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STORY 81 Trusting in God’s Help MANY thousands of people make the long trip from Babylon to Jerusalem. But when they arrive, Jerusalem is just a big ruin. Nobody lives there. The Israelites have to build everything all over again. One of the first things that they build is an altar. This is a place where they can make animal offerings, or gifts, to Jehovah. A few months later the Israelites begin building the temple. But enemies living in lands nearby don’t want the Israelites to build it. So they try to frighten them to make them stop. Finally, these enemies get the new king of Persia to make a law to stop the building work. Years pass. Now it has been 17 years since the Israelites came back from Babylon. Jehovah sends his prophets Hagʹgai and Zech·a·riʹah to tell the people to start building again. The people trust in God’s help, and they obey the prophets. They start to build again, even though a law says that they are not to do it. So a Persian official named Tatʹte·nai comes and asks the Israelites what right they have to build the temple. The Israelites tell him that when they were in Babylon, King Cyʹrus told them: ‘Go, now, to Jerusalem and build the temple of Jehovah, your God.’ Tatʹte·nai sends a letter to Babylon and asks if Cyʹrus, who is now dead, really said that. Soon a letter from the new king of Persia comes back. It tells that Cyʹrus really said it. And so the king writes: ‘Let the Israelites build the temple of their God. And I command you to help them.’ In about four years the temple is finished, and the Israelites are very happy. Many more years pass. It is now almost 48 years since the temple was finished. The people in Jerusalem are poor, and the city and God’s temple do not look very pretty. Back in Babylon, the Israelite Ezʹra learns about the need to fix up God’s temple. So do you know what he does? Ezʹra goes to see Ar·ta·xerxʹes, the king of Persia, and this good king gives Ezʹra many gifts to take back to Jerusalem. Ezʹra asks the Israelites in Babylon to help him carry these gifts to Jerusalem. About 6,000 people say they will go. They have a lot of silver and gold and other precious things to carry with them. Ezʹra is worried, because there are bad men along the way. These men might take away their silver and gold, and kill them. So Ezʹra calls the people together, as you can see in the picture. Then they pray to Jehovah to protect them on their long trip back to Jerusalem. Jehovah does protect them. And after four months of traveling, they arrive safely in Jerusalem. Doesn’t this show that Jehovah can protect those who trust in him for help?
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PRIČA Povjerenje u Božju pomoć NA TISUĆE ljudi vratilo se je iz Babilona u Jeruzalem. Ali, kad su stigli, Jeruzalem je bio tek velika ruševina. Nitko tamo nije živio. Izraelci su morali izgraditi sve iz početka. Jedna od prvih stvari koje su obnovili, bila je oltar. To je mjesto gdje će prinositi životinjske žrtve ili darove Jehovi. Nekoliko mjeseci kasnije Izraelci su započeli graditi hram. Ali neprijatelji koji su živjeli u susjednim zemljama, nisu željeli da Izraelci izgrade templ. Stoga su ih željeli uplašiti i zaustaviti u gradnji. Konačno, ti su neprijatelji otišli do kralja Perzije s ciljem da načini zakon o prestanku gradnje tog hrama. Godine su prošle. Sada je 17. godina otkako su Izraelci došli iz Babilona. Jehova šalje svoje proroke, Ageja i Zahariju da kažu narodu da opet počnu s gradnjom. Narod je vjerovao u Jehovinu pomoć i poslušali su proroke. Ponovo su počeli graditi, iako je zakon branio gradnju templa. Stoga je Perzijski upravitelj, Tatanaj, došavši upitao Izraelce tko im je dao vlast da izgrade templ. Izraelci su mu odgovorili da im je Kir dok su bili u Babilonu rekao: “Idite i izgradite u Jeruzalemu templ svom Bogu, Jehovi.” Tatanaj je poslao pismo u Babilon i upitao da li je Kir bio taj koji je zaista to rekao. Uskoro je došlo pismo od novog kralja Perzije. Govorilo je da je Kir to zaista rekao. Kralj je pisao: “Pusti Izraelce da izgrade templ svom Bogu. I zapovijedam ti da im u tome pomogneš.” Za oko četiri godine, templ je bio završen, a Izraelci sretni. Mnoge su godine prošle. Sada je gotovo 47 godina otkako je templ završen. Ljudi u Jeruzalemu su siromašni, a templ u gradu ne izgleda baš lijepo. Tamo u Babilonu, Izraelac Ezdra, saznaje da bi trebalo učvrstiti Božji templ. I znaš li što je učinio? Ezdra je pošao Artakserksu, kralju Perzije i taj mu je dobar kralj dao mnoge darove da se vrati u Jeruzalem. Ezdra je zatražio od Izraelaca u Babilonu da mu pomognu nositi te stvari u Jeruzalem. Oko 6 000 ljudi reklo je da će poći u Jeruzalem. Imali su mnogo srebra, zlata i ostalih skupocjenih stvari koje su ponijeli sa sobom. Ezdra je bio zabrinut, jer je bilo mnogih zlih ljudi na putu kojim su išli. Oni su ih mogli napasti i uzeti im srebro i zlato i ubiti ih. Zato je Ezdra skupio ljude, kao što vidiš na slici. Tada su molili Jehovu da ih zaštiti na njihovom dugom putovanju u Jeruzalem. Jehova ih je zaista i štitio. I nakon četiri mjeseca puta, sigurno su stigli u Jeruzalem. Ne pokazuje li to kako Jehova štiti one koji pokažu povjerenje u njegovu pomoć? Ezdra 2–8 poglavlje