Hey, it is Shelby and CJ here.

Thank you for joining us day after day as we walk through God's Word together.

We're in the book of Nehemiah, chapters 7 through 9.

And Nehemiah is still rebuilding despite opposition.

What else is happening in the story as we pick up today, C.J.? Yeah, so Nehemiah 7 through 9, there's a lot that happens here. That's our favorite phrase on this podcast, and you just used it. A lot that happens in these chapters. Yeah, a lot going on in these chapters. So at the beginning of Nehemiah 7, Nehemiah puts a few people in charge, and he finds that list of the people who

returned that we read about in Ezra 2. And then in Nehemiah 8, Ezra stands up and he reads

the law of Moses before the people, and they weep, presumably because they recognize their guilt

and how they've fallen short and how that explains their current predicament, living in exile

and now having to return.

But Ezra urges them to celebrate all that the Lord has done.

So they reinstitute the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Tabernacles or what some Jews

still call Sukkot today.

And the Feast of Booth, if we remember from some of the episodes in the Torah, it was a time

to commemorate God's general provision during the agricultural calendar.

We learned about that in Deuteronomy 16.

And it was also a time to commemorate when Israel dwelt in booths and were provided for

during their wilderness wanderings and their sojourn.

And we learned about that in Leviticus 23.

So in this case, we're reminded

of the biblical themes of Exodus and God's faithfulness in the wilderness and how he's always

sustaining and upholding his people, which is obviously it's a perfect time to commemorate that

and reinstitute that sort of feast at this time, right? Yeah, it absolutely is. Okay, so what

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