Cyrus as the one who would issue the decree for Jerusalem’s reconstruction. Read it for yourself—God says “Cyrus,” Lindsey says “Artaxerxes,” and Paul says, ‘Let God be true and every man a liar” (Rom. 3:4). Another example of premillennial oblivion to the obvious is seen in their interpretation of the land promise to Abraham (Gen. 12:7; 15:7). Millenarian apologists want to argue hard and long that this promise has never been completely fulfilled (e.g., Walvoord 174–193). But no amount of sophistry