Ezra Chapter One - What if We Make Them Like Us?

The iron fistedness of Assyria and Babylon. It was brittle. They couldn't keep everybody in line. So the Persians are like, what if we make them like us? And so Cyrus demonstrates that that is to be his administrative modus operandi by saying, all right, we got these people that are called the Jews and they're here in exile. He takes a situation that seemed like it would never change. This exile is going to be forever and he flips it on its head - there's another chance.