MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/26/2026
10:33 AM
My
Worship
Time Focus: PT-3 “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)
John MacArthur writes:
“Second, in addition to experiencing shame, Nineveh would also be made
desolate, as she carried away, meaning that both the city’s population
and its possessions were taken into captivity.
Carried away means to ‘go up,’ and can refer to going up to a
city and even to being offered up as a sacrifice (Judges 6:28; cf. Genesis
8:20; 22:2, 13; Exodus 24:5).”
(Judges 6:28; cf. Genesis 8:20; 22:2,
13; Exodus 24:5)
28 When the men of the town rose early in the
morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it
was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.”
“20 ¶ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took
some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt
offerings on the altar.”
“2 He said, "Take your son, your only son
Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a
burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.’”
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked,
and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham
went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.”
“5 And he sent young men of the people of
Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to
the LORD.”
“Those who
had ‘gone up’ to take Israel into exile (cf. 2 Kings 17:3, 5) and to besiege
Jerusalem (cf. 8:13) would themselves experience the same.”
(cf. 2 Kings 17:3, 5)
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of
Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.”
5 Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land
and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.”
(cf. 8:13)
13 And Hazael said, "What is your servant,
who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered,
"The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.’”
“As the
smoke of Nineveh’s ruins rose into the sky and her citizens were deported,
Nahum called Israel to recognize that Nineveh was like a sacrifice to satisfy
God’s wrath (cf. Zeph. 1:7-13). The Ninevites would be carried away never
to return again, while their former home became a place of permanent desolation
(cf. 2:13).”
(cf. Zeph. 1:7-13).
7
¶ Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the
day of the LORD is near; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his
guests. 8 And on the day of the LORD’s
sacrifice— "I will punish the officials and the king’s sons and all who
array themselves in foreign attire. 9 On
that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who
fill their master’s house with violence and fraud. 10 "On that day," declares the LORD,
"a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a
loud crash from the hills. 11 Wail, O
inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out
silver are cut off. 12 At that time I
will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent,
those who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.’
13 Their goods shall be plundered, and
their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them;
though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.’”
(cf. 2:13)
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.”
Now there is one more part to look
at, pt. 3, and I think it best to wait until tomorrow to look at it, and the
reason is that there are still many verses to look up and to post on my
Spiritual Diary, and as mentioned before I try not to make these Spiritual
Diary’s too long, but sometimes it seems that I have to do that.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I realize that it is very hard to understand
everything that God is doing, or has done in the Old Testament, but it seems to
me that God setting the stage for bringing His Son into the earth in order to
take care of the sin problem. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and
you shall bruise his heel." (Gen. 3:15) This is a very key verse that
God spoke to Adam and Eve after they had sinned, a sin that would lead all humanity
down the road to become sinful the moment they were born, and so we see in this
verse from Genesis that God had a plan to redeem sinners from their sinfulness,
and it was fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ the day that He was put onto a
cross to pay for my sin and to all of those who would come to Him in humility
asking to be saved. This happened to me
52 years ago today as the Spirit of God convicted me of my sinful condition and
came into my life in order to led and guide me through this sinful world. I am ever thankful for the salvation that God
gave to me through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I trust that the Lord will continue to led
and guide me to do the things that He has given me to do for the cause of
Christ until Jesus comes to the clouds above the earth in order to take His Church
home to be with Him where we will serve Him throughout eternity.
From David
Jeremiah’s “Words of Wisdom” series: “The
Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but
that we should engrave them upon our hearts.” (St. Jonh Chrysostom)
Your
Word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against You.” (Psalm
119:11).
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