MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/25/2026
1:53 AM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The Plight of Those Under Judgment”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Nahum
2:7
Message of the verse: “So it stands fixed: She is exiled,
she is carried away, And her maidservants are moaning like the sound of doves,
Beating on their hearts.
“7 its mistress is stripped; she is carried off,
her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.” (ESV)
Now remember that I am starting this
SD in the middle of a paragraph from John MacArthur’s commentary because there
were many verses to look up.
“Nineveh’s destruction would be
fulfilled precisely as Nahum had prophesied: its survivors carried away from
their land as captives, and their gods shown to be impotent. Exiled connotes
the idea of exposing or laying something bare or naked (Nahum 3:5; cf. Isa.
47:2-3; Ezek. 16:37).”
(Nahum 3:5; cf. Isa. 47:2-3; Ezek.
16:37)
5 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD
of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations
look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.”
“2 Take the millstones and grind flour, put off
your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and
your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.”
“37 therefore, behold, I will gather all your
lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you
hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your
nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.”
“It was
used as a technical term for exile because captivity exposed a nation in its
shame (cf. 2 Kings 17:6, 11, 23; 18:11).
(cf. 2 Kings 17:6, 11, 23; 18:11)
“6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of
Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and
placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities
of the Medes.”
11 and there they made offerings on all the high
places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD
to anger,”
23 until the LORD removed Israel out of his
sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled
from their own land to Assyria until this day.”
“11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites
away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan,
and in the cities of the Medes,”
“The proud
city of Nineveh and its gods would be humiliated, which would be God’s
retribution Against Assyria’s exile of the northern kingdom of Israel (cf. 2
Kings 17; 18:11; Isa. 10:5-12). The Lord
promised through Nahum that He would seek vengeance for His people.”
(cf. 2 Kings 17; 18:11; Isa. 10:5-12)
2 Kings 17 has forty verses in it so I will not copy that here.
““11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites
away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan,
and in the cities of the Medes,”
5
¶ Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the
staff in their hands is my fury! 6
Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath
I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the
mire of the streets. 7 But he does not
so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few; 8 for
he says: "Are not my commanders all kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath
like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images
were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as
I have done to Samaria and her images?" 12
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem,
he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the
boastful look in his eyes.”
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life Today: I realize that many people have a difficult
time in studying the Old Testament, but as we look at this prophecy in Nahum we
can see that God did exactly what Nahum, through the power of the Holy Spirit,
wrote what would happen to Assyria and it happened. God has so much prophecy in the Old Testament
that has not yet been fulfilled, but I can say with assurance it will all be
fulfilled. One of my favorite prophecies
from the Old Testament comes from Daniel 9:27 “27 And he shall make a strong covenant with many
for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and
offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate,
until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.’” Daniel is speaking of the Antichrist in
using “he.” The Antichrist will make a
covenant with Israel during the tribulation period for seven years (one week),
but half way through the seven-year tribulation period will break it, as the
last half of the tribulation period will be much worse on Israel than the
first.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to
trust the Lord for strength for my wife as she goes through this very
difficult time with her cancer.
From David
Jeremiah: “If thou thinkest twice,
before thou speakest once, Thou wilt speak twice the better for it. (William Penn). “He who answers a matter before he hears
it, it is a folly and a shame to him. )Proverbs 18:13).
1/25/2026
2:18 PM
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