Isa 44:28 NIV who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of Jerusalem, “Let it be rebuilt,” and of the temple, “Let its foundations be laid.” ’
http://www.easyenglish.info/bible-commentary/isaiah41-55-gc-lbw.htm- Verse 28 Now God will rescue his people again, as he rescued them from Egypt many centuries before. This time Cyrus, the King of Persia, will be his agent. Actually, God describes Cyrus as ‘his *shepherd’. A *shepherd is a sheep farmer. The ‘sheep’ mean God’s people. Cyrus is like the farmer who cares about his sheep. The *temple was God’s house in Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar destroyed it in 587 *B.C.
It astonishes Bible students that Cyrus’s name appears here. Isaiah lived more than a century before Cyrus’s birth. Bible students have two possible explanations:
(1) Because God knows everything, he told Isaiah Cyrus’ name. This may surprise us, but God did a similar thing in 1 Kings 13:2.
(2) A later *prophet, and not Isaiah, wrote these words. But in Isaiah chapter 44, God emphasises that, unlike an *idol, he really does know the future. If God told Cyrus’s name to Isaiah, that would be powerful evidence of that fact.
http://www.easyenglish.info/bible-commentary/isaiah41-55-gc-lbw.htm- Verse 28 Now God will rescue his people again, as he rescued them from Egypt many centuries before. This time Cyrus, the King of Persia, will be his agent. Actually, God describes Cyrus as ‘his *shepherd’. A *shepherd is a sheep farmer. The ‘sheep’ mean God’s people. Cyrus is like the farmer who cares about his sheep. The *temple was God’s house in Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar destroyed it in 587 *B.C.
It astonishes Bible students that Cyrus’s name appears here. Isaiah lived more than a century before Cyrus’s birth. Bible students have two possible explanations:
(1) Because God knows everything, he told Isaiah Cyrus’ name. This may surprise us, but God did a similar thing in 1 Kings 13:2.
(2) A later *prophet, and not Isaiah, wrote these words. But in Isaiah chapter 44, God emphasises that, unlike an *idol, he really does know the future. If God told Cyrus’s name to Isaiah, that would be powerful evidence of that fact.
