May 31, 2023
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Reading along with us in Nahum? Here’s today’s reading:
Nahum 3 (NIV)
Woe to Nineveh
1 Woe to the city of blood,
full of lies,
full of plunder,
never without victims!
2 The crack of whips,
the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
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Nineveh seemed strong, powerful, wealthy, and successful to the world’s standard yet they had no place for God. The destruction of Nineveh was also a humbling so all could see we only have what God allows and if God sees fit to take that from us because we are using it for evil instead of His glory He can do that.
Nahum 3
Micah 7
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I have been there, done that, Gordon…so I feel your “pain”…
There is a statement in a reference that I have [ Teacher`s Commentary by Lawrence O. Richards] [ Nahum foretold accurately just how the great city would one day fall. How good that prophecy constantly shows the total trustworthiness of the Word of God.] Written between 667 and 655BC. It was written about 50 years before it`s destruction. According to this source it was a 3 month siege. Also it gives credit to the Bible Knowledge Commentary, which has an excellent chart on the Fulfillments of Nahum`s Prophecies and also listed in the Teacher`s Commentary. There is a whole listing of 12 prophecies which are enlighten which have been fulfilled in detail. God said He would and He did it. He is always faithful and true for He cannot lie. He is always true to His character.
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Assyria had left many victims and cruel treatment in it’s wake, but now the tables have turned. God is against them because He hates their evil. They think they are secure and cannot be defeated, but others as strong or stronger than them have fallen as well. A nation will come and defeat them and they will then experience a portion of what they have done to others. What a wise statement Jesus makes when He says, “do unto others as you would have them do to you.” Because as nice as it might be to be a top dog, once you face a topper one, they will have no reason to just give you back what you gave others. Jesus calls and enables us to be better than that….
Ninevah preps frantically for battle, but it is no use, and there will be no one to comfort them in their loss because of its blood, lies and robbery.
It shall come to pass that all who look upon you
Will flee from you, and say,
‘Nineveh is laid waste!
Who will bemoan her?’
Where shall I seek comforters for you?”
Nahum 3:11 & 1:10 redo….Thou also shalt be drunken.
A historian six centuries after the fall of Ninevah recorded the Assyrian king provided wine to his troops. Deserters from the Ninevite army told the enemy, who attacked that same night.
Chemical addiction is truly hard to overcome; some do it without God. Proverbs 20:1 advice and warning, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
As difficult as it is to overcome addiction, it is sometimes even more difficult to defeat sin addictions in our heart. Before I condemn Ninevah for drunkenness, it is best for me to remove the beam from my own eye, that is any besetting sin.
I Corinthians 20:13, we are never tempted above our ability to resist. Peace, gordy
Woe to Nineveh indeed. I like the last verse of chapter 3:
Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal.
All who hear the news about you clap their hands at you fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?
Noone will miss the most ruthless army the world had known to that point. And its capital city is reduced to two hills of sand near Mosul, Iraq to this day.
God’s destruction of Nineveh will be relentless, brutal, and final. Wickedness and cruetly towards people does not go unnoticed by the Lord.