Do you think if God was in charge of the aspirations of this pagan Persian monarch and leader [Cyrus] that he is not in charge of the details of your own life and family? And all those little things that you are worried and concerned about, and bring to the house of God with you as you gather together for worship [every Sunday]? God is in control. God is in absolute and total control of every event and every detail, and every facet that happens. Providence: it is a kind of biblical historiography. God is in charge here. You want to know why these things happen? God did it. God moved his heart.1
Derek W. H. Thomas
1 La première année de Cyrus, roi de Perse, afin que s'accomplisse la parole de l'Eternel prononcée par la bouche de Jérémie, l'Eternel réveilla l'esprit de Cyrus, roi de Perse, qui fit faire de vive voix et par écrit cette publication dans tout son royaume: