Nineveh.....July, 2014
God's word to Nineveh given through the prophet Nahum was unrelenting. It wasn't a warning as Jonah had given.... it was a proclamation of coming judgement. Nineveh was a "bloody city.....full of lies and robbery"....and a "mistress of sorceries." It had been a great and powerful city whose "merchants" were multiplied "more than the stars of heaven" but whose "shepherds slumber" while "the gates of (its) land (were) open for (its) enemies."
It's a dichotomy. On the one hand is America's heritage....the greatest nation on this earth, that God used to spread His gospel and secure freedom and liberty for multitudes of people, but on the other hand many of our laws now mock God and attempt to keep our children away from Him. We wantonly kill the preborn and then celebrate how liberal we have become. The coup de gras is that in the future our children, in every way imaginable, through entertainments and education and in every facet of everyday life, will be coaxed, prodded and even threatened to deny God's commands to us concerning homosexuality.
Oh yes there is still a remnant, you can see it in many churches, in our military, in young mothers who will never turn their children over to a village chieftain, in hard working fathers who teach their children to work hard and not to demand handouts as rights, and in older generations who know of America's heritage of acknowledging God's protective hand upon our nation and its people.
We have had forty years of Jonahs, we've had a hundred years of Jonahs, we've had a hundred and fifty years of warnings but we interpret that longsufferring of God towards us as evidence that He hasn't the will or the power to bring judgement!
