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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

So, what’s so bad about complaining? One – it reveals a thankless heart. How much easier is it to complain about the two things we don’t have as compared to being grateful for the thousands of things we do have? How can we follow the commands to rejoice always (Phil. 4:4) and be thankful for all things (1 Thes. 5:18) if there is a mere morsel of complaining in our hearts? Two – complaining reveals greater sins. Why do we complain? Because we are jealous that someone has what we want. Because we are selfish that things are not going our way. Because we are discontent and unsatisfied in Christ’s sufficiency. And three – complaining distrusts the sovereignty of God. Complaining implies that God made a mistake; that He not ruling the world with perfect justice and wisdom and quite frankly, we could do a better job. That He’s personally unloving and unkind to us. Can we rightly accept the fact that God has a good plan for our lives, or do we complain in believing ours is better and thus cast doubt on our sovereign Creator?
Randy Smith

Some theological writers have ingeniously drawn an analogy between creation and providence, atonement and intercession; that just as Providence is the sustaining of the creative work – so that if Christ’s continual upholding arm were withdrawn, the outer material world would soon lapse into disorganization – so, the intercession of Jesus is the carrying out, and carrying on, of His propitiatory and mediatorial work – the complement of the great salvation consummated on Calvary.
John MacDuff

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    MEDO-PERSIAN Kingdom

    1. Extended from India to Ethiopia # Es 1:1
    2. Peopled by descendants of Eliam # Ge 10:22
    3. ILLUSTRATED BY 3a) Silver part of image in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream

      # Da 2:32,39

    3b) A bear # Da 7:5 3c) A ram with two horns # Da 8:3,20 4) Shushan a chief city of # Es 1:2 8:15 5) Achmetha or Ecbatana a chief city of # Ezr 6:2 6) Divided into many provinces # Es 1:1 Da 6:1 7) Laws of, unalterable # Da 6:12,15 8) Ruled by, absolute kings # Es 3:8,11 7:9 9) KINGS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE 9a) Cyrus # Ezr 1:1 9b) Ahasuerus or Cambyses # Ezr 4:6 9c) Artaxerxes Smerdis (an usurper) # Ezr 4:7 9d) Darius Hystaspes # Ezr 6:1 Da 5:31 9e) Xerxes # Da 11:2 9f) Artaxerxes Longimanus or Ahasuerus # Ezr 6:14 7:1 Es 1:1 10) KINGS OF 10a) Called kings of Assyria # Ezr 6:22 10b) Called kings of Babylon # Ne 13:6 10c) Styled themselves king of kings # Ezr 7:12 10d) Dwelt in royal palaces # Es 1:2 8:14 10e) Were exceeding rich # Es 1:4 Da 12:2 10f) Entertained magnificently # Es 1:3,5,7 10g) Held in their hand a golden sceptre # Es 5:2 10h) Put to death all who approached them without permission # Es 4:11,16 11) Celebrated for wise men # Es 1:13 Mt 2:1 12) People of, warlike # Eze 27:10 38:5 13) Peculiar customs in # Es 1:8 2:12,13 14) Babylon taken by the king of # Da 5:20,31 15) The Jews delivered from captivity by means of # 2Ch 36:20,22,23 Ezr 1:1-4 16) PREDICTIONS RESPECTING 16a) Extensive conquest # Da 8:4 16b) Conquest of Babylon # Isa 21:1,2 Da 5:28 16c) Deliverance of the Jews # Isa 44:28 45:1-4 16d) Invasion of Greece under Xerxes # Da 11:2 16e) Downfall by Alexander # Da 8:6,7 11:3

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