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Pilgrims in exile

Néhémie 1:2–3 (NEG79)

2 Hanani, l'un de mes frères, et quelques hommes arrivèrent de Juda. Je les questionnai au sujet des Juifs réchappés qui étaient restés de la captivité, et au sujet de Jérusalem.

The theme of exile, so foundational to the work of Nehemiah, remains foundational in the New Testament dispensation. Peter terms his readers as exiles (1 Peter 1:1; 1 Peter 2:11), persons displaced into a hostile environment against their will and so strangers in a strange land. See also Hebrews 11:13–16; Philippians 3:20. Exiles long for the restoration of Paradise, when we shall live with God again in harmony restored (Revelation 21:3–4). More, New Testament exiles may be confident that the Lord God most certainly will gather his scattered people to Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1–5).