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Daniel Raphael Silverstein expounds on the month of Nisan

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Interesting to note God set into motion the events to restore the walls in the month of Nisan.

"In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence." (Neh 2:1)

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