SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/18/2025 9:56
AM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1
“The God of Irresistible Power”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Nahum
1:3b-6
Message
of the verses:
BETH
In
whirlwind and storm is His way,
And
clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
GIMEL
He rebukes
the sea and makes it dry’
He
dries up all the rivers.
Bashan
and Carmel languish;
The
blossoms of Lebanon languish.
HE
Mountains
quake because of Him,
VAV
And the
hills melt;
Indeed
the earth is upheaved by His presence,
The
world and all the inhabitants in it.
HETH
“His
wrath is poured out like fire,
And the
rocks are torn down by Him. (1:3b-6)
“in the
whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuked the sea, and maketh it dry, and dried
up all the rivers: Bashan languished, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languished.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the
hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all
that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand
before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his
fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.” (KJV) (Nahum
1:3b-6)
This morning I begin the next section in John
MacArthur’s commentary on Nahum by looking at 1:3b-6, and as you can see I have
quoted it from two different versions of the Bible, and I believe that
MacArthur is using a version similar to the NASB, and then after that I have
quoted the verses from the KJV. Now it
is my desire to take my time going through this as I have been lately taking
the time to quote most of the verses in MacArthur’s commentary as I go through
his commentary, so let’s begin by quoting MacArthur’s commentary.
“Having described the vengeance and
fury of God, Nahum proclaimed the power of God that carries out His
judgment. The prophet declared that even
the sky stands at the Lord’s disposal to execute His wrath. He explained that in the whirlwind and
storm is His way, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet. The whirlwind refers to the
violence of a tornado, blowing away anything in its path (cf. Job 21:18).” “18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as
chaff that the storm carries away.” “Additionally,
the storm describes a fierce downpour or tempest (cf. Job 9:17).” “17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplies
my wounds without cause.” “Together,
these terms depict God’s comprehensive judgment in the form of a massive
assault, so that whatever escapes being blown away by the whirlwind is
overwhelmed by this storm (cf. Job 27:20-21; Ps. 83:15; Isa. 29:6; 66:15-16;
Amos 1:14).”
“20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest
steals him away in the night. 21 The
east wind carries him away, and he departed: and as a storm hurled him out of
his place.”
“15 So persecute them with thy tempest and make
them afraid with thy storm.”
6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts
with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and
the flame of devouring fire.”
“15 ¶ For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and
with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his
rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by
fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the
LORD shall be many.”
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of
Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of
battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:”
“Such is His way in judgment,
as Yahweh stirs up the weather to bring calamity and destruction under His
controlling hand (cf. Job 38:1; and Exodus 19:9; 16, Ps. 83:15; Isa. 29:6).
1 ¶ Then the LORD answered Job out of the
whirlwind, and said,”
“9 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto
thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and
believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.”
“16 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day in the
morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the
mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that
was in the camp trembled.”
“15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make
them afraid with thy storm.”
“6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts
with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and
the flame of devouring fire.”
“Nahum also wrote that the clouds are the dust
beneath His feet (cf. Exodus 16:10; Psalm 99:5; 110:1; 132:7; Isa. 66:1;
Lam. 2:1; Ezek. 1:4; Dan. 7:13).”
“10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the
whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the
wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.”
“5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his
footstool; for he is holy.”
1 ¶ «A Psalm of David.» The LORD said unto my
Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.”
“7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will
worship at his footstool.”
“1 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my
throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye
build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?”
1 ¶ How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion
with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the
beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!”
“4 ¶ And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came
out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was
about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst
of the fire.”
“13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one
like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of
days, and they brought him near before him.”
“God can employ the weather to manifest His might presence,
demonstrating that He is far more destructive than any horse, chariot, or
man-made war machine. In His vengeance
against Nineveh, the Lord declared that He would use even the elements of the
heavens to bring down wrath upon the city (cf. Ps. 29:3, 7; 102:26-27; Rev.
6:12).”
“3 The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters:
the God of glory thundered: the LORD [is] upon many waters.”
“7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of
fire.”
“26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endures yea,
all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them,
and they shall be changed: 27 But thou art
the same, and thy years shall have no end.”
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth
seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: As I have kind of changed the way that I am
writing my Spiritual Diaries by adding most of the verses that are in the
commentary it shows me something that I have known for a long time, and that is
that the Bible is one book made up of 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament and 27
in the New Testament, yet nothing conflicts in the Word of God, and that shows
me that God is the author of the Word of God, using men with their own
personalities to write it, and that is something that I believe is very, very
special.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to do the things in
my life needed to bring glory to His Awesome Name.
12/18/2025
10:52 AM
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