Nehemiah's Message: Key to Revival

I have been meditating in the Book of Nehemiah this week. This is a Book that deserves greater attention than it gets. There are numerous implications and applications in its passages. It is interesting that the name Yeshua appears 18 times in this Book. When an unbelieving Jew reads this Book, does the thought that Yeshua could be the name of the Messiah ever enter his consciousness? Maybe that is one reason this Book is seldom read in Judaism. Round and round the cycle goes with the Torah portions....yet this neglected Book sheds considerable light on the violation of Torah and its consequences....and holds the key to revival and restoration.....godly sorrow and teshuvah. God’s people must sanctify the Sabbath and become a peculiar, set-apart people.... resisting pagan/worldly influences and unholy alliances.

Thought for today: Outlandish women caused even Solomon to sin (Nehemiah 13).


Excerpt from Nehemiah 9:

.....but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness....when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven.....But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.....


.....Remember me, O my God, for good (Nehemiah 13:31).