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Words of the Prophets – Isaiah

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“Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:  And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and He looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.  And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt Me and My vineyard.  What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?  And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:  And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant: and He looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.” Isaiah 5:1-7 (KJV)

A Finished Work

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“So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.” Nehemiah 6:15-16 (KJV)

The enemy had perceived that the Hebrews would fail in their work to restore and rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. For fifty two days they labored; and after their days of labor the wall is finished.

The enemy is down hearted “cast down”. By restoring this wall God was glorified. They were fulfilling the word of the LORD.

The enemy had even tried to stop the work, and had failed. We as people of God, Christians, need to realize that when God calls, God meets the needs; we are to follow Him in obedience due to love.

There is nothing like finishing job you have started.  There was another work that started and was finished; and that was the work or our salvation upon the cross of Calvary.  Jesus Himself said, “It is finished.” (John 19:30).  Therefore it was. It is.  It forever shall be finished.  Meaning God will take it to His expected end for all who believe Him.

May all the labors which we do be seen as the work that is “Wrought of our God”. May we attempt in faith those works that only God can do. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only power that saves. May we proclaim it; may we ever lift up the crucified, buried and risen Saviour.

Archaeology In Israel

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Digging to find hidden treasures was always a thing as a child I would always do.  Imagining that I could find some gold buried beneath the surface, and become wealthy overnight.  Now, is that a child’s fantasy or what.

There are people who dig in the earth, and find treasures.  Some of those treasures are not silver or gold, precious gems or metals,  but artifacts; jewells of history.  A woman by the name of Eilat Mazar, an archaeologist, has discovered the Wall of Nehemiah.  She has dated it using the Persian period pottery which was found under a tower of the wall.  Yet, there are some who do not believe that this is the Wall of Nehemiah, built around 445 B.C.  The Wall was discovered in Silwan, an area in the traditional Arab East Jerusalem.

She believes that she has also found the palace of King David from the period of about 1,000 B.C.

What I do not understand is why people want to place doubt upon the Scriptures as some of the colleagues of Eilat Mazar have done.  It tells in the article in Christianity Today, “Some archaeologists don’t believe that Jerusalem was a city of prominence during the time of David and Solomon, as described in the Bible.  One colleague called Mazar’s first discovery an ‘overblown claim'”.  You may read that report on the Christianity Today’s site.  The Bible will continue to be magnified by the discoveries of archaeology, and real science. 

It is on the Bible that we as followers of Jesus Christ can stand forever.  That is because, “Forever, O LORD, YOUR Word is setteled in heaven.”  Psalm 119:89 (NKJV).