Nahum overview

A very specific prophesy promising that God will judge the cruelty and evil of the Assyrian empire when the capital, Nineveh, falls.

It was written as a comfort no doubt, to remind the Jews, feeling abandoned by their Lord, that God is still in control.

There is a passing reference to God’s character of being merciful, in chapter one. It also promises that he is slow to anger, but once the anger comes, once God is against you, there is no power in heaven or earth can resist the coming judgment and justice.

Did anyone in Nineveh find mercy from God? That his in God’s hands. But their victims are promised justice.

Evil will not triumph forever. This is something we still need to believe, a promise that strikes at so much of our pain and sadness.

1 God ‘s character, slow to anger. Now angry, against Nineveh.

2 the consequence of having God against you, a vision of Nineveh’s destruction

3 reminding us of how deserved Nineveh’s destruction is, how it represents justice for the victims of Assyrian cruelty