Tag: Nehemiah
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Culture preserved
Before Ezra the scribe read the law to the people they had abandoned many of the practices that we laud them for today which have preserves their culture over millennia. They had to relearn those things and build the strong and lasting patterns that have since preserved them.
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Nehemiah
While Ezra was the spiritual leader of the people during the rebuilding of Jerusalem it was Nehemiah who had the political clout to secure the material assistance and legal permission that they needed to be restored to their lands. He was clearly interested th the spiritual/religious restoration of the Jews as well.
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Ezra
Ezra seems to have been the chief ecclesiastical or spiritual leader of the people who returned to Jerusalem at the time that Darius decreed that the temple at Jerusalem should be rebuilt. During that process Ezra found the books of the law of Moses and reads the laws to the people publicly and encouraged them…
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21 October 2011
Nehemiah 13 It amazes me how much the people had strayed that the priest at the temple would appoint a room in the temple courts for a friend of his who served one of the gods common to that area. He obviously had no concept of there being a single God apart from the many…
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20 October 2011
Nehemiah 12 They made as big a celebration for the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem as for the temple. It is. I wonder that Jews today still treat what remains of the wall as sacred.
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19 October 2011
Nehemiah 11 The people assigned one tenth of their population to live in Jerusalem while the rest of them lived throughout the rest of the land according to their lineage. This reminds me of the prophecy that in the millennium everyone who lives in Jerusalem will be called holy because only the righteous will be…
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18 October 2011
Nehemiah 10 I wonder what this means when it tells of “those that sealed.” Was that priesthood sealing? I also note that the Levites live off of tithes (as I knew) and gave tithes of those tithes to the temple (which I did not recall).
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17 October 2011
Nehemiah 9 “Thou hast done right but we have done wickedly.” We need to admit when we are wrong before the Lord.
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16 October 2011
Nehemiah 8 Certain leaders among those returning from captivity, such as Ezra and Nehemiah, had testimonies of the Lord’s covenant with Israel but most returned mainly to live in the land of their fathers. After reading the law to all the people they chose to believe and keep the law of Moses which until that…
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15 October 2011
Nehemiah 6 – 7 It is interesting to see all the ways that his enemies tried to distract and misrepresent Nehemiah. He leaned upon the Lord and was able to recognize those who sought to cut his work short by various means.