Positivity Successor - Episode 435 - Positivity Successor (Ezra 7-8)

Episode Date: September 3, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:02 Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. This goes from Monday through Sunday, going holidays every season, every year, clean week year. Thanks soon until I like to hear on your podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to positivity successor episode 435. Continue on with the Bible. Let's get into it. The decree of Darius 6. King Darius then issued an order and they served. in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon a scroll was found in the citadel of
Starting point is 00:00:44 Ekbatana in the providence of media and this was written on it memorandum in the first year of king cyrus the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem. Let the temple be rebuilt has a place to present sacrifices and let its foundations be laid. It is to be 90 feet high and 90 feet wide with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid. by the royal treasury. Also the golden and silver articles of the House of God
Starting point is 00:01:42 which Nabudsh Chadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem.
Starting point is 00:01:59 They are to be deposited in the house of God. Now then Tataanai, governor of trans Euphrates and Shethar Bozani.
Starting point is 00:02:20 And you, their fellow officials of that providence, 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
Starting point is 00:02:35 this house of God on its site. Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews and the construction of this house of God. The expenses of these men are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury from the revenues of trans Euphrates so that the work will not stop. Whatever is needed, young bulls, rams, mail-ams for burnt off. offerings to the God of heaven and wheat, salt, wine, and oil as requested by the priests in Jerusalem must be given them daily without fail so that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and praying for the well-being of the king and his sons. Furthermore, I decree that if anyone
Starting point is 00:03:40 changes this edict a beam is to be pulled from his house and he has to be lifted up and impaled impaled on it and for this crime his house is to be made a
Starting point is 00:03:57 pile of rubble may God who has caused this name to be dwelled there overthrow overthrow overthrow any king or people who lifts the hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.
Starting point is 00:04:31 Completion and dedication of the temple. Then, because of the decree, King Darius had sent, Tataanai, governor of Trans-Hufrates and Shethar Tosni, and their associates carried it out with diligence. So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Hagai, the prophet, is Acharya, a descendant of Ito. They finished building the temple according to the command of the god of Israel. Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxeris, King of Persia. The temple was completed on the third day of the month, Adar. In the sixth year of the reign of King Darius, then the people of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles,
Starting point is 00:05:38 celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy. For the dedication of this house of God, they offered 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 male lamps, and has a sin offering for all Israel, 12 male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel. And they installed the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem
Starting point is 00:06:12 according to what is written in the book of Moses. The Passover On the 14th day of the first month, the exile was celebrated the Passover. The priests and Levites had purified themselves
Starting point is 00:06:31 and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exhaled for their brothers, the priests and for themselves. So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their gentle and gentile neighbors in order to seek the Lord, the God of Israel.
Starting point is 00:07:11 For seven days they celebrate, with joy, the feasts of unleavened bread, because the Lord had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria, so that he assisted them in the work on the
Starting point is 00:07:28 house of God, the God of Israel. And that's what we're going to stop. We'll be back up with Ezra comes to Jerusalem, 7. Let's live it. Ezra 6, 13, 13, through 18. Dedicated to God.
Starting point is 00:07:48 To dedicate here means to promise, to use the temple to worship God and serve him there. Read about the dedication service in Ezra 613 through 18. Here are some ways you can learn more about dedicating things to God. One, if people dedicate babies at your church, listen carefully. What do the mom and dad promise? What does the congregation promise? What does the minister say in his prayer? Two, listen carefully to the prayer of dedication
Starting point is 00:08:33 when the church offering is received in the worship service. Three, think about the things you have. Is there anything you would like to declare, would like to dedicate to God? For instance, you might dedicate your school books to God. Pray and tell God that you will study hard so you can be ready to serve them when you grow up. Thanks to your internship and barry, you're up until a positive successor. Remember to the back of the reflections of ourselves in the mirror to all the beautiful and handsome people out there.
Starting point is 00:09:20 Because your work in progress will get you when you want to the light. that. Thanks to sharing the internet Shimbabari. Another episode, a positive successor. God bless, amen. Turn to tomorrow for the next episode, a positive successor. God bless, amen.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Have a positive day.

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