The Promise of Restoration
(Nehemiah 1:1–11)
“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, 1Ki 8:47-48Deu 30:15Deu 30:19Deu 4:29-30Deu 11:26-28Deu 29:28Deu 28:64Ezk 18:28 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, Jol 2:12-13Neh 1:9Deu 4:28-31Lam 3:401Jn 1:92Co 3:16Eph 6:24Isa 55:6-7 then He will restore you from captivity 1and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. Jer 29:14Ezk 36:24Psa 147:2Ezk 34:12-13Lam 3:32Zec 8:7-8Jer 32:37-44Lam 3:22 Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, 2 He will gather you and return you from there. 3 Neh 1:9Deu 28:64Ezk 39:25-29Isa 11:11-16Isa 43:6Zep 3:19-20
And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers. Jer 29:14 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live. Deu 10:16Ezk 36:26-27Jer 32:39Ezk 11:19-20Col 2:11Rom 2:28-29Jer 4:41Jn 5:3-4
Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you. Deu 7:15Lam 4:21-22Jer 51:24-26Ezk 25:12Isa 10:12Isa 14:1-27Num 24:14Amo 1:11 And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today. Eph 2:16Ezk 36:27Deu 30:2Ezk 11:19-20Ezk 37:24Isa 1:25-26Jer 31:33Jer 32:39-40 So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He delighted in that of your fathers, Deu 28:11-14Jer 32:41Deu 28:4Jer 33:9Deu 28:63Isa 65:19Jer 31:28Jhn 15:11 if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Lam 3:40-41Deu 4:29Deu 30:81Co 7:19Deu 30:2Isa 55:2-3Neh 1:9Act 26:20
The Choice of Life or Death
For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. Isa 45:19Psa 147:19-20Rom 16:25-26Col 1:26-27 It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven 4to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ Rom 10:6-8Pro 30:4Jhn 3:13 And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea 5to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ Act 10:22Act 10:33Act 16:9Act 8:27-40Jhn 6:27Mat 12:42Pro 16:6Pro 2:1-5 But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, 6 so that you may obey it. Rom 10:8-10Jer 12:2Jhn 5:46Mat 7:21Ezk 2:5Ezk 33:31Ezk 33:33Heb 2:1-3
See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster. Deu 11:26Deu 30:191Jn 5:11-12Deu 30:1Gal 3:13-14Deu 28:1-14Deu 32:47Mrk 16:16 For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. Mat 22:37-38Deu 30:61Jn 5:2-3Deu 6:5Jhn 14:211Co 7:19
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 2Ti 4:4Heb 3:12Pro 1:321Ki 11:21Sa 12:25Deu 17:17Deu 29:18-28Heb 12:25 I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. Deu 8:19-20Deu 4:26Isa 63:17-18Jos 23:15-16Deu 31:29
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, Deu 30:15Deu 11:26Psa 119:30Jos 24:15-22Pro 8:36Deu 30:1Luk 10:42Jer 32:39 and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” Jhn 11:25-26Deu 10:20Jhn 17:3Act 17:25Jhn 14:6Act 17:28Deu 10:12Deu 4:40