The stone wall is mentioned in chapter 3 this is the wall around Jerusalem. We see in the prophecy in Daniel 9:25 The street (open Square) shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times. That is what's going on here. Nehemiah received word that the walls of Jerusalem were broken down and the gates were burnt.
Nehemiah then asked the king if he might go to Jerusalem. The nobles of Judah were whimpering because of all the damage and rubbish, they did not want to rebuild the wall because Samaria and the surrounding countries threatened to attack, they had little to no faith (troublous times). A prayer to God from Nehemiah and the wall and gates went up in 52 days Nehemiah 6:15.
Read Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther covers that time in the return from captivity.
Ezra 5:2,3, this account also in Nehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 2, Nehemiah 4,
The wall may have actually had the most opposition: Nehemiah 2:10,19,20, Nehemiah 4:7,8,11,15, Nehemiah 6:1-6, Nehemiah 6:9-13, Nehemiah 6:19, the biggest enemy of rebuilding the temple seemed to be complacency Haggai 1:4,5, Haggai 1,
There have always been false prophets and teachers who have sought to derail the work of God. We must focus on the Scripture, while redeeming the time for the days are evil.
Verse 3~Nehemiah was very calm in his reply and he simply focused on finishing the work. We can take a lesson from Nehemiah and do our best not to involve ourselves in unnecessary drama.
A great work of building the wall was moving ahead and almost finished, because God was behind it! Right in step with the prosperity and progress of the righteous; the devil and his sons are working feverishly with deep conspiracy and many traitors on every side; SEEKING TO PUT US IN FEAR THAT THE WORK MIGHT CEASE! What an important thing for all of us to understand about this present time!
Sounds like to me that he was basically asking why should he come down to be a part of their mischief when he is busy doing a good work. Like, why should he go an take part in something unfruitful when what he was doing was far more important and fruitful. Hope that helps. Just what I got from it.
Wade I cannot find in the bible where it supports 'if we do not follow the Gospel we are not a child of God and the power of God is not with us '. I would like for you to discuss further your basis for this opinion. This is a broad statement that could be highly misinterpreted. I highly disagree with your statement. Or maybe confused. The power of God has been with me several times when I wasn 't following the Gospel.
My thoughts on this is that we will have no opposition from satan until we start doing Gods work and then o buddy get ready to have your life flipped up side down. If you read your Bible, pray, go to church and give the Gospel for Christ Gospel romans 3 10, Romans 3 23 Romans 6 23 Romans 5 8 Romans 10 9 10, 13 . These few things will cause you to have opposition like Nehemiah. That is... Unless you have not followed the Gospel your self and what those verses say I wrote above because if we do not follow the Gospel we are not a child of God and do not have the power of God with us.
Yvette The walls were important back then for defense of a city. He also didn 't want to get side tracked going to the king. Nicola I don 't think it is a sin to get scared but how we react to fear is what could be a sin. Jesus sweated blood in fear and distress but what made him sinless is that he obeyed God and went to the cross any way.
Nehmiah had the gift of discernment. This is a good spiritual gift to possess. It shows that there is an enemy who wants to stop our progress. This scripture shows also that fear is asin.
The stone wall is mentioned in chapter 3 this is the wall around Jerusalem. We see in the prophecy in Daniel 9:25 The street (open Square) shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times. That is what's going on here. Nehemiah received word that the walls of Jerusalem were broken down and the gates were burnt.
Nehemiah then asked the king if he might go to Jerusalem. The nobles of Judah were whimpering because of all the damage and rubbish, they did not want to rebuild the wall because Samaria and the surrounding countries threatened to attack, they had little to no faith (troublous times). A prayer to God from Nehemiah and the wall and gates went up in 52 days Nehemiah 6:15.
Read Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther covers that time in the return from captivity.
Hope this helps,
God bless,
RLW
Luke 2:36,
If you're wondering about women Prophetess: Joel & the book of Acts also Corinthians, speaks about them,
Also falsely Revelation 2:20, Nehemiah 6:14
Hopefully these are helpful
The wall may have actually had the most opposition: Nehemiah 2:10,19,20, Nehemiah 4:7,8,11,15, Nehemiah 6:1-6, Nehemiah 6:9-13, Nehemiah 6:19, the biggest enemy of rebuilding the temple seemed to be complacency Haggai 1:4,5, Haggai 1,
Hopefully these are helpful
Noadiah ( Nehemiah 6:14); Hananiah (Jeremiah chapter 28); Ahab & Zedekiah ( Jeremiah 29:21); Barjesus/Elymas ( Acts 13:6); the false prophet in Revelation 16:13; 19:20; 20:10.
Deborah, Judges 4:4,
Huldah, 2 Kings 22:14,
Noadiah, Nehemiah 6:14,
Isaiah 8:3, name I didn't find, (Isaiah's wife)
Anna, Luke 2:26,
Joel 2:28
Hopefully these are helpful
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