Month: October 2025

8.  Slay Them

The adversaries swore to “slay them.”  The deaths were going to be multiple – all the workers.  Can an agenda be so ruthless as not to mind how many it slays?  Can killers be so callous as not to care about the rivers of tears they force to flow and the streams of blood that turn the vegetation red?  Can they be so deaf to the wails of the maimed and the agony of orphans and widows multiplied?  What creed or malice blinds them to the graves of all sizes that have overtaken worksites and farmlands?  Will they eliminate entire populations to achieve one evil goal?

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4.  Our Adversaries

What is after your brother could be after you, too.  It may be only a matter of time before you know it.  In our text, the objects of concern were “OUR adversaries,” not “MY adversaries.”  Not only the speaker was under threat; everybody was.  If anyone supposed that Nehemiah alone was the target, because he was the leader, they were tragically mistaken.

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And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

Nehemiah 4:11

1.  Direct and Indirect Attacks

Let’s imagine that you were working at a construction site, and a gang of men came to take away your tools or to seal off the place; they would thus have halted or permanently stopped your work.  Sometimes, that is what the enemy of our souls does to stop what we do – by directly attacking the project or the project materials.

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