The 70th week does not start until the Anti Christ appears who make a covenant with many for one heptad (week) a 7 year period. (Site from http://www.biblicalarchaelogy.org) [], [] Nehemiah was a high official in the Persian court of King Artaxerxes I at the capital city of Susa, which lay 150 miles east of the Tigris River in what is now modern Iran. Only this time the Christian chronologists have removed the contextual necessity of association between the command given by YHWH and the 2nd year of Darius even- Artaxerxes. God bless those truly seeking Him. For the purpose of brevity, the word week in this chapter will hereafter represent the Day of Pentecost, although using the full fifty-day time period of the Feast of Weeks will work equally well in the interpretation offered in this chapter.. Four highly acclaimed books, published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution: Aspects of Monotheism, Feminist Approaches to the Bible, The Rise of Ancient Israel and The Search for Jesus. This printer even prints a color photo in black and white or Read more. As a leader with strong Christian values holding various ministerial positions in government at a state and federal level within our country, the writings of Nehemiah was my blue print on how to be strategic, diplomatic and never forgetting my purpose. Of the three commands to rebuild the temple as mentioned in Ezra 6, clearly the command by YHWH through Haggai and Zechariah would be the one a Messianic Zealot or their followers would use to base their claim for the fulfillment of Daniel 9. Defying the opposition of Judahs enemies on all sidesSamaritans, Ammonites, Arabs and Philistines, the original walls of the City of David were rebuilt by the people in 52 days, working with a trowel in one hand & a sword in the other. As governor, Nehemiah says that he didnt take advantage of food and land allotments that were allowed him due to his office, because there was already such a great burden on the people of his province (Nehemiah 5:1419). (Neh.8) This likely indicates this was a Sabbath year. They completed the wall in a mere 52 days (Nehemiah 6:15). 15The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people, and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Should you not walk in the fear of our God, to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? No, this was by no means a wall of Nehemiah, no rebuild per se, yet it did show evidence of repair. I would like to see more biblical dating using David Rohls new Chronology. If you sort through the rather scarce historical references of Messianic expectancy in the 1st century BCE you will find like Newton and Davidson that a huge portion of the Persian era was eclipsed. 7Then I said to the king, If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may grant me passage until I arrive in Judah; 8and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the kings forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy. And the king granted me what I asked, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me. One side is built on the. How many days did it take Nehemiah and his leaders to rebuild Jerusalem's walls? 6I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. Ok here is Nehemiah chapter 1 says, 1The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislevin the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa. They played trumpets, cymbals, and harps and sang to Jehovah. Nothing else would qualify. He organized them into two groups of singers. 6In it was written, It is reported among the nationsand Geshem also says itthat you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall; and according to this report you wish to become their king. Dorothy Resig Willette is the former Managing Editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. 8Next to them Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs. My biggest problem with the article is your third supposition, quoted below: The third key to interpretation of the prophecy is to understand the time period meant by the Hebrew word weeks (BHS, Strongs OT: 7620) in verse 25. The waw would have been more accurately translated as a hendiadys where the 2nd word specifies the first. Sign up to receive our email newsletter and never miss an update. Ezra and Nehemiah, and the wall built during their time, have nothing to do with Daniel 9. Upon arrival into the city, he assessed the damage and got to work. I found the picture on their website under the caption A prophet or Nehemiah west facade, south portal, right side, mid-12th c. Location: St. Lazare, Avallon, France. 4When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven. Each of them has a name and a biblical story. Studying them will reveal something about getting close God. The word used in Daniyel is shavuim, while the word for weeks is shavuot. 2. Thanks for the article. Will you please drop me a mail? The governors of surrounding territories viciously oppose Nehemiah's efforts, but the wall is finished in just 52 days ( Neh 7:15 ). After the wall was built, Nehemiah ensured that the people were read God's Law, and they understood it. Zechariah 1:12 Then the angel of YHWH answered and said, O YHWH of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? 30After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. Will they sacrifice? Neamiah returned to king Darius when he finished building the walls. The world of the Bible is knowable. Amazing issues here. When to fight? Photo printing devices nowadays are manufactured in different sizes May God bless your search. He wanted them to know what standards he and they would live by. Jesus is "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" ( John 1:29 ). Cyruss decree which started contruction of the temple. You don't have to rebuild a wall to do the will of God. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh 26and the temple servants living on Ophel made repairs up to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower. Dig into the illuminating world of the Bible with a BAS All-Access membership. If you count the years backwards you will find the 70 years of divine anger began at the departure of the Shekinah from the temple as described in Ezekiel. In 100 years people had been trying to rebuild these walls and they couldn't get it done. And it could not (as Josephus says) be Khshayarsha, who only reign 20 years. It took Nehemiah 52 days to reinforce the gaps and rebuild the wall. Thus may they be shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised the Lord. Just shows to go you that, just because a guy pulls up his sleeves, and is the first one to jump in and work, it sometimes doesnt mean what it appears to mean. However, there is a world of difference between an artists own title to his work and the labeling of a picture hundreds of years later without any proof of the artists original intention. Nehemiah is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period.He was governor of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia (465-424 BC). How difficult is it to build a wall? A race of slaves emerge from slavery to become a nation. http://kofh2u.tripod.com/kofh/. This was definitely accomplished with God's help. 2And the men of Jericho built next to him. im so interested with 12 gates of jerusalem. 17Moreover, there were at my table one hundred and fifty people, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations around us. . In 1535, when Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman I ordered the ruined city walls to be rebuilt . COPYRIGHT 2023 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY 5614 Connecticut Ave NW #343, Washington DC 20015-2604. Nehemiah decides that the fortifications have to be rebuilt. Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, current or in historical records of the past almost one thousand years, is there any reference to Nehemiah! 12 gates in that map is still remain today? And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me. The Finklestein chronology, which dismisses the biblical record almost entirely, is also incorrect.Dan Bruce, The Prophecy Society. Then Nehemiah asked Ezra to read the Law of Moses to the people. As the Bible describes it, he was so driven to erect that barrier to protect the Jews from their enemies that he motivated a crew to work nonstop. 24After him Binnui son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the Angle and to the corner. Nehemiah in Hebrew means: Jah is comfort. It would mean they would have to admit the redactions. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.. None of the Persian-era decrees fit the text of Daniel 9. Nehemiah built a spiritual wall for their covenant with God relationship presence help in time of trouble. Nehemiah's willingness to sacrifice for the benefit of others Thats too big a price to pay. The wall completed: 6:15-19. 3The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. They were allowed to return to Israel to rebuild their nation. YHWHs house is the heart of Jerusalem, without its completion nothing else matters. A link to the Universal (as it is now called) can demonstrate ALL the genealogy on the book of Genesis, using that demo as part of the theory verification: 14Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. In the twelfth chapter, the word days was used to indicate Day(s) of Atonement. (B) Nehemiah and the people rebuilt 10 city gates. Now the king had sent officers of the army and cavalry with me. Respectfully, Nathaniel, you are incorrect in your interpretation. Then they said, Let us start building! So they committed themselves to the common good. ALIGN YOURSELF WITH GOD. Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbishand burnt ones at that? 3Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, That stone wall they are buildingany fox going up on it would break it down! 4Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their taunt back on their own heads, and give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. 14Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate; he rebuilt it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. Despite the free time, which is a rarity in my life, beautiful breezy weather and a book I cant stop reading, my mood was, lets put it nicely, stormy. Really consider the words below. It is in Hebrew , Nemyh, "Yah comforts". The only decree that does fit, and fit exactly using all of the biblical text, is the decree issued by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE that was recorded by Josephus as mentioned above. 5I said, O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments; 6let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for your servants the people of Israel, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Sometime during the next 16 years (between 1st year of Cyrus & 2nd year of Darius Hystaspes) construction of the 2nd temple stopped. A wall built for Gods Glory Nehemiah depicts the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. The prophecy fits his advent exactly. This event symbolically and chronologically marked the end of the 70 years of Jerusalems desolation. Nehemiah and his followers do what seems to be the impossible because they are doing what God has called them to do. . Verse 25 states the following: Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah.. 2For there were those who said, With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive. 3There were also those who said, We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine. 4And there were those who said, We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the kings tax. In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the capital, 2one of my brothers, Hanani, came with certain men from Judah; and I asked them about the Jews that survived, those who had escaped the captivity, and about Jerusalem. I do not see a reference to Yom Kippur in these verses. The caption reads Nehemiah/Photo: Foto Marburg/Art Resource, NY. Being a representative of the king to rebuild jerusalem was such a great feat that he would not have time for a family either. Thats 12 years later than what ppl think!! The third edition of the Biblical Archaeology Societys widely-acclaimed Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Destruction of the Temple serves as an authoritative history of ancient Israel. So take 492BCE in Jeremiahs prophecy on the 490 years and until messiah the prince, whats that put us at? In the past 2000 years, no one else has. Of course, no artist can claim knowledge of what any biblical character looked like. 11:18-19; 1Chron. [52 days] What did Nehemiah do after rebuilding the walls? Daniyel 9 has nothing to do with Yeshu, the Roman fabrication. Thats too big a price to pay, and unnecessary. Kind of like a pervert pedophile looking for a job with the boys choir or the boy scouts, I guess. Of all of the English translations of Daniel 9:25, Youngs Literal Translation is perhaps the best (but still imperfect), saying And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader [is] seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. A good fulfillment paraphrase of verse 25, substituting real events and real names from history for the biblical language, would read something like this: Observe with your eyes and calculate with your mind, that after the issuance of the decree by Julius Caesar to Hyrcanus II, high priest and ethnarch (the anointed one-prince) of the Jews, restoring him to rule in Jerusalem (the first restoration) and granting him permission to rebuild its fortifications, until his repatriation from Parthia to Jerusalem by Herod (the second restoration), there will be seven Pentecosts, followed by sixty-two Pentecosts. They are appropriate here again: Ezra 6:14 14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. Tonyagonna have to chew on this for awhile! 6So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. The early Messianic expectants would have understood the verse to mean: according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, -even- Artaxerxes. The burden-bearers carried their loads in such a way that each laboured on the work with one hand and with the other held a weapon. Ok kislev is November, and notice it says the 20th year of the king? of Ancient Kingdoms Amended). 16From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and body-armour; and the leaders posted themselves behind the whole house of Judah, 17who were building the wall. After them Azariah son of Maaseiah son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house. Not only did he trust God to bless his efforts, he physically did his part to complete the project. 1st century BCE Jewish messianic expectants considered the prophecy so important that today over 2000 years later we have a Rabbinic chronology which leaves out over 120 year of Persian chronology. Will they finish it in a day? .but I remind you that that is not what God said through the prophet Daniel in verse 25. Will they restore things? Notes And Next Steps Nehemiah 3 + Part 4 of the series "Nehemiah: Rise & Build" The Sheep Gate (3:1). Before the seven Pentecosts begin, the tower gate with its broad place and the wall with its trench in front that were destroyed by Pompey in 63 BCE will have been rebuilt (from my book Lifting the Veil on the Book of Daniel, page 92, or see full discussion at http://www.prophecysociety.org/books/LV2012/LV-091.html ). There is a way to solve these problems but they do not wish to handle it that way. 16And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem; for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. Since 1954, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes has been challenging coaches and athletes to use the powerful medium of athletics to impact the world for Jesus Christ, reaching millions worldwide. Israel became a nation 69 years ago!! 14Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the Kings Pool; but there was no place for the animal I was riding to continue. How did Nehemiah rebuild the walls? Nehemiah 1:2-4 & 6:15-16. Nehemiah's Wall & Gates were finished in 52 days on Elul 25; which holds the mysteries of the 12 levels of Consciousness through the restored gates of the soul and its cycle. * See Aaron Demsky, Who Returned FirstEzra or Nehemiah? Bible Review, April 1996. to quickly repair the breaches in the wall, Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Destruction of the Temple, http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/80353228.jpg, http://www.prophecysociety.org/books/LV2012/LV-091.html. Truth of the matter is we will NEVER know all the facts and truths in this life..only the next. A conquered people emerge from horrific suffering to reform their nation with the sanction of the conqueror to even rebuild their walls. It took Nehemiah 52 days to reinforce the gaps and rebuild the wall. But thats not when he built the walls, its only when he inspected it for 3 days!! Nothing symbolically or literally even comes close to this command by YHWH, a command which was witness by both Haggai and Zechariah. After hearing about the sad state of affairs in Judah, Nehemiah acquired the kings permission to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the city and its fortifications. 7But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the gaps were beginning to be closed, they were very angry, 8and all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. What does the wall represent in Nehemiah? Also, where do you get the following statement from? 5Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from your sight; for they have hurled insults in the face of the builders. He asked the king for permission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem & was sent from Susa the Persian capital as Governor in 445 BC. . It was God's work and He protected His people and they completed the wall in 52 days. From the coming forth means the times were set at the finish. Write "The people wanted to work!". The prophecy says..Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand,that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Princeshall beseven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. In the eighth chapter of Daniel, the phrase evening-morning(s) was used to indicate Passovers. If you are talking about Daniel 8:14, I do not see anything about Pesach. 5In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand. I dont think the prophecy of Daniel 9 gets the attention it deserves in regards to the influence it has had on Biblical and secular chronology. Nehemiah 4-6. Photo: Foto Marburg/Art Resource, NY. as the provincial governor of Judah/Yehud. The book of Nehemiah, named after Nehemiah is the memoir, of building the walls of Jerusalem and of setting up the Jewish community in Jerusalem. Building the temple of Jerusalem is in fact building Jerusalem. Read Did I Find King Davids Palace? by Eilat Mazar as it appeared in the September/October 2012 issue of BAR for free in Bible History Daily. 1In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was served to him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. 20After him Baruch son of Zabbai repaired another section from the Angle to the door of the house of the high priest Eliashib. The prince (lowercase p) is not Jesus Christ. As a mentor to others you aspire to be leaders in their community, I have referred to Nehemiahs strategic approach to reforming the hopes and aspirations of a people and nation many times. The workers built the walls in only 52 days. Daniel 9 did two things. 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. 23After them Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs opposite their house. Nehemiah Chapter 3 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel. Israel is Gods earthly time clock. Ezra insisted upon the dismissal of these wives. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God. It made the city smaller than the original boundaries. The book of Nehemiah records the rebuilding of Jerusalem's city wall in about 445BC. Chapter 6 says this, 6:15So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days. And the Old Testament book of Nehemiah records how Nehemiah completed that massive project in record time just 52 days. We will do as you say. And I called the priests, and made them take an oath to do as they had promised. Back to Nehemiah When a mother walks into our care, there is a sense of urgency: a baby is coming and I can only stay so long. These are just chronological events which take place after the first 7 sevens. Israel is not serving God as of now and so time is not calculated because of that.
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