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Nehemiah 9:30

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You were patient with them for many years. You warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. However, they wouldn’t listen. So you handed them over to the people in the surrounding nations.

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The king of Assyria took the Israelites to Assyria as captives. He put them in Halah, along the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Then the Lord spoke through his servants the prophets:

The Lord sent them prophets to bring them back to himself. The prophets warned them, but they wouldn’t listen.

“And now, our God, what can we say after all this? We have abandoned your commandments!

You gave them your good Spirit to teach them. You didn’t keep your manna to yourself. You gave them water to quench their thirst.

But they were defiant and rebelled against you. They threw your teachings over their shoulders and killed your prophets who warned them to turn back to you. They committed outrageous sins.

You warned them in order to bring them back to your teachings, but they became arrogant and would not obey your commandments. They sinned by not following your regulations. If anyone follows them, he will find life in them. But they gave you the cold shoulder, became impossible to deal with, and wouldn’t listen.

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

For 40 years I was disgusted with those people. So I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts continue to stray. They have not learned my ways.’

Who gave Jacob away as loot and handed Israel over to robbers? Wasn’t it the Lord, against whom we have sinned? They didn’t want to live his way. They didn’t obey his teachings.

For my name’s sake I’ll be patient. For my glory’s sake I’ll hold my anger back from you, rather than destroy you.

But they rebelled and offended his Holy Spirit. So he turned against them as their enemy; he fought against them.

“Even though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you, you haven’t listened or paid attention to them.

The Lord could no longer bear the wicked and detestable things you did. That is why your land has become something ruined, destroyed, and cursed. No one lives in that land today.

I have sent my servants the prophets to you again and again to tell you not to do these detestable things that I hate.

But you wouldn’t listen or pay attention. You wouldn’t turn from your wicked ways and wouldn’t stop burning incense as an offering to other gods.

From the time that your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again.

The Lord has accomplished what he had planned to do. He carried out the threat he announced long ago. He tore you down without any pity, ⌞Jerusalem⌟. He made your enemies gloat over you. He raised the weapons of your opponents.

We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, leaders, ancestors, and all the common people.

They made their hearts as hard as flint so that they couldn’t hear the Lord’s teachings, the words that the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord of Armies became very angry.

“When I called, they wouldn’t listen. So now when they call, I won’t listen, says the Lord of Armies.

Two men, named Eldad and Medad, had stayed in the camp. They were on the list with the other leaders but hadn’t gone with them to the tent. The Spirit came to rest on them, too, and they prophesied in the camp.

and he put up with them for about forty years in the desert.

The Jews, unable to agree among themselves, left after Paul had quoted this particular passage to them: “How well the Holy Spirit spoke to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah!

“How stubborn can you be? How can you be so heartless and disobedient? You’re just like your ancestors. They always opposed the Holy Spirit, and so do you!

Do you have contempt for God, who is very kind to you, puts up with you, and deals patiently with you? Don’t you realize that it is God’s kindness that is trying to lead you to him and change the way you think and act?

So they tried to find out what time or situation the Spirit of Christ kept referring to whenever he predicted Christ’s sufferings and the glory that would follow.

No prophecy ever originated from humans. Instead, it was given by the Holy Spirit as humans spoke under God’s direction.

The Lord isn’t slow to do what he promised, as some people think. Rather, he is patient for your sake. He doesn’t want to destroy anyone but wants all people to have an opportunity to turn to him and change the way they think and act.




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