Nineveh is Destroyed

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Nineveh is Destroyed

Date: Feb. 27, 2022

Passage

Nahum 2:1-13 (ESV)

1   The scatterer has come up against you.
    Man the ramparts;
    watch the road;
  dress for battle;
    collect all your strength.
2   For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob
    as the majesty of Israel,
  for plunderers have plundered them
    and ruined their branches.
3   The shield of his mighty men is red;
    his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.
  The chariots come with flashing metal
    on the day he musters them;
    the cypress spears are brandished.
4   The chariots race madly through the streets;
    they rush to and fro through the squares;
  they gleam like torches;
    they dart like lightning.
5   He remembers his officers;
    they stumble as they go,
  they hasten to the wall;
    the siege tower is set up.
6   The river gates are opened;
    the palace melts away;
7   its mistress is stripped; she is carried off,
    her slave girls lamenting,
  moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.
8   Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters run away.
  “Halt! Halt!” they cry,
    but none turns back.
9   Plunder the silver,
    plunder the gold!
  There is no end of the treasure
    or of the wealth of all precious things.
10   Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
    Hearts melt and knees tremble;
  anguish is in all loins;
    all faces grow pale!
11   Where is the lions’ den,
    the feeding place of the young lions,
  where the lion and lioness went,
    where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
12   The lion tore enough for his cubs
    and strangled prey for his lionesses;
  he filled his caves with prey
    and his dens with torn flesh.

13 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 2:13

Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.

Assyria was a very powerful and much feared empire. Nineveh was its capital. They were proud and haughty, thinking no one could come against them. They believed they were invincible. But no one and nothing is invincible against the Lord. As the Lord sent Assyria to judge Israel’s sin, the Lord sent Babylon to judge Nineveh’s sin. These verses describe what was going to happen to Nineveh. The attack would be brutal and overwhelming. They would be looted, plundered, and defeated. The Lord would be merciless to them. No amount of shouting, “Stop! Stop!” would slow the tide of the Babylonian army (8). The mighty and brave Ninevites would turn fearful.

Why would this happen? The Lord was against the city of Nineveh. “‘I am against you’ declares the Lord Almighty” (13). They had once been so sinful, the Lord sent his prophet Jonah to prophecy their destruction, but the Lord relented when they repented. This time, there would be no repentance. The sword of the Lord would devour them, leaving them too weak to be a threat to anyone. The Lord is the judge of all the earth. He will come again to judge all the earth. We should be ready!

Prayer: Prayer: Almighty Heavenly Father, you are the judge of the earth. We know that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead. Instill in us a holy fear of you and help us to repent.

One Word: One Word: God will come again as Judge!

The Lamb Will Triumph

Revelation 17:1-18

Key Verse: 17:14

They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”

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