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Welcome to this Daily PBJ devotional.
Read 2 Chronicles chapter 4 through chapter 6 verse 1 and Nahum 3
today. This devotional is about Nahum
chapter 3. Woe to the city of blood, full
of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. The crack of the
whip, the rumble of the wheel, Galloping horse and bouncing
chariot, Charging horsemen, flashing sword, Shining spear, heaps of
slain, Mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end, They stumble
over their dead, Because of the many harlotries of the harlot,
The seductive mistress of sorcery, Who betrays nations by her prostitution,
And clans by her witchcraft. Behold, I am against you, declares
the Lord of hosts. I will lift your skirts over
your face, I will show your nakedness to the nations, And your shame
to the kingdoms. I will pelt you with filth and
treat you with contempt. I will make a spectacle of you.
Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, Nineveh is
devastated. Who will grieve for her? Where
can I find comforters for you? Are you better than Thebes, stationed
by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea,
whose wall was the water? Kush and Egypt were her boundless
strength, Put and Libya were her allies. Yet she became an
exile, she went into captivity, her infants were dashed to pieces
at the head of every street, they cast lots for her dignitaries,
and all her nobles were bound in chains. you too will become
drunk. You will go into hiding and seek
refuge from the enemy. All your fortresses are fig trees,
with the first ripe figs. When shaken, they fall into the
mouth of the eater. Look at your troops. They're
like your women. The gates of your land are wide
open to your enemies. Fire consumes their bars. Draw
your water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Work
the clay and tread the mortar. Repair the brick kiln. There
the fire will devour you, the sword will cut you down, and
consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young
locust. Make yourself many like the swarming
locust. You have multiplied your merchants
more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land
and flies away. Your guards are like the swarming
locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts, that settle
on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly
away, and no one knows where. O King of Assyria, your shepherds
slumber, your officers sleep, your people are scattered on
the mountains, with no one to gather them. There is no healing
for your injury. Your wound is severe. All who
hear the news of you applaud your downfall. For who has not
experienced your constant cruelty? This is God's Word. As we've read already in Nahum
1 and 2, God's judgment on Nineveh was mostly due to their extreme
violence. Remember that God's law, which
is imprinted in our consciences and written in his word, is the
standard by which we are judged. It is impossible to keep the
law of God because of our sin natures, but that does not exempt
us from accountability to the Lord and judgment by the Lord
for breaking His laws. What our inability to keep God's
laws requires is God's grace. Christ secured that grace by
taking our penalty on the cross, and He forgives us by grace when
we trust in Christ's cross work for us. So the kings and people
of Nineveh were responsible before God and guilty before Him for
all the nations they attacked without cause, and the soldiers
and civilians who were killed by their military aggression.
Verse 1 here in Nahum 3 describes this city as the city of blood. Verses 2 and 3 vividly depict
their powerful armies. And verse 3b detailed the results
of their attacks. The NIV says this in Nahum chapter
3 verse 3. Many casualties, piles of dead,
bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses. That's
a pretty vivid description of a violent city. Verses 5 through
19 warn this wicked city and her king. You can see verse 18
for that. Of God's impending humiliation.
Again, that's verses 4 through 7. and the defeat of Nineveh. The prosperity that the Assyrians
enjoyed at that moment would be stripped from them like locusts
decimating a farm, as we saw in verses 16 and 17. Warfare
and tyranny run through the history of humanity. As civilization
has advanced, technology has improved our lives and, simultaneously,
made the killing and destruction of war more efficient and more
massive in its scale. We should consider how our country
wages war. Although we do not take over
countries and enslave them the way that the Assyrians did, In
my opinion, many American presidents are far too quick to drop bombs
on and send troops into other nations. Our leaders use military
might to advance their political agendas. In the process, they
have sacrificed too many American soldiers, too many soldiers from
foreign lands who were forced into service by their government
or merely wanted to defend their land against our invading armies. And of course, too many civilian
casualties have been lost due to American aggression. Passages
like this one in Nahum call world leaders to be careful about waging
war and to repent for wars that were and are unjust. As American
citizens, we should do what we can to hold our leaders accountable
for how recklessly and needlessly they wage war and provide weapons
of war to foreign governments. God is watching. If he held Nineveh
accountable for her unjust wars, for her cruelty, for the many
people that were killed by Nineveh, what will he do to us?
Nahum 3
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| Sermon ID | 123241828271552 |
| Duration | 07:32 |
| Date | |
| Category | Devotional |
| Bible Text | Nahum 3 |
| Language | English |
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