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Exile Return - Cyrus, the Pagan Messiah: When God's Chosen Was a Persian King

Exile Return - Cyrus, the Pagan Messiah: When God's Chosen Was a Persian King

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In 538 BCE, Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great issues a decree allowing exiled Jews to return home—and an Israelite prophet calls this pagan king God's "messiah." Host Sol Bishop explores how this audacious theological claim revolutionized monotheism, transforming Israel's God from a national deity into a universal sovereign who works through unlikely instruments.

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