Ezra 1:7-11 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem… There was a great restoration of misappropriated property. What a restoration there will one day be. What have men taken away from God's Church? Nearly everything they could lay hands on. They have taken away gold, art, music, miracles, inspiration, rationalism, morality, science, and they have left God a very bare house. When the period of spiritual revival has come, and the holy issue is wrought out in all its meaning, all these things will be brought back again. Art will come with her brush and pencil, and say, "I will beautify the house of God's revelation." Music will bring back her harp and her instrument of ten strings, and her cymbals and organs, and say, "Make me a handmaid in God's house, for all I have and am must belong to Him"; and Reason — exiled, expatriated Reason shall return, saying "They have kept me in vile servitude; admit me to my Father's house." And Science will come and pray; and Morality will say, "They have been trying to divorce me from theology, from right religious motive and impulse, and I have died like a flower that has been plucked; restore me to my vital relations, and I will once more bloom in the house of God." (J. Parker, D. D). Parallel Verses KJV: Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; |
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