"But after they had rest, they again did evil before You..." Neh (9:28)
It is amazing to me that just after 70 years of exile, the children of Israel were so settled in Babylon that only a small remnant chooses to return to Jerusalem, to build the house of God. Although God stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to make the proclamation, His own people refused to be moved.
Somehow there is something addictive about rest, not that the Lord wants us to be workaholics, but we need to be mobilised as God leads. It is when David stayed back at the time that kings go out to battle, that he got into trouble. Solomon had rest from all his enemies all around, but he went after many foreign women.
God deems it so important that the people of Israel who came to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel were listed twice in the Bible, in Ezra (2) and Neh (7). So let us be counted in this labor and fight to rebuild the tabernacle of David as in the days of old. Be encouraged!! The Lord is sending His prophets and His angels to aid us in the work...
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