WHEN GOD IS NOT FOR YOU (2 OF 3)
Scripture: Nahum 2:1-13, Nahum 3:1-19
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When God Is Not for You (2 of 3)
Series: Genesis and Nahum
Robert Dawson
Nahum 2:1-13, Nahum 3:1-19
Growing up I remember watching the Incredible Hulk on television, the old show starring Lou Ferrigno as the Incredible Hulk and Bill Bixby as David Banner. One of the classic scenes and lines in the show is when David Banner tells a reporter who was always hounding him says, ''Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.''
The prophets, in warning the nations of potential judgment or coming judgment, delivered a similar message. Don't make God angry. You won't like what happens when God's patience runs out and grace gives way to justice, which is what happened to Nineveh. Nineveh, at one time, knew God's grace and forgiveness but after 200 years of provoking the Lord, they were to soon experience the anger and wrath of God.
What was it about Nineveh that made solicited God's wrath and anger? How would that judgement come? These are the questions we will answer in our study of Nahum today. We will take the last two chapter together, starting primarily with chapter 3 and working back to chapter 2.
What incited God to pronounce coming judgment on Nineveh? What makes God angry?
God is angered by a blatant disregard for human life.
The Assyrians were a violent people. This violence was not just seen in the casualties that occurred from their military conquest. It went beyond the bloodshed that is inexorably connected to war.
They were brutal. Nahum refers to Nineveh as the bloody city. Nahum 3.1 says, ''Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey does not leave.'' He said her prey does not leave. There were always people being brutalized in her city. There were always victims in their midst. Their violence was always on display.
It was a culture of violence and degrading behavior that showed no regard for human life. It saw the life of others as something that was cheap. It made a spectacle of its enemies. ...
Series: Genesis and Nahum
Robert Dawson
Nahum 2:1-13, Nahum 3:1-19
Growing up I remember watching the Incredible Hulk on television, the old show starring Lou Ferrigno as the Incredible Hulk and Bill Bixby as David Banner. One of the classic scenes and lines in the show is when David Banner tells a reporter who was always hounding him says, ''Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.''
The prophets, in warning the nations of potential judgment or coming judgment, delivered a similar message. Don't make God angry. You won't like what happens when God's patience runs out and grace gives way to justice, which is what happened to Nineveh. Nineveh, at one time, knew God's grace and forgiveness but after 200 years of provoking the Lord, they were to soon experience the anger and wrath of God.
What was it about Nineveh that made solicited God's wrath and anger? How would that judgement come? These are the questions we will answer in our study of Nahum today. We will take the last two chapter together, starting primarily with chapter 3 and working back to chapter 2.
What incited God to pronounce coming judgment on Nineveh? What makes God angry?
God is angered by a blatant disregard for human life.
The Assyrians were a violent people. This violence was not just seen in the casualties that occurred from their military conquest. It went beyond the bloodshed that is inexorably connected to war.
They were brutal. Nahum refers to Nineveh as the bloody city. Nahum 3.1 says, ''Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey does not leave.'' He said her prey does not leave. There were always people being brutalized in her city. There were always victims in their midst. Their violence was always on display.
It was a culture of violence and degrading behavior that showed no regard for human life. It saw the life of others as something that was cheap. It made a spectacle of its enemies. ...
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