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Nahum

Fate Of the Nations vs The Fate Of God’s Faithful Remnant

Nahum’s fall of Israel is presented as an example that He won’t allow violent empires to endures forever.

God will bring down the violent and arrogant in every age.

Chapter 2

The Fall of Nineveh

Chapter 3 The Results Of Assyria’s Downfall

Nahum addresses the tragedy of violent oppression and human suffering in history.

God’s judgment on evil is good news.

God’s judgment on the Assyrians would have been an encouragement to the Israelites in the face of the terrifying power of the Assyrian Empire.

Between 663 and 654 BC

He preached during the reign of King Manasseh.

Manasseh didn’t change until the last six years of his reign. That means that Nahum preached during the darkest times of Judah’s history to that point.

King James Version Chapter 1

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!

King James Version Chapter 2

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,

And will watch to see what he will say unto me,

And what I shall answer when I am reproved.

2 And the LORD answered me, and said,

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,

That he may run that readeth it.

King James Version Chapter 2

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,

And will watch to see what he will say unto me,

And what I shall answer when I am reproved.

2 And the LORD answered me, and said,

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,

That he may run that readeth it.

King James Version Chapter 2

4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:

But the just shall live by his faith.

King James Version Chapter 2

15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,

That puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also,

That thou mayest look on their nakedness!

King James Version Chapter 3

2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid:

O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years,

In the midst of the years make known;

In wrath remember mercy.

King James Version Chapter 3

And there was the hiding of his power.

King James Version Chapter 3

Although the fig tree shall not blossom,

Neither shall fruit be in the vines;

The labour of the olive shall fail,

And the fields shall yield no meat;

The flock shall be cut off from the fold,

And there shall be no herd in the stalls:

18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD,

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

19 The LORD God is my strength,

And he will make my feet like hinds’ feet,

And he will make me to walk upon mine high places.