MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/7/2026
8:40 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-2
“Divine Prosecution”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Nahum
2:13
Message of the verse: “Behold, I am against you,” declares
Yahweh of Hosts. “And will burn up her
chariots in smoke, and a sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off
your prey from the hand, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be
heard.”
“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.” (ESV)
I will pick up from where I left off
in quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary on Nahum.
“While He destroyed the Assyrian
messengers who promoted their own glory, God would one day send His own
messenger as a forerunner to the Messiah.
Recording God’s announcement concerning this, Mark wrote, ‘Behold, I
send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way; the voice of one
crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord, make His paths
straight’’(Mark 1:2-3; cf. Isa. 40:3; Mal. 3:1; 4:5, 6).”
(cf. Isa. 40:3; Mal. 3:1; 4:5, 6)
“3 ¶ A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare
the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
“1 ¶ "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will
prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his
temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is
coming, says the LORD of hosts.”
“5 "Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to
their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and
strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.’”
“God sent
John the Baptist to be that messenger before Christ’s first coming (Luke
3:4-6). In the future, He will again send a messenger before
Christ returns to establish His kingdom.” It is my opinion that as I
look at the book of Revelation chapter 11:1-14 that I will quote in a moment
after looking at Luke 3:4-6), that it will explain to us about the two witnesses
it speaks of.
(Luke 3:4-6).
4 As it is written in the book of the words of
Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare
the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every
mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and
the rough places shall become level ways,”
Rev. 11:1-13
1 ¶ Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff,
and I was told, "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and
those who worship there, 2 but do not
measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to
the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. 3 ¶ And I will grant authority to my two
witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." 4
These are the two olive trees and the
two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from
their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he
is doomed to be killed. 6 They have the
power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their
prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to
strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. 7 And when they have finished their testimony, the
beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them
and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies
will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and
Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. 9 For three and a half days some from the
peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and
refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice
over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had
been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days a breath
of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear
fell on those who saw them. 12 Then they
heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up
to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13 And at that hour there was a great earthquake,
and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the
earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.”
Now as we can see in these verses
the names of these two witnesses are not given, however as one looks at the “miracles”
they do there is great speculation that these two witnesses are Moses and Elijah. I want to now quote from the gospels of
Matthew and also Mark as Jesus explains to His disciples concerning John the
Baptist and Elijah.
“14 and if you are willing to accept it, he is
Elijah who is to come.” (Matthew 11:14).
10 And the disciples asked him, “Then why do the
scribes say that first Elijah must come?” 11 He answered, "Elijah does come, and he
will restore all things. 12 But I tell you that Elijah has
already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they
pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands." 13
Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to
them of John the Baptist.” (Matthew 11:10-13)
“God designed Nineveh’s destruction to prefigure the
culmination of His plan for redemptive history.
When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, the desirable treasures of the
nations will be given to Israel (Nah. 2:9; cf. Hag. 2:8), the world will be
emptied so that God’s glory will fill it (Nah. 2:10; cf. Isa. 6:3), the lions
of the nations will be put down and the Lion of Judah will be exalted (Nah.
2:11-12; Rev. 5:5), and the messengers of this world will be silenced so that
the only message proclaimed will be the good news of Jesus Christ. While Nineveh’s desolation was grave, it
previewed for Israel the Lord’s ultimate victory over all His enemies,
providing comfort that God can and will fulfill all His promises.”
(Nah. 2:9; cf. Hag. 2:8)
“9 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is
no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.”
“8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,
declares the LORD of hosts.’
(Nah. 2:10; cf. Isa. 6:3)
10 ¶ On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month,
in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,”
“3 And one called to another and said:
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his
glory!’”
(Nah. 2:11-12; Rev. 5:5)
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.”
“5 And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no
more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered,
so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.’”
Spiritual
Meaning for My Life Today: As I look at the things that John MacArthur
wrote in this section about how the judgment of Nineveh has future events that
will happen in the nation of Israel it gave to me something that I would have
never figured out, and it also shows me how the Bible is one book, written by
different authors who were led by the Holy Spirit to complete it, and every
Word in it is true and every prophecy will come to fruition in the exact time
that God deems for it to happen.
My Steps
of Faith for Today. I am going through a very difficult time in my life, and
yet as I study the Word of God I can truly know that the Lord is in control of
everything going on, and I certainly must trust Him to do what He wants done in
my life to bring me to greater maturity, and to bring glory to His name.
From Dr.
David Jeremiah: “Worry is on old man
with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he things are lead.”
(Corrie Ten Boom)
“Do not
worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink? Or ‘What shall we
wear?’…For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.” (Matthew
6:31-32)
2/7/2026
9:20 AM
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