GRAGADAYJAH 1186
THE ENEMY DOES NOT QUIT
Yet through all this the work on the wall though slowed did not stop.
And when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem and the rest of the adversaries heard
that the wall was built and almost finished save for the doors upon the gates,
they changed their tact and asked for a peace meeting; for they said “Come let
us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.” But Nehemiah was
no fool and he perceived at once that they meant to do them harm. And so
Nehemiah responded to them and said, he could not stop the work he was doing to
go to have a meeting with them; but they persisted and sent four more sets of
messages; but Nehemiah refused to meet with them sending them the same reason
for refusal as before. Yet Sanballat sent a fifth message via a personal
servant who came with an open letter in his hand this time setting out formal grievous
accusations against the Jews. Is this not the way Satan always strategize,
trying one mode, then another and another from a slightly different tact each
time? But God is no fool and neither are those who put their trust in Him.
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