Overview of the Book of Nahum
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- The overview of the week for this Sunday is the book of Nahum. The book of Nahum was written in the 7th century
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- BC. His name means consolation or the comfort of God and the theme of his prophecy is the doom of the city of Nineveh.
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- Some people have considered Nahum to be the sequel of the book of Jonah because if you remember the prophet
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- Jonah preached that God was going to overthrow this great city of Nineveh but the people repented at Jonah's preaching so that that judgment was really just delayed.
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- Eventually the people went back to their old ways in the city which was the capital of the
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- Assyrian Empire. It was destroyed in 612 BC and that is what
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- Nahum is prophesying. Okay so the book begins with these words in chapter 1 the burden against Nineveh.
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- The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkishite. God is jealous.
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- The Lord avenges. The Lord avenges and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
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- The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and he will not at all acquit the wicked.
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- So the Assyrians the thing to know about them is they were very very cruel like no other
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- Empire the world had ever seen up until that point. So the prophet
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- Nahum speaks about their judgment with great passion perhaps more than any other prophet in the scripture.
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- In verse 6 he speaks of God's indignation and fierce anger and many commentators have seen this prophecy as being applicable to really all nations that are violent and that oppress and how
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- God will not allow that to continue forever. Praise God. So in conclusion this dark prophecy is eased by the promise that God is on the side of the oppressed.
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- God is on the side of those who would humble themselves before him as we read in verse 7 of chapter 1.
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- The Lord is good a stronghold in the day of trouble and he knows those who trust in him.