1 A prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. The Lord’s Anger Against Nineveh
In the book of Jonah we see an angry prophet warning the Ninevites, they repent, and God has mercy on them. But that repentance is short lived, and now Nahum tells us what is going to happen to them. Jonah is the “shot across the bow”, a warning shot. They saw a man, brought to their shores in the belly of a fish. It caused them to repent, but it was superficial, like the seed that falls on rocky soil, springs up quickly and soon withers. In Jonah God asks if his anger is right, but in Nahum we see the Lord’s righteous anger.
2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his foes and vents his wrath against his enemies.
Our biggest problem is that to us a hundred years is a lifetime, whereas to God it is only a couple of hours. We are too quick to judge, too quick to want God’s wrath to fall on our enemies. On the other hand we also tend to think that since our God is love there never will be any wrath or any judgement. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 2Peter 3:4 Do not be deceived, Nahum is the word of God, the Lord is a jealous and avenging God.
3 The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.
No one can study US history and not realize our history is filled with those who are guilty. They will not go unpunished. The Civil war was a punishment to the South and to the entire nation for the guilt associated with slavery. Everyone should have repented, and I suppose when the South surrendered some did. But the KKK was formed shortly after that, and Jim Crow laws were written, and the hypocrisy of “Separate but equal” was put into law. There was explicit and implicit bias. Just because the Lord has been slow to anger does not mean He is going to leave the guilty unpunished.
His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
Right now it is like the old saying “when it rains it pours”. We are in the midst of a pandemic, both a health crisis and an economic crisis. We are also in the midst of climate change, record breaking heat waves, droughts, fires, floods, and hurricanes. In the middle of this whirlwind and storm we see the Black Lives Matter marching down the streets, clouds of dust from them. This is the Lord’s way, it is His version of “shock and awe”. He is great in power and He is overwhelming the spiritual forces of evil.
4 He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
The sea and rivers were the highways of commerce. Right now international trade is drying up, perhaps down 30 even 40%. Bashan and Carmel were the best pasture lands for the fattest cows. The US is the breadbasket of the world and yet we are experiencing a mega drought. Our fields are withering. Lebanon was famous for their cedars, they were fragrant and they were used to build the ships. All of this economic strength, agricultural strength and military strength is fading. Ronald Reagan called the US the “city on the hill”, the shining light to the rest of the world. That light is fading.
5 The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it. 6 Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.
There is a whole lot here. The rich and powerful build their homes in the mountains. These people are terrified. Their wealth is going to melt away and they know it. Their wealth is invested in the stock market which is now a sham, it is being propped up by the US Federal reserve printing seven trillion dollars and exchanging this for corporate debt. These companies will never be able to pay it off so at some point the US will “forgive this debt” meaning the taxpayers will one day wake up to realize they have been robbed. Meanwhile the rich are selling their investments to buy US treasuries and gold. These hills will also “melt away”. God is indignant at the insults and abuses His people have received. They have paid the same bus fare, yet they are forced to sit in the back of the bus or to give up their seat to others. God is angry at the deceitful way the banks robbed the people of their homes in the mortgage crisis. The government went along with it and then to add insult to injury made the taxpayers pay the criminals. Now God’s wrath will be poured out and it will be like fire. You can compare this current pandemic to a fire in which we run from one hotspot to another to put out the fire. Climate change will also become very real as apocalyptic fires will spread across the globe.
7 The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him, 8 but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.
The end of this age is likened to a flood similar to the time of Noah. That flood was an overwhelming flood. I know many try to dispute the Biblical record, but the geologic record is indisputable scientific evidence. At the bottom of the Black Sea there was a town, this is because during the last ice age sea level dropped and the Black Sea was cut off from the ocean, it was a lake. This town was destroyed in this overwhelming flood when the ice age ended. In addition to that we know that massive floods came down from the highest mountains at this time, from the Himalayas and from the Rockies. These floods were more than forty feet deep and swept across India and the United States. In addition we know of at least a hundred large species that went extinct at this time on all six continents. We also have evidence that one man saved eighteen species of domesticated animals alive in a boat. We also know that at this time a large meteorite hit the Indian Ocean creating a massive tsunami and sending a tremendous amount of water up into the Stratosphere as steam only to come back down all over the world as rain. That event was a warning to us that at the end of this age God would again make an end of this evil age with “an overwhelming flood”. Only this time the flood will be fire and not water.
9 Whatever they plot against the Lord he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Jonah told them they would be overthrown, they repented, but it was superficial. They don’t get another chance.
10 They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.
This is a good description of what we have seen in this pandemic. They have been entangled in thorns from the get go. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. Matt 13:22 The rulers decisions concerning this virus have been choked by the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of riches. There have been scientists in China that warned about this virus a year ago, they were silenced, even killed. There was a researcher at Harvard who sounded the warning in the US in January, he was ridiculed, mocked and insulted. Why? Because of the deceitfulness of riches. Quarantines are expensive, tests are expensive. Any action they took to contain the virus would have hurt trade, it would have hurt the economy. So the statements they made not to worry, or that these warnings they were hearing were ravings of unstable people, that was “their wine” and they were drunk on it, they actually believed it. Twitter and Facebook decided to censor the official POTUS accounts that they had. Within a week they had lost $51 billion in market cap. I don't care how rich you are, you can't afford to lose $51 billion in a week. I imagine they put on a brave face and the investors are paying close attention, but if they lose another $51 billion in the second week their is going to be some real panic. They are being consumed like dry stubble in a fire.
11 From you, Nineveh, has one come forth who plots evil against the Lord and devises wicked plans.
Yes, this “one” who plots evil refers to the Antichrist who will make a peace treaty with Israel. They have all kinds of wicked plans including the “mark of the beast”.
12 This is what the Lord says: “Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be destroyed and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.
We are seeing those who devised evil plans being exposed with documents being declassified. It is amazing at how numerous they are. Judges, officials, elected representatives, executives, CEOs, other countries, millions of spies, etc. The problem they have is everyone hates them. They rule by fear and intimidation. The things they say are incredibly stupid, so stupid that one by one reasonable people are forced to be repelled and disgusted by them. They have a lot of allies in this plan. But what we have is truth and love.
In the book of Jonah we see an angry prophet warning the Ninevites, they repent, and God has mercy on them. But that repentance is short lived, and now Nahum tells us what is going to happen to them. Jonah is the “shot across the bow”, a warning shot. They saw a man, brought to their shores in the belly of a fish. It caused them to repent, but it was superficial, like the seed that falls on rocky soil, springs up quickly and soon withers. In Jonah God asks if his anger is right, but in Nahum we see the Lord’s righteous anger.
2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his foes and vents his wrath against his enemies.
Our biggest problem is that to us a hundred years is a lifetime, whereas to God it is only a couple of hours. We are too quick to judge, too quick to want God’s wrath to fall on our enemies. On the other hand we also tend to think that since our God is love there never will be any wrath or any judgement. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 2Peter 3:4 Do not be deceived, Nahum is the word of God, the Lord is a jealous and avenging God.
3 The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.
No one can study US history and not realize our history is filled with those who are guilty. They will not go unpunished. The Civil war was a punishment to the South and to the entire nation for the guilt associated with slavery. Everyone should have repented, and I suppose when the South surrendered some did. But the KKK was formed shortly after that, and Jim Crow laws were written, and the hypocrisy of “Separate but equal” was put into law. There was explicit and implicit bias. Just because the Lord has been slow to anger does not mean He is going to leave the guilty unpunished.
His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
Right now it is like the old saying “when it rains it pours”. We are in the midst of a pandemic, both a health crisis and an economic crisis. We are also in the midst of climate change, record breaking heat waves, droughts, fires, floods, and hurricanes. In the middle of this whirlwind and storm we see the Black Lives Matter marching down the streets, clouds of dust from them. This is the Lord’s way, it is His version of “shock and awe”. He is great in power and He is overwhelming the spiritual forces of evil.
4 He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
The sea and rivers were the highways of commerce. Right now international trade is drying up, perhaps down 30 even 40%. Bashan and Carmel were the best pasture lands for the fattest cows. The US is the breadbasket of the world and yet we are experiencing a mega drought. Our fields are withering. Lebanon was famous for their cedars, they were fragrant and they were used to build the ships. All of this economic strength, agricultural strength and military strength is fading. Ronald Reagan called the US the “city on the hill”, the shining light to the rest of the world. That light is fading.
5 The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it. 6 Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.
There is a whole lot here. The rich and powerful build their homes in the mountains. These people are terrified. Their wealth is going to melt away and they know it. Their wealth is invested in the stock market which is now a sham, it is being propped up by the US Federal reserve printing seven trillion dollars and exchanging this for corporate debt. These companies will never be able to pay it off so at some point the US will “forgive this debt” meaning the taxpayers will one day wake up to realize they have been robbed. Meanwhile the rich are selling their investments to buy US treasuries and gold. These hills will also “melt away”. God is indignant at the insults and abuses His people have received. They have paid the same bus fare, yet they are forced to sit in the back of the bus or to give up their seat to others. God is angry at the deceitful way the banks robbed the people of their homes in the mortgage crisis. The government went along with it and then to add insult to injury made the taxpayers pay the criminals. Now God’s wrath will be poured out and it will be like fire. You can compare this current pandemic to a fire in which we run from one hotspot to another to put out the fire. Climate change will also become very real as apocalyptic fires will spread across the globe.
7 The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him, 8 but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.
The end of this age is likened to a flood similar to the time of Noah. That flood was an overwhelming flood. I know many try to dispute the Biblical record, but the geologic record is indisputable scientific evidence. At the bottom of the Black Sea there was a town, this is because during the last ice age sea level dropped and the Black Sea was cut off from the ocean, it was a lake. This town was destroyed in this overwhelming flood when the ice age ended. In addition to that we know that massive floods came down from the highest mountains at this time, from the Himalayas and from the Rockies. These floods were more than forty feet deep and swept across India and the United States. In addition we know of at least a hundred large species that went extinct at this time on all six continents. We also have evidence that one man saved eighteen species of domesticated animals alive in a boat. We also know that at this time a large meteorite hit the Indian Ocean creating a massive tsunami and sending a tremendous amount of water up into the Stratosphere as steam only to come back down all over the world as rain. That event was a warning to us that at the end of this age God would again make an end of this evil age with “an overwhelming flood”. Only this time the flood will be fire and not water.
9 Whatever they plot against the Lord he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Jonah told them they would be overthrown, they repented, but it was superficial. They don’t get another chance.
10 They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.
This is a good description of what we have seen in this pandemic. They have been entangled in thorns from the get go. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. Matt 13:22 The rulers decisions concerning this virus have been choked by the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of riches. There have been scientists in China that warned about this virus a year ago, they were silenced, even killed. There was a researcher at Harvard who sounded the warning in the US in January, he was ridiculed, mocked and insulted. Why? Because of the deceitfulness of riches. Quarantines are expensive, tests are expensive. Any action they took to contain the virus would have hurt trade, it would have hurt the economy. So the statements they made not to worry, or that these warnings they were hearing were ravings of unstable people, that was “their wine” and they were drunk on it, they actually believed it. Twitter and Facebook decided to censor the official POTUS accounts that they had. Within a week they had lost $51 billion in market cap. I don't care how rich you are, you can't afford to lose $51 billion in a week. I imagine they put on a brave face and the investors are paying close attention, but if they lose another $51 billion in the second week their is going to be some real panic. They are being consumed like dry stubble in a fire.
11 From you, Nineveh, has one come forth who plots evil against the Lord and devises wicked plans.
Yes, this “one” who plots evil refers to the Antichrist who will make a peace treaty with Israel. They have all kinds of wicked plans including the “mark of the beast”.
12 This is what the Lord says: “Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be destroyed and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.
We are seeing those who devised evil plans being exposed with documents being declassified. It is amazing at how numerous they are. Judges, officials, elected representatives, executives, CEOs, other countries, millions of spies, etc. The problem they have is everyone hates them. They rule by fear and intimidation. The things they say are incredibly stupid, so stupid that one by one reasonable people are forced to be repelled and disgusted by them. They have a lot of allies in this plan. But what we have is truth and love.