sanctity of Zion needs to be bathed in prayer, but without the sovereign intervention of Yahweh, in the hearts of the king of Persia, the rulers, and all the people in Yehud, the work could not have begun and this sense of community (which reminds us of Paul’s notion of koinonia/partnership in Phil 1:6) would have had very little traction. As Zechariah had claimed (Zech 4:6), the building up of God’s work is “not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit.” To this day, we must remember that every venture