Saturday, January 27, 2024

Stay away from there. Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God

 Ezra 6:1-22

King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon. A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it:

In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits[a] high and sixty cubits wide, with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury. Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God.

Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you other officials of that province, stay away from there. Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site.

Their expenses are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop.

Furthermore, I decree that if anyone defies this edict, a beam is to be pulled from their house and they are to be impaled on it. And for this crime their house is to be made a pile of rubble. May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem.

Why?

It is the Lord who made King Darius issued an order to search in the archives stored in the treasury and found it.

Then the same order is issued, and everyone stays away from there. Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. And the costs are to be paid by the royal treasury.

The people of Israel obey the order of King Darius, and King Darius under the order of the Lord. So every Christian do not be frustrated or discouraged to our environment, for the Lord is our savior and strongholder.

How?

Praise the Lord and obey God's word for my Lord is Great and beyond this world, everyone should come to worship the Lord.



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