Survey of the book of Nehemiah

Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Nehemiah. This was written, well, by Nehemiah.

This is about the time that we have of the book of Ezra. This is

Nehemiah after that 70 year Babylonian captivity that we mentioned earlier.

Nehemiah was someone who was the cupbearer of the king in Medo -Persian, and he basically had wanted to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.

Ezra had gone back in a first attempt to do that, but didn't fulfill it. And so Nehemiah, who had the ear of King Cyrus, was able to put together a plan, and this book accounts for the plan that he laid out to rebuild the city of Israel.

It's a very important work, because what we see in this book, we see that how

God ends up fulfilling scripture, not only through Cyrus, who is named by name, to be able to give the proclamation that would be the rebuilding of the city, but we end up seeing that here

God puts Nehemiah in a specific place at a specific time to have Cyrus' ear so that he might be the one to rebuild the temple.

Now here's where it gets interesting, is because not all of Israel agreed with him, and you see in the book where he had to struggle not only with enemies from outside of the camp of Israel, but even those within, and he had to deal with it, and he dealt with it for God's glory, and that's what really we see, is that God is glorified in the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

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