MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/11/2026
9:13 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-2
“Vengeance for Savage Brutality”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Nahum 3:1-3
Message of the verses: “1 ¶
Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the
prey! 2 The crack of the whip, and
rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! 3 Horsemen charging, flashing sword and
glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end—
they stumble over the bodies!” (ESV)
This morning I will pick up from
where I left off in yesterday’s morning SD.
MacArthur writes: “Nahum moved from describing the vivid sounds
of the battle to depicting the violent scene.
The epic conflict would include horsemen charging, and swords
flaming, and spears flashing. As the
future battle is described, the horsemen and charioteers of Assyria’s cavalry
would begin charging the enemy, in an effort to defend the city. Their unsheathed swords would be flaming
in the sun and their spears flashing like bolts of lightning as they
would thunder to meet their attackers.
The imagery was fearsome yet familiar to Nahum’s audience, since Assyria
had engaged in many such military operations.
But this time would be different.
The Assyrians would no longer be on the offensive. They would find themselves in a desperate
struggle to defend their capital city and the heart of their empire.
“Nineveh would suffer an outcome
that, for them, was both unfamiliar and unthinkable—catastrophic defeat. The prophecy given to Nahum painted a shocking
scene of many slain, a mass of corpses, and there is no end to dead bodies—they
stumble over the dead bodies! The
Assyrians would be severely defeated, resulting in many of their
soldiers bring slain. Just as
Nineveh had often stacked the lifeless bodies of their defeated foes, so a
mass of their corpses would fill the city (cf. Gen. 15:11; Num. 14:32-33).”
(cf. Gen. 15:11; Num. 14:32-33)
“11 And when birds of prey came down on the
carcasses, Abram drove them away.”
“32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in
this wilderness. 33 And your children
shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your
faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.”
“There would
seemingly be no end to the dead bodies strewn as far as the eye
could see. The carnage would be so
extensive that those who survive and seek to flee would stumble over the
dead bodies. Nahum’s repetition of dead
bodies served to amplify the gruesome image of layered corpses. While Nineveh’s military at first ‘stumbled’
in their eager rush to defend the city (cf. Nah. 2:5), in the end they would stumble
in their efforts to flee from it. At that
time, the Ninevites would become like the nations they previously conquered and
terrorized. Through this dramatic
reversal, the Lord would avenge His people for the violence Assyria had
committed against them.”
(cf. Nah. 2:5)
“5 He remembers his officers; they stumble as
they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.”
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life today: This story in Nahum that I am looking at
shows me that never be overconfident about things that you think will happen
when in fact they are not in the will of the Lord.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to work out His will in my
life, and perhaps His will for me at this time is to trust Him for an unseen
future and also to trust Him.
From David
Jeremiah: “The Lord gets His best
soldiers out of the Highlands of affliction.” (Charles H. Spurgeon)
“But
may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus,
after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle
you.” (1 Peter 5:10)
2/11/2026
9:36 AM
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