MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/28/2026
9:55 AM
My Worship
Time Focus:
“Intro to
Nahum 2:8-13”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Nahum
2:8-13
Message
of the verses: “8
Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!"
they cry, but none turns back. 9 Plunder
the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth
of all precious things. 10 Desolate!
Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins;
all faces grow pale!
11 ¶
Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the
lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb? 12 The lion tore enough for his cubs and
strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens
with torn flesh. 13 Behold, I am against
you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and
the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the
earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.”
John MacArthur writes the following as he introduces
his thoughts on the verses above: “The enemies of God may presume they can
oppose Him, but the Lord promises to obliterate them. Psalm 2 captures the arrogance of the wicked
with these words: “The kings of the
earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against Yahweh and
against His Anointed” (Ps. 2:2). In
response, God declares their destruction, saying to Messiah: “You shall break them with a rod of iron,
You shall shatter them like a potter’s vessel” (vs. 9).
“Throughout human history, wicked rulers have
challenged the supremacy of God, only to be crushed by Him. When Moses announced to Pharoah that Yahweh
commanded the Israelites to leave Egypt, Pharoah responded ‘Who is Yahweh
that I should listen to His voice to let Israel go?’ (Ex. 5:2). The Lord answered Pharaoh’s question by
decimating Egypt with severe plagues and drowning the Egyptian army in the
sea. When Goliath came against the
Israelites and ‘reproached’ the God of Israel, the Lord sent David to
kill him (cf. 1Samuel 17:25-26, 36, 45).”
(cf. 1Samuel 17:25-26, 36, 45)
“25 And the men of Israel said, "Have you
seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the
king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his
daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel." 26 And David said to the men who stood by him,
"What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away
the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he
should defy the armies of the living God?’”
36 Your servant has struck down both lions and
bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has
defied the armies of the living God.’”
“45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You
come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you
in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you
have defied.”
“The king
of Tyre said of himself, ‘I will make myself like the Most High’ (Isa.
14:14), and even declared, I am god’ (Ezek. 28:2). But Yahweh replied, ‘You are a man and not
God….You will die the death of the uncircumcised…And you will cease to be
forever’ (28:2, 10, 19). God’s chief
enemy Satan will rise up against God in the final battle of Gog and Magog, but
God will cast the devil into the lake of fire and brimstone (Rev. 20:7-10).”
(Rev. 20:7-10)
“7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan
will be released from his prison 8 and
will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth,
Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the
sea. 9 And they marched up over the
broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved
city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, 10 and the devil who had deceived them was
thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet
were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
Now let me just say that in the
books of Isaiah, chapter 14 and also Ezekiel 28, that in these verses we see
that the dialogue is speaking of Satan.
Let me just search for those verses and then post them. 12
"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you
are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! 13 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God I
will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the
north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like
the Most High.’ (Isaiah 14:12-14).” Notice the five “I will’s” that
Satan is saying, and none of them will come to pass.
Now I want to look at Ezekiel 28 to
see the other place where Satan is bragging. I have remembered these two places
where the Old Testament speaks of Satan’s bragging by remembering that in
Isaiah it is in chapter 14, and Ezekiel it is chapter 28, (14 times 2 is 28).
“12 "Son of man, raise a lamentation over
the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the
signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every
precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and
jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your
settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were
prepared. 14 You were an anointed
guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the
midst of the stones of fire you walked. 15
You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till
unrighteousness was found in you. 16 In
the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and
you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I
destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the
ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you. 18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the
unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire
out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in
the sight of all who saw you. 19 All who
know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end
and shall be no more forever.’” (Ezekiel 28:12-19).
“Yahweh’s
victory over His enemies will be so definitive that He will destroy even death
itself. As Paul explained, The last
enemy to be abolished is death’ (1 Cor 15:26; cf. Heb. 2:14-15; Rev. 20:14). Any
adversary who dares to oppose God will be irrevocably vanquished by Him.”
(1 Cor 15:26; cf. Heb. 2:14-15; Rev.
20:14)
“26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”
“14
¶ Since therefore the children share in
flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through
death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 and deliver all those who through
fear of death were subject to lifelong subject to slavery.”
“14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake
of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in
the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
Looks like I will try and finish
this introduction in tomorrow morning’s SD.
Sorry about the length of this but I had to find a good place to stop.
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life Today: As I look at the verses in both Isaiah and
Ezekiel which speak of Satan, one thing is clear and that is that God does not
like bragging. God wants and deserve
glory for what He does in my heart, and in the hearts of all believers and in
the end as I follow the things that God has called me to do He will receive all
the glory.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I continue to pray for my wife as
she deals with cancer and also another problem which I will not write about,
pray that God will give victory to her over both of these issues.
From Dr.
David Jeremiahs “Turning Points Wisdom.” “Soul surgery transpires as serenity
replaces anxiety.” (Charles Swindoll.)
“Be
still and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10 NIV)
1/28/2026
10:54 AM
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