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Nahum

Nahum. (3) Nahum 3:1-19. Nahum … our God reigns!. Recessional Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).

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Nahum

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  1. Nahum

  2. (3) Nahum 3:1-19

  3. Nahum … our God reigns! Recessional Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

  4. Nahum … our God reigns! • a pivotal event in global history • the beginning of the end • our God is a just God • he tells us why Nineveh will fall • language is colourful and chilling

  5. Nahum … our God reigns! • God drew a line in the sand • Nineveh overstepped the mark • they left God out of the equation • their brazen and brutal arrogance • God has blown the final whistle

  6. Nahum … our God reigns! • the fierceness of Nineveh (1-3) • the filthiness of Nineveh (4-7) • the folly of Nineveh (8-10) • the fear of Nineveh (11-13) • the fall of Nineveh (14-19)

  7. Nahum … our God reigns! • God misses absolutely nothing • God doesn’t bat on the back foot • life has no playback button • city was a hive of corruption (1) • Ninevites acted like animals

  8. Nahum … our God reigns! • a preview of the conflict (2-3) • a scene of horrendous carnage • why include this in the Bible? • it affirms that God is God • justice is done, and seen to be done

  9. Nahum … our God reigns! • God doesn’t have to explain himself • but … he spells it out clearly (4) • no one can say that God is vindictive • dancing in the dark with the devil • witchcraft is forbidden in Scripture • Nineveh in the dock, God is judge

  10. Nahum … our God reigns! • the tables are turned (5-6) • guilty of religious prostitution • God strips Nineveh of everything • exposed for who and what she is • sow to the wind, reap a whirlwind • she meets her Waterloo (7)

  11. Nahum … our God reigns! • God communicates with people (8-9) ‘Are you better than Thebes?’ Why should you be treated in a different way?

  12. Nahum … our God reigns! • ruins around Luxor or Karnak • city fell in 663 BC

  13. Nahum … our God reigns! • Assyria butchered the people (10) • they were 7th century BC thugs • they’ll drink same cup of terror (11) • a taste of their own medicine • their resistance is virtually nil (12) • like new figs shaken from a tree

  14. Nahum … our God reigns! • the soldiers have done a runner (13) • for Babylon it was a walkover • they were ‘a bunch of Nancy boys!’ • too late to plug the gaping hole (14) • army like a swarm of locusts (15) • Nineveh’s wealth disappears (16)

  15. Nahum … our God reigns! • city guards are like locusts (17) • fly away when the sun comes out • C T Studd … ‘chocolate soldiers’ • ‘Great Shepherd of the people’ (18) • only interested in Number One • the Good Shepherd is so different

  16. Nahum … our God reigns! • God dealt them a lethal blow (19) • no possibility of recovery • Nineveh is an archaeologist’s dream • no lament to mourn her passing • nations are delirious with joy • there is spontaneous applause

  17. Nahum … our God reigns! ‘The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind, exceedingly small.’ when God finally settles accounts, he settles them in full!

  18. Nahum … our God reigns! • Nineveh was a big fish in a small sea • her importance can’t be downplayed • Jonah and Nahum talk about her • Jonah: God’s incomprehensible mercy • Nahum: God’s unimaginable wrath

  19. Nahum … our God reigns! • Nineveh is no more … • Assyria is no more … • kingdoms rise and fall … • empires come and go … BUT

  20. Nahum … our God reigns! take-home message … our God goes on, for ever and ever!

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