Positivity Successor - Episode 434 - Positivity Successor (Ezra 4-5)

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

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Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. This goes from Monday through Sunday, including holidays, every season, every year, including leap year. Thanks to tune to the light changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to positivity successor episode 434. Continue on with the Bible. Let's get into it. Opposition to the rebuilding. 4.

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the ex-examination. exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel, they came to Zerubabel, and to the heads of the families, and said, Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Hussar Haddon, king of Assyria, who brought us here. But Zerobababal, Jesua, and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the Lord.

The God of Israel has King Sirius, the king of Persia commanded us. then the people is around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building they hire counselors to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus King of Persia and down to the reign of Darius King of Persia later opposition under Exeris and Artaxeris

At the beginning of the reign of Exeris they lodged an accusation against the people of Judah and Jerusalem and the days of Artaxeris, King of Persia, Bishlam Bichlam, Mithradath, Tabel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxeris. The letter was written in Aramic script in the Aramic language. Rahum, the commanding officer and Shumshay, the secretary wrote a letter against Jerusalem to our taxeris, the king as follows. Rahm, the commanding officer and Shemshay, the secretary together with the rest of their associates.

The judges and officials over the men from tributtal. Persia, Eresh, and Babylon, the Alamites, Absouza, and the other people whom the great and honorable Ashura Benipal deported and settled in the city of Samaria and elsewhere in trans-Ephrates, trans-euphrates. This is a copy of the letter they sent him. To king are taxis from your servants, the men of trans Euphrates. The king should know that the Jews who came up to us from you have gone to Jerusalem and are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are restoring the walls and repairing the foundations. Furthermore, the king should know that if this city is built and its walls are restored,

no more taxes, tribute, or duty will be paid, and the royal venue revenues will suffer. Now, since we are under obligation to the palace, and it is not proper for us to see the king dishonored, We are sending this message to inform the king to that search may be made in the archives of your predecessors. In these records, you will find that this city is a rebellious city, troublesome to kings and providences, a place of rebellion from ancient times. That is why this city is. was destroyed. We informed the king that if the city is

built and its walls are restored, you will be left with nothing in trans Euphrates. The king sent this reply. To Raham, the commanding officer, Shem Shea, the secretary,

and the rest of their associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in trans euphrates. Greetings. The letter you sent us has been read and translated in my presence. I issued an order and a search was made and it was found that the city has a long history of revolt against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition. Jerusalem has had powerful kings ruling over the whole of trans-Euphrates and taxes. Tribute and duty were paid to them. Now issue an order to these men to stop work so that this city will not be rebuilt until I sell order.

Be careful not to neglect this matter. why let this threat grow to the detriment of the royal interests? As soon as the copy of the letter of King R. Taxorus was read to Rahm and Shemshay, the secretary and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and compelled them by force to stop. Thus, the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a stand still until the second year of the reign of Darius, King of Persia. That's what we're going to stop. We'll pick back up with Tatane's letter to Darius, five. Did you know who were the enemies of the Jews? Four won.

Many years before this, when the king of Assyria took the people, of Israel captive, he arranged for other people to settle in their land. Those people were pagans because they thought the Lord owned the land of Israel. Though they started to worship the true God along with their old page and idols. Now they offered to help. The Jews rebuild God's temple. The Jewish people would not allow their pagan. neighbors to help this made

to help. This made these neighbors angry and they tried to stop the Jews. Life in Bible times. Letters. In Old Testament times, letters were often written on clay tablets. Marks were pressed into soft clay that was then hardened. and placed in clay envelopes.

Later, letters were written on animal skin or on a kind of paper. The paper was made by gluing together flat layers of the stem of the papyrus. Popperis read. Our word paper has its beginnings in the word papyrus. Papyrus. Papyrus. Thanks to say to our St. Barreid,

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