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Turn to the book of Nehemiah.
Let’s pray...
Lord we pray that You will abide with us and touch our lives this morning, as we turn to the Word of God, that You will come very near and speak to every heart, we need the help of the Spirit.
That He make take the word that we study as a church and bring it home to our hearts.
Lord speak and speak powerfully.
May a real work be done in this church, for You and Your glory.
We pray for the body of Christ to be instructed and to be built up.
So help us we pray, we as in the Savior’s name & for the Savior’s sake.
AMEN.
Let me catch you up on don’t know how well you know your Old Testament, so I’m going to catch you up.
Let me catch you up on don’t know how well you know the Old Testament, so I’m going to catch you up.
Don’t worry.
I’m not going terribly long.
It’s not like I’m not going to start in ’m going to start in Exodus.
God calls the nation of Israel out from under the tyranny of Egypt,
leads them up to the border of the Promised Land, the land flowing with milk and honey.
There the people of Israel
doubted the goodness of God,
doubted the grace of God,
doubted the power of God.
So God allowed them to wander in the wilderness for 40 years
while he killed off that generation who refused to put their trust in him.
Then under Joshua (not under Moses), God leads the people of Israel into the Promised Land.
He drives out the Canaanites, and they are established as a nation.
They began to look around, and they want a king.
God gives them the desire of their heart, which was a king.
He gets a man’s man.
Saul, according to the Bible, was a foot taller than any other man in Israel,
the best hunter, had muscles coming out of his turtleneck, just hair everywhere.
Just a man’s man.
Men wanted to be him.
Saul, like our brothers and sisters in the wilderness who
doubted the goodness of God and doubted the provision of God, doubted God and
offered sacrifices that were unacceptable to God
doubted God and offered sacrifices that were unacceptable to God
and was removed as king and replaced by David,
who was a shepherd boy who played the harp.
So we went from a foot taller than everyone else …
In fact, when the prophet came to anoint the new king, David’s dad Jesse had forgotten about him in the field.
He presented all his sons, and the prophet literally said, “Hey, God is telling me you have another child.”
Jesse is going, “Oh yeah, David.
I just didn’t think you would want David at all.”
So David is made king, and under David’s kingship, Israel flourishes.
In fact, all the threats against the nation of Israel are in many ways crushed under the reign of David.
He goes to war against the Philistines.
He goes to war against anyone who threatens the borders of Israel.
Man, he wrecks shop.
In my head, I can’t get my mind around why the Philistines kept going, “Let’s try that again!”
Then when David dies, he turns the kingdom over to his son Solomon.
Solomon builds the temple to the Lord, and peace and that reign of David continue to happen.
Israel becomes a regional power, no real threats to its border, and it is flourishing.
You begin to see some concern on Solomon’s part about what would come after him
if you pay attention while you’re reading the book of Ecclesiastes when he says,
“What good is wealth and power if your children are fools?
You’re just going to pass that wealth and power on to fools.”
Sure enough, right after Solomon, you see in the nation of Israel that
there was a regional power fracture.
The Kingdom is broken into two kingdoms: the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom.
The northern kingdom was called Israel, and
The southern kingdom was called Judah.
The northern kingdom did not fare well at all.
They had wicked king after wicked king after wicked king after wicked king.
Finally in 722 BC, the Assyrians laid siege to the northern empire and deported and really spread across the ancient empire
the Israelites in the northern kingdom of Israel.
Judah fared a bit better.
They had a Southern king.
There’s something about those Southern states.
They were able to hang in here a bit longer, and they had
a godly king and wicked king,
a godly king and wicked king,
a godly king and wicked king.
But 136 years after the northern kingdom is conquered and the people are deported and exiled,
the southern kingdom of Judah falls,
not by the Assyrians but now the Babylonians,
who are the reigning & ruling empire in the world at that time.
in the world at that time.
So then the Babylonians export and deport the Israelites in the southern kingdom and
spread them across the ancient world as slaves and servants to the reigning Babylonian Empire.
Now just to catch you up on history, Persia shows up and decides they’re going to run the world.
So the Persians now conquer the Babylonians who had conquered the Assyrians.
Now the Persian Empire has taken root in the ancient world.
Then in 2 Chronicles.…
I feel like I don’t even need to mention 2 Chronicles
so many of you probably have that book memorized.
At the end of 2 Chronicles, the Holy Spirit hard presses Cyrus, the king of Persia,
that the Jews should be released to go back (or at least a portion of the Jews)
to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
That’s where we get the book of Ezra.
Now here’s something interesting.
The book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah are happening simultaneously in history.
In fact, in some ancient manuscripts, Ezra and Nehemiah are one book, not two.
They’re one book, not two.
So that’s where we are in history.
Now let’s pick it up in , starting in verse 1.
— The words of Nehemiah ...
Nehemiah was a Jew, born in exile after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586 BC.
He lived in a bad age, so far as the destiny of his people was concerned.
Yet like other Jews before him—
Daniel and his three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, as well as
Mordecai and his young ward Esther, who became the queen of Persia—
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