What House Will You Build Me?: Nine

Rebuilding the Walls and Gates of Jerusalem
When Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem he found that the walls were broken and the gates of the city had been burned up.
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. (Nehemiah 2:13)
Nehemiah "arose in the night" to observe the city of God. He was in the city of Jerusalem three days (2:11). The first two days we understand to be typical of the two thousand years of the Christian Era. The "third day" typifies the Millennial Jubilee, the thousand-year Kingdom Age.
The Body of Christ will be perfected during the "third day" (Luke 13:32; Hosea 6:2).
The fact that Nehemiah "arose in the night" (2:11,13) suggests to us that Christ will rebuild the defenses of His Church during the dark hours just prior to the glorious Day of His appearing. The light of God will arise on the church—and even now is arising—as gross darkness begins to cover the nations of the earth (Isaiah 60:2).
God had put it into the heart of Nehemiah to rebuild the city of Jerusalem just as God has put it into the heart of many today to build the Body of Christ.
The first thing Nehemiah came to was the "dragon well." As soon as the Church of Christ becomes serious about rebuilding the defenses against sin, the "dragon" will be "seen in heaven" (Revelation 12:3). When the "woman," the Church, travails in birth to bring forth the "male Son," which is Christ in the saints, the ancient dragon will appear.