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Doing a Great Work: Ezra and Nehemiah Simply Explained is unavailable, but you can change that!

The books of Ezra and Nehemiah continue the story of God's people after the exile in Babylon. The historical events recorded in them are important for us because they were all part of God's plan to prepare the way for the coming of the Savior and preserve a pure people for the setting up of Christ's kingdom. In an age of experience-centered worship and entertainment-oriented evangelism, these...

depended on the survival of the Jewish race. Our churches and our nation need Christians like Moses and Nehemiah who will ‘stand in the breach’ and supplicate God for his mercy (see Ps. 106:23). There is another link with an earlier period of Israel’s history at the beginning of verse eleven: ‘O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant’. This is similar to the petition of Solomon at the opening of the temple (2 Chron. 6:40). The prayers of both Ezra and Nehemiah reveal that
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