Difference between revisions of "Israel and Humanity - The Second Temple"

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The construction of the Second Temple reproduced almost the same circumstances as the Temple of Solomon. We know the considerable part that Cyrus has taken to this restaurant. "King Cyrus gave the order to rebuild this house of God. Even King Cyrus took from the temple of Babylon the vessels of gold and silver of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple of Jerusalem and carried in the temple of Babylon, he was appointed to deliver Sheshbazzar, it establishes the governor and he said, Take these vessels, will place them in the temple of Jerusalem, and the house of God be rebuilt on the place where it was ". A few lines later: "The first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus gave this order on the house of God in Jerusalem:" The house was rebuilt to be a place where sacrifices are offered, and it has solid foundations. "And the book of Ezra adds that when Darius was in a roll records the story of what Cyrus had done to rebuild the temple, he published his turn a similar edict:" Let continue the work of this house of God, the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild on the site it occupied ... Things needed for the holocausts of the God of heaven, young bulls, rams and lambs, wheat, soil, wine and oil will be delivered on request, to the priests of Jerusalem, day by day without fail, so they offer sacrifices of sweet savor the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his son ... That the God who reside in this place its name backwards every king and every nation that would extend his hand to break my word to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem.

Not only the King Cyrus was the instrument of the rebuilding of the Temple, but the God of Israel who had charge of this company, and the reconstitution of the Jewish homeland and this gives this period of Jewish history of particular importance in view of reports of the Gentiles with the Mosaic. "The Lord touches the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, which was made orally and in writing this publication in his kingdom." And a prophet did God say: "I say to Cyrus:" It is my shepherd, and he will do all my will. He will say to Jerusalem: Whether rebuilt! and Temple, it is based! "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus that he holds hands, to subdue nations before him ..." so that you know that I am the LORD who calls you by your name, the God of Israel for the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by name, I've spoken with kindness before you know me . I am the LORD, and there is no other ".

Moreover, it seems that all phases of the history of Israel the same circumstances should be repeated, humanity is called to make such cooperation. Found in the book of Isaiah similar predictions. Israel will be carried in the arms of the people among whom he is exiled. These nations and their kings will take part in the rebuilding of the Temple: "The son of the foreigner have rebuilt your words and their kings shall be thy servants" and which demonstrates that it is a voluntary assistance of competition that spontaneous 'and it is not a physical bondage imposed by the victors the vanquished, it is the announcement of the sacrifices that these Gentiles have to offer, all herds Nedar all rams Nebaioth will flow to the altars of the true God and this idea of sacrifice clearly implies that a tribute to free worship.

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