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Jews' Return to PalestineLevites, in my realm, that areminded of their own free will togo to Jerusalem, go with thee . . . .and to carry the silver and gold,which the king and his counsellorshave freely offered unto theGod of Israel, whose habitationis in Jerusalem ."Neh . 2 :5-8 "And I said unto theking, If it please the king, and ifthy servant have found favor inthy sight, that thou wouldestsend me unto Judah, unto thecity of my father's sepulchres,that I may build it . And theking said unto me (the queen alsositting by him), For how longshall thy journey be? and whenwilt thou return? So it pleasedthe king to send me ; and I sethim a time . Moreover I said untothe king, If it please the king,let letters be given me to thegovernors beyond the River, thatthey may let me pass throughtill I come unto Judah ; and aletter unto Asaph the keeper ofthe king's forest, that he maygive me timber to make beamsfor the gates of the castle whichappertaineth to the house, andfor the wall of the city, and forthe house that I shall enter into .And the king granted me, accordingto the good hand of myGod upon me ."Modern repatriation not to rebuildtemple . (Old temple sitenow occupied by Moslemmosque)Ezra 1 :1-5 "Jehovah stirred upthe spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,so that he made a proclamationthroughout all his kingdom, andput it also in writing, saying,Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia,All the kingdoms of the earthhath Jehovah, the God of heaven,given me ; and he hath chargedme to build him a house in Jerusalem,which is in Judah. Whosoeverthere is among you of allhis people, his God be with himand let him go up to Jerusalem,which is in Judah, and build thehouse of Jehovah, the God of Is-214rael (he is God), which is inJerusalem . . . . Then rose up theheads of fathers' houses of Judahand Benjamin, and the priests,and the Levites, even all whosespirit God had stirred to go upto build the house of Jehovahwhich is in Jerusalem ."Ezra 6 :14, 15 "And the eldersof the Jews builded and prospered,through the prophesying ofHaggai the prophet and echariahthe son of Iddo . And theybuilded and finished it, accordingto the commandment of the Godof Israel, and according to the decreeof Cyrus, and Darius, andArtaxerxes king of Persia . Andthis house was finished on thethird day of the month Adar,which was in the sixth year ofthe reign of Darius the king."True worship not restored evenaccording to Moses' lawEzra 3 :1-3 "And when the seventhmonth was come, and thechildren of Israel were in thecities, the people gathered themselvestogether as one man toJerusalem. . . . and builded the altarof the God of Israel, to offerburnt-offerings thereon, as it iswritten in the law of Moses theman of God. And they set thealtar upon its base ; for fear wasupon them because of the peoplesof the countries : and theyoffered burnt-offerings thereonunto Jehovah, even burnt-offeringsmorning and evening ."True priesthood could not be restoredtoday since genealogiesdestroyedEzra 6 :18-20 "And they set thepriests in their divisions, and theLevites in their courses, for theservice of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the bookof Moses . And the children of thecaptivity kept the passover uponthe fourteenth day of the firstmonth . For the priests and theLevites had purified themselvestogether ; all of them were pure :and they killed the passover for