When Nehemiah came to Jerusalem, he found it pretty much the mess the Babylonians had left it seventy years before.
Before anything else could be done, the first need was to build. The walls, the gates, the homes built into the thick walls. Build it.
https://chalcedon.edu/blog/our-first-duty-to-build
This short message by Mark Rushdoony is a reminder that our first duty, too, is to “arise and build.” Look at all that’s been trashed! The Church–and that means all of us–needs to build families, neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and voluntary associations: all have been weakened in my own lifetime. Government by people who don’t much like us has sought to replace all these institutions.
We need to clean up the mess and rebuild.
There is a great Christian ministry called Wall Builders that does wonderful scholarly work on the original documents and letters of our Founders.