RESPECT YOUR RULERS
1 Esdras 2:2 (Ezra 2:2)
Thus says Cyrus the king of the Persians: Israel's Lord, the Lord Most High, revealed and indicated to me, the king of the inhabited world, that I should build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judea.
Personal Challenge
Throughout the scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, we are instructed to respect our rulers and to be obedient to them. Why? God has put them into these positions for reasons that we may never know. Here is a case where Cyrus the king of the Persians was user to send the Jewish diaspora back to their home land in order to rebuild Jerusalem. We may never know what God has in mind, but He does want us to be obedient to Him and to show this obedience by respecting those leaders that He has put over us. Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
Thus says Cyrus the king of the Persians: Israel's Lord, the Lord Most High, revealed and indicated to me, the king of the inhabited world, that I should build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judea.
Personal Challenge
Throughout the scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, we are instructed to respect our rulers and to be obedient to them. Why? God has put them into these positions for reasons that we may never know. Here is a case where Cyrus the king of the Persians was user to send the Jewish diaspora back to their home land in order to rebuild Jerusalem. We may never know what God has in mind, but He does want us to be obedient to Him and to show this obedience by respecting those leaders that He has put over us. Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!
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