Nehemiah Ch. 6 Part 3

The Plot to Undermine him

After the last time we met, we covered the plot that his enemies planned to intimidate Nehemiah.

By using a so called prophet of God to cause Nehemiah to be fearful of imaginary assassins.

a. Starting with Tobiah, Sanballat, Geshem the Arab, here in ch 6. The enemies of Nehemiah were unrelenting in there pursuit of stopping the work of God.

2. Now, after vs s 1-14. Nehemiah leads his people into completing the wall in a record 52 days!

a. All the enemies, seeing that the wall had been completed became afraid and perceived that God has been with them because no matter what they tried to do to stop it they could not succeed.

3. Now, we have another plot brewing.

a. It is to undermine him. How?

b. But let us first remember that the building of the wall required great determination.

c. The rebuilding programme had been undertaken during the hot summer months between late July and mid-September, when hard relentless work of that character must have been desperately exhausting.

d. But now it was done and, for centuries, even when that particular wall had been replaced, the project would remain as a unique tribute to its leader’s vision, his colleagues’ tenacity and, most of all, the Lord’s help. Here was yet another testimony to the providence and protection of God.

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Raymond Brown, The Message of Nehemiah: God’s Servant in a Time of Change, eds. J. A. Motyer and Derek Tidball, The Bible Speaks Today, (England: Inter-Varsity Press, 1998), 106–107.