State sponsored Propaganda - EZRA 4

State sponsored misinformation. disinformation. malinformation is going on for thousands of years. If one examines closer the enemies of Jews, the anti-Jewish ploy to stop the rebuilding of Jerusalem, anarchists and political activists perform similar roles in 21st century.

God Yahweh had decreed that Cyrus would be anointed even before the monarch was born and would be overthrow a world superpower by an engineering feat.

Medo/Persia overthrew Babylon and the elite of the Israelites were then educated in the languages, cultures, mathematics, politics of Babylon. Some remained as prophets, priests, some rose to high political office. Those whose heart remained with Yahweh encouraged the Jews to return and rebuild despite much opposition.

The anti-Jewish politicians and their employees lied to the monarch Artaxerxes about the intentions of the Jews. The propaganda achieved its aim and the work was temporarily stopped until the monarch was able to establish that his subjects were behaving responsibly.

Today countries such as Russia, China, USA etc are well known for disseminating state sponsored cyber warfare - a war of words as it is sometimes called, sometimes cyber war campaigns are led from within a host country against their own nation.

The message is clear - question everything you see and hear. It is so easy to be misled by fake news.

1 JOHN 4:1-4