SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01-06-2026
My
Worship Time
Focus:
PT-1“Judgement
Affirms God’s Promises”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Nahum
1:14
Message
of the verses: “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.”
This morning we begin a new section from John MacArthur’s commentary on chapter
one and verse fourteen from the book of Nahum.
“Having
prophesied Nineveh’s demise, Nahum then described specifically the death of its
king, saying, ‘Yahweh has commanded concerning you.’ While the prophet had earlier addressed
the city (Using a feminine pronoun; cf. v. 11), here he addressed the city’s
ruler (using a masculine pronoun.”
“11 Out of you comes One who plots evil against the
LORD, A wicked counsellor” (Nahum
1:11).
The king may have given many commands during his reign,
but it was Yahweh who gave the final command concerning the
king. As the King of kings and Israel’s
covenant God, Yahweh issued this decree against the king of Nineveh to
demonstrate that He would keep His promises to His own.
“The
Lord condemned the Assyrian king with the judgment that there will no longer
be seed from your name, indicating that he would not have a descendant to
sit on his throne. Destroying the ruler’s
seed and name, directly contrasted with God’s promise to
establish Abraham’s seed and name (cf. Gen. 12:3; 12:7; 22:18) as well as to
sustain the messianic Seed of the woman (cf. Gen. 3:15; Gal. 3:16).”
(cf.
Gen. 12:3; 12:7; 22:18)
“3 And I shall bless those who bless you,
and I shall curse him who curses you, and in you, all the
families of the earth will be blessed.’”
“7 And the LORD appeared to Abram and
said, “To your descendants, I shall give this land.” And there he built an
altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.”
18 and in your Seed all the nations of the
earth will be blessed because you have obeyed my voice.’”
(cf.
Gen. 3:15; Gal. 3:16)
“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.’”
“16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises
spoken. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to
your Seed,” who is Christ.”
“By eradicating the king’s seed and name, the
Lord demonstrated that the seed of evildoers will perish (cf. Isa. 14:20; Jer.
22:30; 29:32; 49:10), that Israel’s seed and name will endure forever (cf. Isa.
6:13; 66:22), and that the messianic Seed will triumph (cf. Gen. 3:15; Rom.
16:20; Rev. 12)”
(cf.
Isa. 14:20; Jer. 22:30; 29:32; 49:10)
“20 You will not be joined with them in
burial, Because you have destroyed your
land And have slain your
people. The brood of evildoers
will not be renowned.”
“30 Thus says the LORD, ‘Write down this man as childless, A man who will not prosper in
his days; For no man of his descendants
will prosper, Sitting on the
throne of David, And ruling in Judah any
more.’”
“32 Therefore thus says the LORD,
"Behold, I shall punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his
descendants: he will have no man to live among this people, nor will he
see the good that I shall do for my people," says the LORD,
"because he has taught rebellion against the LORD."’”
10 But I have made Esau bare; I have uncovered his secret places, And he will not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered, and his brethren
And his neighbors, and he is no more.”
(cf.
Isa. 6:13; 66:22)
“13 But yet a tenth will be in
it, And it will return and be for
consuming, As an oak tree and as an
oak, Whose stump remains when it
is cut down. So the holy seed
will be its stump.’”
“22 “For as the new heavens And the new earth which I shall
make Will remain before me,” says
the LORD, “So will your
descendants and your name remain.”
(cf.
Gen. 3:15; Rom. 16:20; Rev. 12)
“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.’”
“20 And the God of peace will bruise Satan under
your feet shortly. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you. Amen.”
I will leave it up to those who read this SD to look
the 12th chapter of Revelation.
“Though the seed and the name of Nineveh’s
king will perish, Israel could rejoice in knowing that God was upholding His
promises to His people.”
Spiritual meaning for my life
today: As I think of the word promise and then think that there have been
countless numbers of promises not kept in this world, but then think of the
promises that God has made in His Word, and knowing that all of them will be
fulfilled, then that makes me to continue to read and study the Word of
God. The promise of salvation to all who
have or will believe in the Word of God is probably the most precious promise
found in His Word. This happened to me
on January 22, 1974, and this has changed my life in the direction and purpose
of it forever, and I am looking forward to another promise found in God’s Word:
“13 ¶ But I do not want you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are fallen asleep, lest
you be sorrowful as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the
Lord: that we who are alive and remain until the coming of
the Lord will not precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the
trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we, who are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore, comfort each other with
these words (1 Thes. 4:13-18).”
My Steps of Faith for Today: I desire to continue to use my
Spiritual Diaries to allow the Holy Spirit of God to continue to send them
around the world praying that they will be used to draw people to Christ, so
that when the trumpet is sounded that they too will be a part of the rapture.
I am using Dr. David Jeremiah’s stories and verses as a
part of my Spiritual Diaries.
“Success
is never final; failure is never fatal; it is courage that counts.” (Winston
Churchill)
“Be strong
and courageous; do not be afraid nor dismayed…But with us is the Lord our God,
to help us and to fight our battles.” (2 Chronicles 32:7a-8b)
1/6/2026
11:03 AM
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