If you've been following our recent posts, the Israelis had enemies who questioned them on their right to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem, and then wrote back to King Darius, requesting him to check the court records to see if King Cyrus had indeed ordered them to rebuild their temple at Jerusalem.
In Chapter 5, we see that the King does so, and finds that the royal decree was also to supply everything required for the rebuilding of the Temple.
Incensed and angered by the ones who wrote to him complaining about the Israelis, King Darius orders the enemies of the Israelis (the regional Governor et al) to provide all material wealth required for the Temple, basically, through the taxes they collect from that region.
It's like the plot twist in audience-popular films and drama - the villain (Israel's enemies) is snubbed and the hero (Israel) gains from the villain.
It is an ever-pleasing trope, and one that makes me wonder if the Bible isn't just moral stories written to 'tell' people to be good. But then I remember the rest of the Bible, and my own life, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that every word written in the Word is so definitely true. If such tropes exist in today's world, it is highly possible that they originated from the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible itself, considering that Christianity spread its wings across all continents, with the help of the far-flung yester-year British empire.
The bottomline is this - if we're doing God's will (as we saw in a previous post), then we can be assured that everything will work out right for us. Even if we are killed in the pursuit of His will by our enemies.
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