Ezra 1 and 2
Acts 22
Acts:
Membership has its privilege, they say. And Paul is a Roman citizen, which afforded him privileges that others did not have in Roman society.
What privileges come with membership in our church or in our community that aren't afforded to others?
Ezra:
Under the reign of Cyrus, "king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four corners of the world", peoples who had been taken into exile were allowed a measure of self determination. His philosophy of rule was that people who were allowed to go about their own lives made better subjects.
Here is a map of his empire. He lived from 600 to 530 BCE.
Notice how it stretches from Western Turkey all the way to Kazakhstan and the Indus River in the East.
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