Sunday, May 22, 2016

Nahum 1

"What do you conspire against the Lord?
He will make an utter end of it.
Affliction will not rise up a second time." v.9


Read chapter 1
Nahum is another minor prophet in our Bible and only appears in this book of the Bible, no where else.  Then name Nahum means comforter and signifies the comfort and despite the ten tribes going in to captivity the future vision was to comfort them.  Nineveh is the capitol of Assyria who had taken Israel into captivity.  The comfort was the to the people of of the northerner ten tribes because of the destruction of Nineveh that Jonah so wanted about 90 years prior.  So we see in this verse that they will not get second chance to repent like they did the first time with Jonah after his proclamation, "Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it" (Jonah 3:10).  Soon after this repentance they became worse than ever and their day of being in God's grace would soon come to an end; and this end is Nahum's words of this book.  So too in our time of absolute grace for the believers and the unbelievers we can be comforted to know that God's grace to the wicked will soon end and judgement will be given.  Don't think you can outwit the Lord.

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