PT-3 “Intro to “Comfort through Judgment”

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/31/2025 10:00 AM

My Worship Time                                     Focus:  PT-3“Intro to “Comfort through Judgment”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                Reference:  Nahum 1:9-15

            Message of the verses:  “9 ¶  What do you conspire against the LORD?  He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time. 10  For while tangled like thorns,  And while drunken like drunkards,  They will be devoured like stubble fully dry. 11  Out of you comes  One who plots evil against the LORD,  A wicked counsellor.  12  Thus says the LORD:  “Though they are quiet and likewise many,  Yet they will be cut down when he will pass through.  Though I have afflicted you, I shall afflict you no more; 13  For now I shall break off his yoke from you,  And burst your bonds apart.” 14  And the LORD has given a command concerning you,  “Your name will be perpetuated no more.  Out of the house of your gods, I shall cut off  The carved image and the moulded image.  I shall make your grave, for you are vile.” 15  (2:1) Behold, upon the mountains  The feet of him who brings good news,  Who proclaims peace!  Oh Judah, keep your feasts,  Perform your vows.  For no more  Will the wicked man pass through you;  He is utterly cut off.”

            I continue looking at the introduction to the above verses written by Nahum using John MacArthur’s commentary along with some of my comments and quoting many of the verses that MacArthur inserts in his commentary.

            “The promise of the Messiah provides an even greater example of this relationship between near and distant prophecies.  The Old Testament reveals that the Messiah will conquer all His enemies and reign on earth during the millennial kingdom (cf. Ps. 110:1; Zech. 14).”

(cf. Ps. 110:1; Zech. 14)

“1 ¶  «A Psalm of David.» The LORD said to my Lord  “Sit at my right hand  Until I make your enemies  Your footstool.”

I will not quote Zecheriah 14 because of the length of the passage, but encourage you to look it up and read it.

“But Scripture also predicted that before Christ’s ultimate victory, He would suffer, die, and rise again (cf. Gen. 3:15; Psalm 16:10; Isa. 53; Zech. 12:10-13a).”

(cf. Gen. 3:15; Psalm 16:10; Isa. 53; Zech. 12:10-13a) 

“15  And I shall put enmity  Between you and the woman,  And between your seed  And her seed;  He will bruise your head,  And you will bruise his heel.”

“10  For you will not leave my body in the grave,  Nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.”

“1 ¶  Who has believed our report?  And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2  For he will grow up as a tender plant

before him,  And as a root out of dry ground.  He has no form or comeliness,  And when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3  He is despised and rejected by men,  A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.  And we hid, as it were, our faces from

him;  He was despised, and we did not esteem him.

    4 ¶  Surely he has borne our griefs  And has carried our sorrows;  Yet we esteemed him stricken,  Struck by God, and afflicted. 5  But he was wounded for our transgressions,  He was bruised for our iniquities;  The chastisement for our peace was upon him,  And by his stripes, we are healed. 6  All we like sheep have gone astray;  We have turned, every one of us, to his own way,  And the LORD has laid on him  The iniquity of us all. 7  He was oppressed and he was afflicted,  Yet he did not open his mouth;  He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,  And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,  So he did not open his mouth. 8  He was taken from prison and judgment,  And who will declare his generation?  For he was cut off from the land of the living;  For the transgressions of my people he was stricken. 9  And he made his grave with the wicked,  And with the rich man at his death,  Because he had done no violence,  Nor was any deceit in his mouth.

    10 ¶  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief.  When you make his soul an offering for sin,  He will see his seed, he will prolong his days,  And the pleasure of the LORD will prosper in his hand. 11  He will see the travail of his soul, and be satisfied.  By his knowledge, my righteous Servant will justify many,  For he will bear their iniquities. 12  Therefore I shall divide him a portion with the great,  And he will divide the plunder with the strong,  Because he poured out his soul to death,  And he was numbered with the transgressors,  And he bore the sin of many,  And made intercession for the transgressors.”

“10  And I shall pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications, and they will look on me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and is in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for a firstborn. 11  On that day the mourning will be great in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadad Rimmon in the Valley of Megiddo. 12  And the land will mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13  the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14  all the families that remain, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.” 1 ¶  “On that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.”

“Because the Lord Jesus perfectly fulfilled the prophecies regarding His firs coming, He proved the veracity of those prophecies related to His second coming.  Believers can therefore rest with certainty in the truthfulness of those promises which are yet to be fulfilled.  As the angels declared to the disciples on the Mount of Olives, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking toward heaven?  This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven’ (Act. 1:11).

            “With the language ‘Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who proclaims good news’ (Nahum 1:15), Nathan linked his prophecy with the words of Isaiah (cf. Isa. 52:7).”

(cf. Isa. 52:7)

“  7 ¶  How beautiful upon the mountains  Are the feet of him who brings good news,  Proclaims peace, who brings good news,  Who proclaim salvation,  Who say to Zion,  “Your God reigns.’”

“Nahum’s message of Nineveh’s fall was the near prophecy that served as a guarantee for eschatological destruction of Israel’s enemies and establishment of Messiah’s earthly kingdom.  In detailing Nineveh’s demise, God confirmed the certainty of His plan (1:9-13), His promises (v. 14), and His prophecies (v. 15).  All of this brought comfort to God’ people, both in the immediate and for all time.”

Spiritual Meaning for my Life Today:  Trusting God to do all of the things that He said will happen, found in His Word, increases my faith.

My Steps of Faith for Today:  I am trusting that the Lord will answer a very important prayer form me.

12/31/2025 10:23 AM