He casteth forth His ice like morsels: who can stand before His cold?
He sendeth out His word, and melteth them.

He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.' Surely as the people rejoiced on the day that the city was finished, they must have remembered the words of old Daniel the prophet, written whilst they were in captivity, a hundred years before this time.
For what had Daniel declared?
He had foretold that his nation should return from captivity, and that Jerusalem should be restored.
'The street shalt be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.' Nehemiah's work was evidently revealed to Daniel, and he was also told something about Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the other troublers of the Jews.
Then, says Daniel, as soon as the command goes forth to build Jerusalem, then can you begin to reckon the time to the coming of the Messiah, only a limited and stated time must then elapse before the Christ, the Saviour of Israel, shall appear (Dan.ix.

25).
No wonder then that the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off that day, as they thought of the good days that were coming.

The word of the living God had come true, the street was built, the wall was built, now they had only to wait for the fulfilment of the rest of the prophecy, for the coming of their own Messiah and King.
We should all like to have stood in Jerusalem on that joyous dedication day, and watched the glorious procession entering the temple on Mount Zion.

But we shall see one day a far grander procession than that.
The leader of that procession will ride on a white horse.