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581. Tattenai's Letter to King Darius ⏤ Ezra 5:6-17

8/27/2018

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581.


Adversaries Write To Darius

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Today's Passage: Ezra 5:6-17


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12th strategy.
History - So, now I know where it is.



Again, I would like to emphasize, simple acts of meditation are not so much difficult, as uncomfortable.
God wants you to know how His story happened.
How He created the earth, made his children, and how traditions became interwoven into his family.


  • Open your heart. Begin with confession.
  • Ask God to prompt you to hear Him and what He wants you to come away with.
  • Read the passage.
  • Does this passage answer questions or lay down foundations of traditions you have often wondered about?
  • Read the passage again.
  • Take a moment to highlight the verses that answer a question you have often wondered about.
  • Has a particular spiritual practice been born out these particular passages. If so, write the spiritual practice down, and then the scripture book and numbers corresponding to it.
  • You might consider writing this in the margin of your bible. or even in the inside cover for future reference.
  • End by asking God to reveal to you the reasons for His traditions. Is there a meaning that applies to you today?
  • Don't forget to thank God for being with you right where you are, right now.


6. This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai the governor, Shethar-bozenai, and the other officials of the province west of the Euphrates River sent to King Darius:
7. "To King Darius, Greetings.

8. "The king should know that we went to the construction site of the Temple of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being rebuilt with specially prepared stones, and timber is being laid in its walls. The work is going forward with great energy and success.

9. "We asked the leaders, 'Who gave you permission to rebuild this Temple and restore this structure?'
10. And we demanded their names so that we could tell you who the leaders were.

11. "This was their answer: 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel.
12. But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he abandoned them to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who destroyed this Temple and exiled the people to Babylonia.
13. However, King Cyrus of Babylon, during the first year of his reign, issued a decree that the Temple of God should be rebuilt.
14. King Cyrus returned the gold and silver cups that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of Babylon. These cups were taken from that temple and presented to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom King Cyrus appointed as governor of Judah.
15. The king instructed him to return the cups to their place in Jerusalem and to rebuild the Temple of God there on its original site.
16. So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the Temple of God in Jerusalem. The people have been working on it ever since, though it is not yet completed.'
17. "Therefore, if it pleases the king, we request that a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to discover whether King Cyrus ever issued a decree to rebuild God's Temple in Jerusalem. And then let the king send us his decision in this matter."
Ezra 5:6-17 NLT


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4 Comments
CC
8/27/2018 07:23:20 am

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RC
8/27/2018 08:56:39 am

Politics - doesn't sound like it is much different today than it was thousands of years ago.

I had to giggle a little when I read this. Basically, a questioning of whether or not these Israelites had the right to rebuilt their temple on this ground. Did they even belong there? Did the decree really happen? Whether it happened or not, would you please decide and tell us how we should be treating these people.

LOL - I know it is not a laughing matter. But the reality of the repetition of these same thoughts over centuries.It just struck me as so HUMAN!

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CC
8/27/2018 10:18:07 pm

Well..... He does tell us that there is nothing truly new.

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b c
8/27/2018 04:11:14 pm

I agree...politics

Pilate tried the political move trying to pass the decision on Jesus to Herod. Luke 23:6-7

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