Nahum 3
Today's Passage: Nahum 3
Christ-Centered Exposition had this to say about Nahum 3: The time has come for Nineveh to face divine reckoning for its wickedness before the God of the universe. The Assyrians must face the reality of the God they ignored and denied when they subjugated and mistreated God’s people, Judah. The policies of Nineveh toward the nations, especially Israel and Judah, are coming back to haunt it.
As I was reading Nahum 3, I started to think of Jonah the prophet. The man who God told to go to Nineveh, but he declined because he was scared of them. After a series of events, Jonah went, and many people believed. It got me thinking: What happened? Many people in the nation turned to God, but now it is back to corruption.
Thankfully, the Christ-Centered Exposition explained this: God had declared divine judgment on the city more than a century before Nahum’s oracle against it (Jonah 3:4-10). But Nineveh’s repentance during the time of Jonah delayed the final judgment on the city until the time of Nahum. Blood will be spilled in a city of blood. Death is coming to the culture of death.
This made me realize two things:
1. God’s plans cannot be thwarted. Nineveh was going to experience judgment, but it was going to be on God’s timing.
2. Sin is serious. Nineveh was a wicked nation. They did horrible and horrendous things. But every sin is serious, and we are living in a time where sin is glorified in culture. May God help us to recognize the seriousness of sin, to flee from anything that might cause us to stumble, and to be lights in a dark world.
Written By: Brice Stockton
Christ-Centered Exposition had this to say about Nahum 3: The time has come for Nineveh to face divine reckoning for its wickedness before the God of the universe. The Assyrians must face the reality of the God they ignored and denied when they subjugated and mistreated God’s people, Judah. The policies of Nineveh toward the nations, especially Israel and Judah, are coming back to haunt it.
As I was reading Nahum 3, I started to think of Jonah the prophet. The man who God told to go to Nineveh, but he declined because he was scared of them. After a series of events, Jonah went, and many people believed. It got me thinking: What happened? Many people in the nation turned to God, but now it is back to corruption.
Thankfully, the Christ-Centered Exposition explained this: God had declared divine judgment on the city more than a century before Nahum’s oracle against it (Jonah 3:4-10). But Nineveh’s repentance during the time of Jonah delayed the final judgment on the city until the time of Nahum. Blood will be spilled in a city of blood. Death is coming to the culture of death.
This made me realize two things:
1. God’s plans cannot be thwarted. Nineveh was going to experience judgment, but it was going to be on God’s timing.
2. Sin is serious. Nineveh was a wicked nation. They did horrible and horrendous things. But every sin is serious, and we are living in a time where sin is glorified in culture. May God help us to recognize the seriousness of sin, to flee from anything that might cause us to stumble, and to be lights in a dark world.
Written By: Brice Stockton
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