This summer, we have been preaching through Zechariah. Zechariah was a prophet in Jerusalem at the time of the reconstruction of the Temple (recorded in Ezra) and the Walls (recorded in Nehemiah). In Ezra you can read the account of how King Cyrus, the great Persian conqueror, sent the priest and others back to Jerusalem with orders and supplies to rebuild.
Now, here is where today's passage gets miraculous..."When I say of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd,’ he will certainly do as I say. He will command, ‘Rebuild Jerusalem’; he will say, ‘Restore the Temple.’” Isaiah 44:28 (NLT) Isiah goes on about Cyrus in Chapter 45. The miracle is that Isaiah was written almost 200 years before Cyrus was born! Talk about a validation of this prophet hearing from God! 200 years before Cyrus was born, he was named as the king who would order the restoration of Jerusalem. Wow!
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