Ezra 4:12 KJV
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
Ezra 4:13 KJV
Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
Ezra 4:15 KJV
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Ezra 4:18-20 KJV
The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
Repeatedly the accusation is made that Jerusalem is a rebellious city. When then king did a search he learned that in fact, Jerusalem had been rebellious in the sense that she had never been a part of the pagan culture of the nations around her and there had always been war between those cultures and Jerusalem.
Jerusalem had rebelled against the world as it was in their day.
The other day I was reading some history of one of our church members who had passed away. Brother Winfrey's family had come from England originally and one of his English relatives wrote (back in the 1950s) that the Winfrey family has always been associated with what the English call dissenters; those that would not conform to the Church of England.
There is a sort of dissension and rebellion that is right when it is rebellion against this world and its systems. Christians ought to be kind people. We ought to be moral people and we ought to be ethical and legal people. However we must always obey God rather than men, and if a search is made through the records of this world, it ought to be established that we have always been those who consistently have done just that.
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
Ezra 4:13 KJV
Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
Ezra 4:15 KJV
That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
Ezra 4:18-20 KJV
The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.
Repeatedly the accusation is made that Jerusalem is a rebellious city. When then king did a search he learned that in fact, Jerusalem had been rebellious in the sense that she had never been a part of the pagan culture of the nations around her and there had always been war between those cultures and Jerusalem.
Jerusalem had rebelled against the world as it was in their day.
The other day I was reading some history of one of our church members who had passed away. Brother Winfrey's family had come from England originally and one of his English relatives wrote (back in the 1950s) that the Winfrey family has always been associated with what the English call dissenters; those that would not conform to the Church of England.
There is a sort of dissension and rebellion that is right when it is rebellion against this world and its systems. Christians ought to be kind people. We ought to be moral people and we ought to be ethical and legal people. However we must always obey God rather than men, and if a search is made through the records of this world, it ought to be established that we have always been those who consistently have done just that.
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