SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/16/2025 11:00
AM
My
Worship
Time Focus: PT-2 “The God of Inevitable
Vengeance”
Bible
Reading &
Meditation Reference: Nahum
1:2-3a
Message of the verses:
Aleph
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)
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The
LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes vengeance and is filled
with wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his foes and vents his wrath against
his enemies. |
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The
LORD is slow to anger but great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty
unpunished. (NIV) |
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This
morning has been kind of busy for me and so I think that I want to do this
Spiritual Diary by quoting from John
MacArthur’s commentary and then make some comments as I deem necessary. “Because
of God’s great jealousy for His people, Nahum unequivocally declared that an avenging
God is Yahweh.” Now let me just say that those who really don’t know
the attributes of God may have a difficult time understanding what Nahum is
saying here in these verses, but believe me what he is saying was prompted by
the Holy Spirit of God and it is all true.
MacArthur goes on, “Out of His righteous zeal, the Lord would exact
the precise punishment from the Ninevites that they deserved and that His
holiness demanded (cf. Deut. 32:41; Rom. 12:19; Heb. 10:30).” I will quote these verses in the order they
are mentioned and will use the NIV. |
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When
I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take
vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me. |
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19 |
Do
not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is
written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. |
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But
we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who
have faith and are saved. |
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MacArthur
goes on “The prophet repeated the word avenging three times in this
verse, assuring Israel that such retribution would be intense, inescapable,
and inevitable. Because Yahweh is
a covenant-keeping God who is loyal to His people (cf. Gen. 12:1-3), He would
be diligent to fulfill this vengeance against Israel’s enemies.” “1 Now
the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and
I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.” MacArthur
goes on to write: “To convey the
fulness of God’s vengeance, Nahum provided a threefold explanation of such
divine retribution. First Yahweh’s
vengeance would be intense as Yahweh is avenging and wrathful. The term wrathful describes hot
anger, one that explodes with destructive force (cf. Gen. 27:44; Deut. 9:19;
29:23).” “44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy
brother’s fury turn away;” “19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot 19 displeasure,
wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD
hearkened unto me at that time also. 23 And that the whole land thereof is
brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor
beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and
Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in
his wrath:” “Ezekiel
described such wrath in the following manner: 18 And it shall come to pass at the same time
when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that
my fury shall come up in my face. 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of
my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in
the land of Israel; 20 So that the
fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field,
and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are
upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall
fall to the ground. 21 And I will call
for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD:
every man’s sword shall be against his brother. 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence
and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the
many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great
hailstones, fire, and brimstone.” (Ezekiel 38:18-22). “As
Ezekiel revealed about the end of the age, the Lord’s wrath will destroy
animals, devastate mankind, collapse mountains, and shake the earth. Through Nahum, God promised to unleash
similar fury in His vengeance against Nineveh. The Hebrew term translated wrathful literally
states that Yahweh is the ‘master of wrath,’ sovereignly deploying divine
retribution in accordance with His justice.
God had warned Nineveh through Jonah that He would overthrow the city
if the people did not repent (Jonah 3:4).” “4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a
day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown.” “Subsequently, He
declared through Nahum that Nineveh was about to face overwhelming judgment,
much like that experienced by Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 18:20-21).” “20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom
and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21 I will go down now, and see whether they
have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and
if not, I will know.” Spiritual
Meaning for my Life Today: I am thankful for the salvation that God
has bestowed on me trough Jesus Christ my Savior and Lord, became I know that
God put His wrath onto Jesus so that I do not have to face His wrath some day. My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trusting that the Lord will get me through these
days where things are not always going my way. I need His grace. 12/16/2025
11:41 AM |
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