SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01-08-2026
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-3“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 continue to look at a new section from John MacArthur’s
commentary on chapter one and verse fourteen from the book of Nahum.
I have
to say that I believe that this will be a very short SD, as there is not much
left in MacArthur’s commentary, but as usual I will quote the verses that he
has listed in his commentary and then make some comments on what we are looking
at this morning. Nahum has been a book
that I certainly am learning from, especially from my favorite subject in God’s
Word, which has to do with end times events as that was what the Lord used to
bring me to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ on the 26th of
January in 1974. I am also thankful to
the Lord for never giving up with my walk with Him even though the road has
certainly not been paved with gold, but God is always faithful, and for that I
am thankful.
“Moreover,
Yahweh’s punishment of Nineveh would uphold His promises in the Abrahamic Covenant. As the Lord had declared that He would curse
those who oppressed Israel (cf. Gen. 12:3), so Yahweh proclaimed to the king of
Nineveh, ‘I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.’” Now I am going to quote Genesis 12:1-3
even though in MacArthur’s commentary he only mentioned 12:3, but I just can’t
do one of these very, very important verses.
“1 ¶ Now the LORD had said to Abram, “Get
out of your country, and from your family, and from your father’s household to
a land that I shall show you. 2 And I shall make you a great
nation, and I shall
bless you and I
shall make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 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.”
“Well known for its magnificent place, the royal city
magnified the power and splendor of its king.”
(cf.
Nahum 2:6)
“6 (2:7) The gates of the rivers are
opened, And the palace is dissolved.”
“But in His wrath and destruction of Nineveh, God would
prepare the city to become your (the king’s) grave. The king would be perpetually enshrined
in shame. Such desecration would occur
because God viewed the king as contemptible, which describes an object
that is worthless, detestable, and even cursed.
The same root appeared in God’s promise to Abraham, in which God
decreed, ‘I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you [or,
treats you as contemptible] I will curse’ (Gen. 12:3). Since Assyria cursed Israel, treating
them with contemptible, God declared that He would curse the king with
unceasing shame, thereby upholding the Abrahamic covenant. The prophesied death of Assyria’s king
displayed God’s unfailing commitment to the promises He had made to His people.”
Now as
we read the Word of God we can see that there are still more blessings that
will come upon the people of Israel, but before these great blessings to come
about there will be in the Tribulation period some great troubles, and the word
great does not come near to describe what will come upon Israel in the last
three and a half years of the tribulation.
That period has been called “The Great Tribulation,” and if the Lord
will not come back to earth at that time then there would be no earth left to
come back to. Let me share a few verses
from the 19th chapter of the book of Revelation which speaks of the
Lord’s return to planet earth.
11 ¶ And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a
white horse; and he who sat on him was called Faithful and True,
and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12 His eyes are as a flame of fire,
and on his head are many crowns; and he had a name written
which no man knows except himself. 13 And he was clothed with a robe
dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine
linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses. 15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp
sword, that with it he should strike the nations. And he will rule them
with a rod of iron. And he treads the winepress of the fierceness
and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And he has
on his robe and his thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD
OF LORDS. 17 And I saw one angel
standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the
birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the
supper of the great God, 18 that you may
eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the
flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who
sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both
small and great.” 19 And I saw the
beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make
war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And the beast was captured, and with him the
false prophet who had performed miracles before him, by which he
deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and
worshipped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning
with brimstone. 21 And the rest were
killed with the sword that proceeded out of the mouth of him who sat on the
horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh (Rev. 19:11-21).
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Knowing that the Lord can come back
for His Church at any time, it is my desire to get the word out that those only
who are born-again believers will go in that event called the rapture, and if
they miss that then they will be involved in the tribulation period where three
out of four people on planet earth will die.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to use the
Spiritual Diaries that I write and put onto the internet that the Spirit of God
will use them to bring glory to the Lord.
1/8/2026 10:58 AM
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