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Making a Change
They separated themselves from the people.
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The people of the lands, or the neighboring people.
They clung to the Law.
They gathered among those who had understanding.
Making a change toward Christ:
Provisions of the Change
Whenever there is a spiritual change, there are provisions to that change.
We see here a few examples:
They entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law.
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The word used here as “curse” means curse, oath, or agreement.
In the OT times, when an agreement or an oath was made, a curse would also be pronounced should the oath be broken.
Another example is found in
Nehemiah doesn’t mention the particulars of the curse, but we can assume that the same ones mentioned in Lev. and Deut.
apply here as well.
They would not marry into other people groups.
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This wasn’t a racially motivated statement.
They didn’t think their “race” was better than those around them.
Here’s what one commentator said regarding this issue:
“Due to the list of the men of the Return and the natural probabilities of the case prove that the large proportion of the newcomers were males, who must have had difficulty in finding wives among their fellow-Jews.”
[Edwin Yamauchi, “Ezra”.
EBC, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1988) Excursus, 677.]
They would respect the Law by not abusing it.
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We see in that the people were abusing the Temple by abusing it.
When the Law was given to the people in Exodus, Moses never mentioned these abuses-buying the selling in the temple-but we see it in Jeremiah.
They made a pledge NOT to neglect God’s house.
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This was a command to take care of the Levites and the ministry work of the temple.
What are some of the “provisions of change” we observe as a Christian?
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