Thursday, April 13, 2017

Lesson of Nahum's Prophecy

"Our discovery of panels depicting Assyria’s war with Egypt in 663
BC help us to appreciate the warning of Nahum’s prophecy, that Assyria’s capital at Nineveh was no safer than Thebes (“No-Amon,” Egypt’s impenetrable capital, which Assyria had sacked). Seeing images and reading descriptions of this historical event helps us to imagine the weight of the prophecy in Nahum 3:8–10. Nobody can escape God’s judgment, no matter how high their walls and strong their defenses."
AIG
 
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
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 honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Nahum 3:9,10