The Character of God: The Sovereignty of God

We all like to believe in an all-powerful sovereign God.  However, when God does things on his own timetable, He can seem very unfair, to us.  In the story of king Cyrus, God fulfilled his promise to rescue the Israelites from Babylonian captivity, but why did it take him 150 years?  God didn’t change His plan.  He told the prophet Isaiah this is exactly what would happen, 100 years before Cyrus was even born!