Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE JEWS MOURNING OVERTHE RUINS OF JERUSALEM I went out by night, . . . and viewedthe walls of Jerusalem, which werebroken down. Neh. 2:13. The decree of Artaxerxes was most comprehensive (Ezra7), authorizing the full restoration of the civil and rehgiousadministration of Jerusalem and Judea. And Inspirationspecifically sums up all the decrees as completed only in thatof Artaxerxes, which thus constituted *the commandment: They builded, and finished it, according to the com-mandment of the God of Israel, and according to the com-mandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king ofPersia. Ezra 6: 14.
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REBUILDING JERUSALEM They builded, and finished it, accordingto the commandment of the God of Is-rae/, and according to the commandment ofCyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes kiii^of Persia. Ezra 6:14. A Great Prophetic Period 225 According to this scripture, the full going forth of thecommandment to restore and to build, dates from this de-cree of Artaxerxes. And this decree went forth 4n the sev-enth year of Artaxerxes the king. Ezra 7:7. What year was this seventh year of Artaxerxes — a dateso important to fix to a certainty? The great chronological standard for the kings of theancient empires is the canon, or historical rule, of Ptolemy.Ptolemy was a Greek historian, geographer, and astronomer,who lived in the temple of Serapis, near Alexandiia, Egypt.From ancient records he prepared a chronological table ofthe kings of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome (carryingthe Roman list to his own time, which was the second centuryafter Christ). Along with his list of kings and the years oft

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