Cyrus the Great
194Hadassah, Queen of Persia
27 May 2024
7:54¶ 30
“The situation is not so removed from our own, where we expect greater and greater things for the kingdom of God, and yet we…”
2:00¶ 6
“So here we are and yes, this is a real problem because the original tabernacle system was initiated from Mount Sinai, God telling Moses,…”
13:53¶ 46
“Darius, faced with, “Oh, you’re asking about royal precedent. I guess I have to listen to that one, don’t I?” orders a search and…”
193Cyrus, King of Persia
20 May 2024
3:51¶ 14
“Cyrus in fact is the one who issues the decree to rebuild the temple, to restore the Jewish people to their land, initiating the…”
19:57¶ 64
“He does not know how many people this will be, from wherever they are to this little land in the corner of Palestine, but…”
19:23¶ 63
“Let’s take a moment and look at what’s happening in Israel. Cyrus releases God’s people. He makes it a decree, but it is one…”
192The Medo-Persian Empire
14 May 2024
29:21¶ 103
“How does Cyrus know about Yahweh? How does he know that Yahweh has commissioned him to build the temple and the city? Where did…”
29:49¶ 104
“He is one of the most messianic typical Gentiles in the whole Bible. You have to go back to Melchizedek to find a Gentile…”
28:46¶ 102
“Now, there’s more to it than that and it’s a detailed and at times little bit tedious study, so I’m not going to try…”
163Priorities and Providence
5 Jun 2023
2:54¶ 15
“Zerubbabel and Joshua have a clear mandate from the Lord to be about this business. The city was included both in prophecy and more…”
3:23¶ 16
“All of that together gave Cyrus time to, well, die, his son to die even faster, an imposter to try to seize the throne…”
5:16¶ 19
“He had learned something from his namesake, a previous Darius who had thrown Daniel in the lion’s den and who was probably himself Cyrus.…”
162Building Together
29 May 2023
21:13¶ 54
“Now, here’s the interesting thing in all of this. They refuse the help of these outsiders because in their minds they’re pagans, but Cyrus…”
39:48¶ 103
“This isn’t America, where once the government gives you money, we know that later on they’re going to try to regulate you. This comes…”
159The Restoration Era
20 Mar 2023
20:46¶ 68
“Cyrus becomes a key figure of Christ. He’s the shepherd, he’s the anointed, he’s the one who authorizes this exodus out of Babylon and…”
19:33¶ 62
“He goes on and talks to him and about him a little bit more, but that’s the heart of it. Through Isaiah, God names…”
16:11¶ 53
“Somewhere in there, Cyrus is raised by a woman whose name means ‘wolf,’ so Cyrus, like everybody else in the world, is raised by…”
158Daniel in the Lion's Den - A Resurrection Story
6 Mar 2023
50:33¶ 187
“We’ve been dealing with Cyrus all along by his title that the Medes apparently knew him by, which was Darius. His given name was…”
50:53¶ 188
“As a Mede he fulfills the prophecy of Jeremiah that the Medes would destroy Babylon, and as Cyrus he fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah,…”
49:00¶ 182
“Back in chapter 5 the last verse says threescore and two years – he’s 62, so he’s young enough to be Cyrus, and he’s…”
157The Handwriting on the Wall
20 Feb 2023
3:25¶ 16
“Meanwhile, the Persian empire was growing to the north. Cyrus had managed to unite the Medes and the Persians, related groups, kissing cousins and…”
21:23¶ 87
“Daniel is more of the mindset of, “I know where this is going.” He’s read the prophecies of Jeremiah and Isaiah. He’s probably met…”
12:28¶ 49
“Interestingly enough, all the commentators I’ve read on this pretty well agree that it means he lost control of his bowels at this point.…”
147The Course of Empire
5 Dec 2022
18:27¶ 74
“The Persians come along and Cyrus, the first Persian emperor, and God calls him “my shepherd, my anointed, my messiah, the one who will…”
21:36¶ 81
“Fortunately, God explains this. He says, “This ram that has the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.” First there was…”
19:25¶ 77
“Nebuchadnezzar understood that fairly well. Cyrus and Darius and the first few Persian kings got that. Alexander – Josephus said he had a dream…”
146To Gain the Whole World
28 Nov 2022
32:13¶ 98
“We don’t run into Cyrus until much later in the book, but what it means is Daniel survives during the whole length of the…”
32:38¶ 99
“When Babylon falls, Daniel doesn’t. Daniel survives. He outlived the Babylonian empire. He outlived his captors. And when Cyrus comes, he is put in…”
34:48¶ 104
“One of the many reasons I hate Bible story books is you see the pictures and you see Daniel as a teenager being thrown…”