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We don't know the exact dates for the writing of the Old Testament books of Jonah and Nahum but a rough estimate might be that they were written 150 years apart. Most people are more familiar with how Jonah eventually relayed God's warning to the great city of Nineveh. That warning being that they had forty days to repent or be overthrown. Nineveh did repent and God postponed judgement. Nahum's message to Nineveh was an entirely different one.....God's judgement was imminent.......there was to be no forty days and no offer to repent this time.
It would take a whole book to describe what America went through during our Civil War and a far greater talent than I have to do it. I long ago lost track of how many times I have visited Gettysburg. One chapter from the short novel I wrote fifteen years ago, which is available at the link to your left, takes place as the main character visits the battlefield of Gettysburg. There were large revivals in both the North and The South during that war and we did survive as a nation but the downward slope away from God began again after the dust had settled, and we are almost exponentially more rebellious of a people today than we were in the 1850s.
A little over forty years ago the Christian community in America was awakened once again as to God's warnings to not only us but the entire world. These warnings were only in bits and pieces and much of it contained error in the specifics but much of it was also very sound and straightforward. Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth was significant in that it set the stage for multitudes to begin to think about the literal judgement of God upon a wicked world. Billy Graham's 1985 Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was significant in that it was based on biblical warnings rather than speculations. He wrote of those hoofbeats....."They come as a warning, and grow louder by the day." Today those hoofbeats sound like steel hoofs clamoring over giant copper cymbals.
In my personal opinion I can see four very specific and very egregious evolutions if you will in our rebellion against Almighty God. In the first we legislated God out of our schoolrooms. Our children would now not only be prohibited from reverencing God in their education but God would be outright ridiculed by many authority figures in their lives. In the second we were given the right through Roe v Wade to destroy our children in the womb before they could impinge upon our lifestyles simply by being born. Third, we turned the children over to the merchants and profiteers, many of them unscrupulous and some predators, almost totally free of oversight as to how their products would affect the children and ultimately affect society through a generation raised on instant gratification and self-esteem. Fourth, the subterfuge of same-sex marriage is viewed as compassion and fairness rather than what it really is, a bold final assault on our children's belief in God! Many polls show the effectiveness of the deceit, not only by the mainstream liberal churches but much of evangelicalism itself. We are choosing politics, our paychecks, our pensions and our entertainments.......over our children and over God's commands.
The warnings to us were always there in God's Word but they appeared in a different medium four decades ago with almost as shocking an affect to many as did a stomach acid bleached prophet of God.... vomited out of a giant fish, but Jonah's appearance pales in relation to the message given by Nahum of certain coming judgement. I encourage you to read these three short chapters of the Book of Nahum and meditate upon what God had done before. If it does unnerve you, as it should, there is always the seventh verse of the first chapter to at least store away...."The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows who trusts in Him."
We don't know the exact dates for the writing of the Old Testament books of Jonah and Nahum but a rough estimate might be that they were written 150 years apart. Most people are more familiar with how Jonah eventually relayed God's warning to the great city of Nineveh. That warning being that they had forty days to repent or be overthrown. Nineveh did repent and God postponed judgement. Nahum's message to Nineveh was an entirely different one.....God's judgement was imminent.......there was to be no forty days and no offer to repent this time.
It would take a whole book to describe what America went through during our Civil War and a far greater talent than I have to do it. I long ago lost track of how many times I have visited Gettysburg. One chapter from the short novel I wrote fifteen years ago, which is available at the link to your left, takes place as the main character visits the battlefield of Gettysburg. There were large revivals in both the North and The South during that war and we did survive as a nation but the downward slope away from God began again after the dust had settled, and we are almost exponentially more rebellious of a people today than we were in the 1850s.
A little over forty years ago the Christian community in America was awakened once again as to God's warnings to not only us but the entire world. These warnings were only in bits and pieces and much of it contained error in the specifics but much of it was also very sound and straightforward. Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth was significant in that it set the stage for multitudes to begin to think about the literal judgement of God upon a wicked world. Billy Graham's 1985 Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was significant in that it was based on biblical warnings rather than speculations. He wrote of those hoofbeats....."They come as a warning, and grow louder by the day." Today those hoofbeats sound like steel hoofs clamoring over giant copper cymbals.
In my personal opinion I can see four very specific and very egregious evolutions if you will in our rebellion against Almighty God. In the first we legislated God out of our schoolrooms. Our children would now not only be prohibited from reverencing God in their education but God would be outright ridiculed by many authority figures in their lives. In the second we were given the right through Roe v Wade to destroy our children in the womb before they could impinge upon our lifestyles simply by being born. Third, we turned the children over to the merchants and profiteers, many of them unscrupulous and some predators, almost totally free of oversight as to how their products would affect the children and ultimately affect society through a generation raised on instant gratification and self-esteem. Fourth, the subterfuge of same-sex marriage is viewed as compassion and fairness rather than what it really is, a bold final assault on our children's belief in God! Many polls show the effectiveness of the deceit, not only by the mainstream liberal churches but much of evangelicalism itself. We are choosing politics, our paychecks, our pensions and our entertainments.......over our children and over God's commands.
The warnings to us were always there in God's Word but they appeared in a different medium four decades ago with almost as shocking an affect to many as did a stomach acid bleached prophet of God.... vomited out of a giant fish, but Jonah's appearance pales in relation to the message given by Nahum of certain coming judgement. I encourage you to read these three short chapters of the Book of Nahum and meditate upon what God had done before. If it does unnerve you, as it should, there is always the seventh verse of the first chapter to at least store away...."The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows who trusts in Him."
