This short video helps us understand the world as it was during the biblical narrative unfolding in our upcoming look at chapter 21 in THE STORY. This chapter covers Ezra, Nehemiah and Malachi. All of which, like last weeks look at the book of Esther take place under the Achaemenid/Persian empire.
This will be our last sermon in the series covering events in the Old Testament. We will move to the New Testament the following week.
Ancient Near East - Artaxerxes I
Artaxerxes I introduced a new Persian strategy of weakening the Athenians by funding their enemies in Greece. This action, formed the end of the Greco-Persia...
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