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 |  Subject: Jews: Time For Trump To Follow Footsteps Of Cyrus The Great  Sun Sep 03, 2017 7:07 am | |
| Jews: Time For Trump To Follow Footsteps Of Cyrus The GreatSeptember 3, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor  More than 2,500 years ago, the Persian King Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, conquered Babylon and proceeded to make history by permitting the Jews to return to Jerusalem from exile and rebuild the Temple. His actions were so momentous that in the book of Isaiah (45:1), God refers to Cyrus as “His anointed one,” and the entire first chapter of the biblical book of Ezra is dedicated to highlighting Cyrus’s decree. Indeed, twice in the opening verses, Cyrus is quoted as referring to “Jerusalem, which is in Judah,” as if to stress that the most powerful man in the world at the time was recognizing to whom the city truly belonged. Even now, thousands of years later, the Persian king is still held in high regard in the annals of the Jewish people. With a stroke of his pen, Trump can add his name to the pantheon of Jewish heroes by conferring US recognition upon Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state and moving its embassy accordingly.(READ MORE) |
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