SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/22/2016
11:52 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The city is
Captured
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Nahum 2:5-10
Message of
the verses: “5 He remembers his nobles; They stumble in
their march, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up. 6 The gates of
the rivers are opened And the palace is dissolved. 7 It is fixed: She is
stripped, she is carried away, And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of
doves, Beating on their breasts. 8 Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, Now
they are fleeing; "Stop, stop," But no one turns back. 9 Plunder the
silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no limit to the treasure-Wealth from
every kind of desirable object. 10 She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and
waste! Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in the whole body
And all their faces are grown pale!”
5 The Assyrian king rallies his men, but they
stagger and stumble. They run to the ramparts to stem the tide, but it’s too
late. 6 Soldiers pour through the gates. The palace is demolished. 7 Soon it’s
all over: Nineveh stripped, Nineveh doomed, Maids and slaves moaning like
doves, beating their breasts. 8 Nineveh is a tub from which they’ve pulled the
plug. Cries go up, "Do something! Do something!" but it’s too late.
Nineveh’s soon empty—nothing. 9 Other cries come: "Plunder the silver!
Plunder the gold! A bonanza of plunder! Take everything you want!" 10 Doom!
Damnation! Desolation! Hearts sink, knees fold, stomachs retch, faces blanch
(Message).”
There are times when I like to look at the Message
to help me understand better what the verses are saying, and this is the case
for this section.
In the NASB the word he is used in verse five to
begin it, and in the Message they correctly call this “he” the Assyrian
king. The Assyrian king has plotted
against the Lord and his people as seen in 1:9 “9 Whatever you devise against the LORD,
He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice.” The king gets his best officers to stand at
the wall and they act as if they are drunk instead of marching like they were
trained to march.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “The Khoser River flowed through
the city, so the invaders damned it up and then released the water so that it
destroyed part of the wall and some of the buildings. It was a simple matter for the Medes and
Babylonians to enter the city and take control.
But they can’t take credit for the victory; it was decreed by God that
the city be destroyed and the inhabitants be killed or taken captive
(2:7). The invaders were but God
instruments to execute His will.” Now if
you look at the quote I put into our last SD on Nahum chapter two you will
understand what Dr. Wiersbe says at the end of his quote. The quote from yesterday’s came from a
message from John MacArthur made on the 3rd chapter of John verses
11-21.
The enemy soldiers lined up the prisoners and took
them to their land to become slaves for them and then the looted what they
found in the city of Nineveh which was a lot according to Nahum’s report in
this section.
Remember that God invented time, but He does not
wear a watch, for God will always do what He has decreed He will do but there
are times when we do not know when He will do what He says He will do.
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