…that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited;…" Isaiah 44:26c-27
27. (I am the God. That saith to the deep, be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: " If God wants the Euphrates to be dry, He’ll dry it up.
" (I am the God) That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure;…" From history, who was Cyrus? I used this analogy right here. King Josiah was named 300 years before he was born. There is no other Book besides this Book! It is the only Word of God. Everything else is by Satan’s design, not God’s. By the time the Temple is rebuilt we’re down to 400 BC. Verse 28:
"(I am the God) That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd,…" No other Gentile is referred to as one of God’s shepherds. Cyrus is going to set up the decree and make everything ready for the return of Israel to Jerusalem. All right, let’s go back and pick this man Cyrus up in Ezra chapter 1. Nebuchadnezzar overruns Jerusalem and destroys the city and the Temple. Israel is taken out to Babylon for 70 years. Now, they have started rebuilding the Temple in about 546 BC. A hundred years later, about 446 BC or thereabouts, comes Nehemiah and Nehemiah’s instruction is under yet another Emperor called Artaxerxes the King, and we may look at that if we have time, who follows Cyrus, but he’s still an Emperor of the Medes and Persians. The Temple is operating. All right, now when King Herod decided to enlarge the Temple mount, even today if you’re going to enlarge a hillside what are you going to do to hold the dirt in place? Well, you’re going to build a retaining wall. Herod built that huge retaining wall so that he could fill it with dirt and so forth and have more room for the Temple Complex. It’s simply Herod’s retaining wall to hold the fill dirt. Now then, with the Temple Mount enlarged, Herod could build a more beautiful, larger Temple Complex. That was the Temple that was in place when Jesus began His earthly ministry. Ezra 1:1-2a
"Now in the first year of Cyrus the King of Persia, (same guy.) that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD, (Now, always remember that LORD is Jehovah, it’s God the Son.) stirred up the spirit of Cyrus the King of Persia, (Now, remember, who was Persia in biblical times? From a pagan king! See? Ezra 1:2b-3a
"…The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; (the then-known world. Because God saw to it that he did.) and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. (Now, verse 3, so King Cyrus puts out the news to the whole Jewish community.) Now, that’s Israel. Ezra 1:3-4
4. And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of this place help him with silver, gold, goods, beasts beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." Money. Ezra 1:5
Ezra 1:6-7
7. Also Cyrus (this Gentile king) the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods." Nehemiah 2:1a
Now, we’ve got a different king. Nehemiah 2:1b-3
God wouldn’t have let them!
There was nobody building it up. Amongst the trash they built the Temple up there on the mount, but the city itself is still in rubble. Now, reading on in verse 4.
Nehemiah 2:4
"Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven." Right before the king he prayed. God reads your prayers.
Nehemiah 2:5a
"And I said to the king, If it please the king,…" The king gives him letters to give him safe travel and to give him permission to use whatever he needed from the king’s forest to start rebuilding the city. Nehemiah 2:10
Nehemiah 2:11
Now, Nehemiah says:
Nehemiah 2:17a
Nehemiah 2:17b
There were no walls to protect even the builders of the Temple. So, Nehemiah says) come let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach." The wall. We have to get the wall built." Now, verse 18.
Nehemiah 2:18
Everything is accomplished because of the Sovereignty of Israel’s God.) Nehemiah 2:19
Will you rebel against the king?" Nehemiah 2:20
"Then I answered and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem."
That’s what the Word of God says.

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