SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/23/2025 9:30
AM
My
Worship
Time Focus: Pt.-6 “The God of Irresistible
Power”
Bible
Reading &
Meditation Reference: Nahum 1:3b-6
Message
of the verses: “ב His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, And the clouds are
the dust of his feet.4 ג He rebukes
the sea and makes it dry, And dries up all the rivers. ד Bashan
and Carmel wither And the flower of Lebanon
wilts.5 ה The mountains quake
before him, And the hills melt, ו And the
earth burns at his presence, Yes, the world and
all who live in it.6 ז Who
can stand before his indignation? And who can endure the fierceness
of his anger? ח His fury is poured out like
fire, And the rocks are thrown down by him.”
I
will now continue to quote from John MacArthur’s commentary on Nahum, and also
put in my own thoughts, along with adding many of the Scripture references that
MacArthur adds in his commentary.
“In light of God’s vengeance and
omnipotence, Nahum posed two rhetorical questions: “Who can stand before His
indignation? Who can endure the burning
of His anger?’ The answer to both
questions is obvious. No one can
stand before His indignation, to survive His wrathful and destructive curse
(cf. Isa. 10:5; 13:5; Jer.
10:10).”
“5 ¶ “Woe to Assyria, the rod of my
anger And the staff in whose hand
is my indignation.”
“5 They come from a far
country, From the end of
heaven, Even the LORD and the
weapons of his indignation, To destroy
the whole land.”
“10 But the LORD is the true
God; He is the living God
and the everlasting King. At his
wrath the earth will tremble, And the
nations will not endure his indignation.”
“No one
can stop or ignited and unleashed (cf. Exo. 32:12; Ps. 1:5).”
“12 Why should the Egyptians speak, and
say, ‘He brought them out for evil to kill them in the mountains, and to
consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath,
and relent from this evil against your people.”
“5 Therefore the ungodly will not stand
in the judgment, Nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous.”
“No one
can stop or survive the wrath of God.
Instead, people will ide in the face of His judgment, crying out to the
mountains and rocks, ‘FALL ON US AND HIDE US from the wrath of the Lamb, for
the great DAY OF their WRATH has come, and who is able to stand?’ (Rev.
6:16-17).
“In addition to these rhetorical questions, Nahum
added tow reminders to stress the might of God’s vengeance. First, the prophet exclaimed, His wrath is
poured out like fire,’ God’s burning
wrath against sin overwhelms the wicked like a volcano eruption that is poured
out from the heavens (cf.
Ex. 9:23, 33; 2 Sam. 21:10; Ezek. 22:21), and it spreads like fire, destroying
everything it encounters.” (Now we will post the verses which are highlighted
above.)
“23 And Moses stretched out his staff towards
heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran along on
the ground. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of
Egypt.”
“33 And Moses went out of the city from
Pharaoh and spread out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and hail
ceased, and the rain did not pour upon the earth.”
“10 ¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took
sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of
harvest until rain fell upon them from heaven. And she did not allow the
birds of the air to rest upon them by day nor the beasts of the field by
night.”
21 Yes, I shall gather you and blow on you with the
fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in its midst.”
“Second,
Nahum declared, ‘And the rocks are torn down by Him.’ If mountain boulders disintegrate before
God’s judgment against Nineveh was impossible to resist or prevent. Nineveh, which was once shown mercy, should
have never thought that it could escape God’s wrath, for God rules heaven and
earth with irresistible might.”
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life Today: God never changes and as one looks at His
attributes they can see that it is kind of difficult for a human to understand
them. Let me explain; God is love, and
that is the attribute that many people think of when they think of God, but God
is also just, which means that He has to deal with sin in the lives of
people. God is patience and as one looks
at Nineveh we can see these attributes.
God certainly was merciful in sending Jonah to them, and then 100 years
later Nineveh became evil like before Jonah was there.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I am trusting the Lord for my wife’s infusion
this morning for he cancer treatment, that things will go well.
One more note and that is because
tomorrow is Christmas I will post a SD that I wrote years ago for Christmas.
12/24/2025
10:14 AM
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