We Are Nineveh
by Ken Pullen
ACP
January 16, 2012
A failure of those mocking and scoffing at the Bible, and of many professed believers is they do not read, they do not discern, and they either completely doubt – or they only view the Bible, and especially the Older Testament as either fantasy or a mere history book.
The prophet Nahum, which means comfort of God, who’s short book relegated him to “minor prophet” is given a lot to say by the divine hand of God and the Holy Spirit. In reading and studying, and upon meditation and faith in the hand of God to reveal, relying upon the Holy Spirit, in reading the Book of Nahum in the Older Testament we not only are given the follow-up to the Book of Jonah, it is revealed to us WE ARE NINEVEH.
A place wholly departed from God.
Mocking God. Ignoring God. A cruel and violent place. A place self obsessed. A place with nothing but time for indulgences of fleshly desire and the worship and adulation of idols, false gods, and false doctrine.
Those who refuse the truth, or pervert and corrupt the truth to fit their way of thinking in the polluted waters of modern-day theology, who either deny God or view Him in a thin one-dimensional manner will learn judgment comes to those who do not obey and follow – judgment comes to those who do not realize their purpose for being is to worship, honor, and praise the Lord and give thanks unto the Lord – and to accept and follow the Son. Not merely in lip service of saying, “I believe in Jesus Christ” as if this once-and-done-I’m-saved-now blasphemy will accomplish eternal life for them as they continue in sin, continue in the ways of the flesh and this world.
Need evidence? Just examine what the churches and professed Christians of this nation and this world now allow and embrace. Under the pretense of love. Under the lie of following in the footsteps of Yeshua, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Oh, judgment is coming. The wrath of God and Christ are soon to appear on our horizon where every knee shall bow and every eye shall see!
WE ARE NINEVEH – make no mistake.
Note:
In the Scripture that follows, the Book of Nahum, in verse 12 of the first chapter the words “quiet, and likewise many” are used. In the context of this expression, although a literal translation of the Hebrew, it does not seem to make much sense to the reader. Actually the Hebrew here represents a transliteration of a long-forgotten Assyrian legal formula. Excavation in the ruins of ancient Nineveh, buried since 612 B.C., has brought to light thousands of ancient Assyrian tablets, dozens of which contain this Assyrian legal formula.
It proves, on investigation, to indicate joint and several responsibility for carrying out an obligation.
Nahum quotes the Lord as using this Assyrian formula in speaking to the Assyrians, saying in effect, “Even though your entire nation joins as one person to resist me, nevertheless I shall overcome you.” Whether they voice themselves or not. As the words would have been equally incomprehensible to the later Hebrew copyists, their retention is striking evidence of the care of the scribes in copying exactly what they found in the manuscripts, and testifies to God’s providential preservation of the Biblical text.
Also of note, to the discerning spirit much can be gained relying on the Holy Spirit than just the historical account regarding the prophecy of Nineveh by Nahum. We should search the Scriptures, our hearts, and ask the Holy Spirit to show us what others might not see – and the words of warning for Nineveh in chapter one, verses 9-15 apply almost word for word for our time, and the time near at hand. Read carefully. Meditate upon. Study to be a good workman approved. A world consumed in evil with the people not protesting but following that evil. Shunning God Almighty. Defiling the faith. Defiling churches professing to serve and honor Christ and the Word of God. One coming that is nothing but evil imagined against the Lord. Another coming, whose feet upon the mountains bringeth the published peace (after judgment of the world) where the wicked shall no more pass through and shall be forever cut off. Who’s feet will be coming soon upon the Mount of Olives to bring justice, order, and peace finally?
NAHUM
CHAPTER 1
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
CHAPTER 2
1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
CHAPTER 3
1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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