Nehemiah 3 Part I – What do you expect to see at the east gate?

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the Bible teaches about planning. Studying through Nehemiah this message focuses on Nehemiah 3, the east gate.

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Nehemiah 3:29-30 ( KJV ) ²⁹After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.  ³⁰After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

Ezekiel 43:1-3 ( KJV ) ¹Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:  ²And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.  ³And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

Ezekiel 44:1-3 ( KJV ) ¹Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.  ²Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.  ³It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

Zechariah 14:1-6 ( KJV ) ¹Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.  ²For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.  ³Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.  ⁴And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.  ⁵And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.  ⁶And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

Matthew 24:1-42 ( KJV ) ¹And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.  ²And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.  ³And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? ⁴And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.  ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.  ⁶And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  ⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.  ⁸All these are the beginning of sorrows.  ⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.  ¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.  ¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.  ¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.  ¹³But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.  ¹⁵When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)  ¹⁶Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:  ¹⁷Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:  ¹⁸Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.  ¹⁹And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!  ²⁰But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:  ²¹For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.  ²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.  ²³Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.  ²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.  ²⁵Behold, I have told you before.  ²⁶Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.  ²⁷For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  ²⁸For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.  ²⁹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:  ³⁰And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  ³¹And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ³²Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:  ³³So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.  ³⁴Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.  ³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.  ³⁶But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.  ³⁷But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  ³⁸For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,  ³⁹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  ⁴⁰Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  ⁴¹Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  ⁴²Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Malachi 4:1-3 ( KJV ) ¹For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.  ²But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.  ³And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

Revelation 22:16 ( KJV ) ¹⁶I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

Isaiah 45:4 ( KJV ) ⁴For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

1 Chronicles 16:13 ( KJV ) ¹³O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Revelation 19:11-21 ( KJV ) ¹¹And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.  ¹²His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.  ¹³And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.  ¹⁴And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.  ¹⁵And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.  ¹⁶And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.  ¹⁷And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;  ¹⁸That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.  ¹⁹And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.  ²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.  ²¹And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ( KJV ) ¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.  ¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  ¹⁶For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  ¹⁷Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  ¹⁸Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-10 ( KJV ) ⁶Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;  ⁷And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,  ⁸In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:  ⁹Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;  ¹⁰When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Romans 1:18-23 ( KJV ) ¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; ¹⁹Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.  ²⁰For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:  ²¹Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  ²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,  ²³And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.