We started by taking a little about Nehemiah from last week, and how Nehemiah was so upset because Jerusalem' s wall was broken. Nehemiah 1 v 1-3 '1.The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev in the twentieth year as i was in Susa the capital, 2. that Hanani one of my brother, came with certain men from Judah. And i asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem 3. And they said to me, "the remnant there in the provence who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. the wall of Jeruaslem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire." ' Nehemiah had the opportunity to go back to Babylon, he had a great life there, yet he stayed in Jerusalem. He was motivated to pull everything back together.
We were talking about the water cycle and how the seas were the nations, the sun was the knowledge of God which was the son Jesus. The clouds (top left) were the clouds of witnesses, which were all the people from Hebrews 11 which is about faith, those people will be in the Kingdom. Hebrews 12 v 1 'Therefore since we are surounded by so great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.'
Then we went on to talk about Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel because it linked with the water cycle as we looked at the different nations and the timeline. We find out what Nebuchadnezzar is like as a person, in other books he is just known as King. In Daniel we get to see the personal side of him. Daniel chapter 4 was written by Nebuchadnezzar and we compared this to modern times, and it would just be like Saddam Hussein writing a book of the Bible (if he wasn't dead)
i couldn't really remember the rest of what we talked about, sorry.
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well we looked at the timeline and how everything fit in place - jon, i really like the book you bring in i think its really useful. We imagined what it would be like to be taken captive to Babylon - in our case, us dundonians were captured by the french and taken off to paris for a while, this famous city. and then years later the germans come along and take over, and say we can go back to our homeland (was this the medo-persians?). anyway, it was about a passage which 6days later i can't remember where it was but it was talking about when you go to that city, don't make yourself at home, don't get sucked into that world. it said to build your own homes and grow your own food. basically, keep doing your own thing, do what you know and don't follow everyone else.
we went onto the watercycle because in the book jon brings in, the nations were written at the bottom of the page were in the sea and we were reminding ourselves of what the water cycle means. remember - in the cycle, the sun = the Son! sun son, it's easy to remember.
oh- thats another thing! we looked at Nehemiah and how it was 90 years after... something happened. To do with Jerusalem. after it there was the rebuilding of the temple for about 80 years and 13 years later Nehemiah began to prophesy - I can't remember exactly but Nehemiah was away Jerusalem and was shocked when he found out Jerusalem had been wrecked. it was 90 years later and he'd just assumed everything was still going fine.
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