lSee 1 Cor. 9:25
Ezra 4:4-6
4Then athe people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build 5and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.6And in the reign of bAhasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra 4:24
24Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.Daniel 10:20
20Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the cprince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of dGreece will come.Zechariah 3:1-2
A Vision of Joshua the High Priest
1Then he showed me eJoshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and fSatan ▼▼Hebrew the Accuser or the Adversary
standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2And the Lord said to Satan, h“The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has ichosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this ja brand ▼▼That is, a burning stick
plucked from the fire?” Ephesians 6:12
12For lwe do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against mthe rulers, against the authorities, against nthe cosmic powers over othis present darkness, against pthe spiritual forces of evil qin the heavenly places.1 Thessalonians 2:18
18because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan rhindered us.
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