....and there was a revival with Nehemiah.....perhaps you skimmed over some of the new residents of Jerusalem like I did...but can you imagine if you were in there, and you could show all your kids...."Look..here is Mom's name, yep, right here in the Bible...want me to autograph it for you?" It was important to those people and the geneology of the Jewish people. The description of the dedication of the walls was pretty cool to me....two choirs singing in response to each other on the top of the walls....what a sight and sound that must have been.
Nehemiah had to return back to his job with King Antaxerxes.....when he came back, he was dismayed to find that Tobiah, one of the major opponents to the building of the wall...he was an Ammonite, and he had his own room! He, by law was forbidden to worship in the temple.....Not cool backsliding People....wouldn't you have liked to have seen Nehemiah pitching all of Tobiah's stuff out of his room....then he had to purify the rooms! The Levites had not been given there portions that they were due and had to go back to farming their fields.....you just wonder how the Israelites can backslide so much over and over....they were working on the Sabbath and not resting and remembering Creation as God commanded them to do. Why didn't the people just do what they were supposed to do? Do you think God thinks that right now when He looks down on the earth? Yikes!
Psalm 126 (I can now honestly say that we have finished with the Psalms....)
God does great things and releases from Captivity.......Scholars think this may have been written at the beginning of Ezra's time......Is there any Captivity that you need to be released from? Have you been released from any Captivity? I have and there is nothing like the freedom that God gives when you are obedient!
Look what comes up from the depths of the sea.
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