PT-1 “The God of Inevitable Vengeance” (Nahum 2:2-3a)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/15/2025 8:55 AM

My Worship Time                                              Focus: PT-1 “The God of Inevitable Vengeance”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                Reference:  Nahum 1:2-3a

            Message of the verses: 

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A jealous and avenging God is Yahweh

Yahweh is avenging and wrathful.

Yahweh is avenging against His adversaries,

And He keeps His anger For His enemies.

Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power,

And Yahweh will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.

“2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. 3  The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked:” (KJV)

            This morning I begin a new section from the commentary of John MacArthur, the references that I am using to help us understand what is in the book of Nahum.  MacArthur, who is now with the Lord worked on some Old Testament commentaries shortly before his promotion to heaven earlier this year and this is one of them along with Jonah which we just finished a few weeks ago.  I am thankful to the Lord for allowing John MacArthur to write these Old Testament commentaries so that I can use them in my Spiritual Diaries.  I am also very much thankful to the Lord that the Holy Spirit of God is spreading these Spiritual Diaries around the world for the cause of Jesus Christ.  I look at the early part of the book of Genesis where Moses writes about how God changed the languages at the tower of Bable and that was very early after God had created the earth, and early also after He flooded the earth, and the reason He changed the languages was because if mankind all spoke the same language then there was nothing that they could not accomplish, which most of it would be evil, and so now with modern technology one can write in the English language and then put what is written onto the internet and people then will be able to read it in their own language, or perhaps even listen to it using AI listen to it in their own language as perhaps many of you are doing.  I want to use this technology in order to glorify my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but unfortunately others use it for evil.

            John MacArthur begins this section by writing “Nahum’s prophecy began in the form of an acrostic, in which letters form the Hebrew alphabet introduces the various poetic stanzas (For more on Nahum’s use of this rhetorical structure, see the discussion on verse 8.)” This is something we will do when we get to verse eight.”  “Each of these stanzas depicted Yahweh’s holy justice, beginning with the declaration that God is jealous.  While the term ‘jealous’ can denote sinful envy, when applied to God it refers to His righteous zeal, His strong desire to protect that which is rightfully His.  As a husband is justly jealous for his wife (Prov. 6:34; Song *:6; cf Num. 5:11-31), so God is jealous for his people and unwilling to tolerate any form of spiritual adultery (cf. Exodus 20:5; Deut. 4:24).  The Lord is characterized by a holy zeal for His own, to the extent that His very name is Jealous (Ex. 34:14).  God’s fervent affection for His people motivates His hand of discipline in response to their disobedience and also prompts His hand of grace to restore and protect them (cf. Joel 2:18).  The Ninevites, like so many godless and wicked adversaries (cf. Ps. 2:1-3; 10:1-6; 94:7), assumed they could severely mistreat God’s people without suffering any consequences.  However, Nahum declared that Yahweh was neither passive nor apathetic.  The Lord was zealous for Israel and would not overlook the wickedness enacted against them (cf. Deut. 6:15).”  Now there is a lot of verse references in this paragraph we just looked at and I have chosen not to look up all of them, but leave it to you if you desire to do so.

Spiritual Meaning for My Life Today:  I am thankful that my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ took all of the punishment for my sins, and not only for mine, but for everyone.  I am also thankful that the Lord loves me so much that He will not leave me the way I was when He saved me on the 26^th of January 1974, but continues to cause me to grow in grace as I live my life on planet earth awaiting the return of the Lord to take all of His Church to heaven in the Rapture of the church, the great HOPE for believers.

My Steps of Faith for Today: Trusting the Lord to get us to my wife’s appointment this morning without any problems with my bowel issues.

12/15/2025 9:12 AM