00:00 Have You Listened to Albert Mohler's Briefing Podcast

00:28 Listener Questions: Millennial Kingdom and Resurrection

04:42 Exploring the Book of Nahum

07:13 The Justice and Holiness of God

13:21 Conclusion and Prayer

14:01 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Happy Monday and welcome to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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I hope today you're

tuning into the briefing.

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I trust that it's back today.

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I was expecting it on the first last week.

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Me too.

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I was checking out, refreshing,

and it didn't show up.

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I know.

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I was so mad, disappointed.

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Disheartened, I owe my podcast

provider, which is, I use overcast

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an apology because I thought

maybe they're just behind.

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Maybe they're not syncing

up with the stream.

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But no, I think it's just

that it's not back yet.

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I was disappointed.

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Yeah, me too.

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Me too.

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Hey, I mentioned we got

a couple other questions.

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Let's deal with with another one.

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Matthew.

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We're gonna get to yours tomorrow.

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Matthew, just as you're listening, know

that we're gonna get to yours tomorrow.

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And so it was a great question.

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We're gonna hit that.

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But Lily and Kim, she sent in a

question and she wanted to know this.

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She said with the millennial kingdom we've

been talking about the millennial kingdom

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being a place where there is still sin.

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And so because there is still sin, there

is still the wages of sin, which is death.

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So the question she asked, which

is always which is insightful, I

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think is if there's physical debt,

they're in the millennial kingdom.

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Where do the believing individuals

who die, go when they die?

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Do they go to where

Christians normally go?

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If the Christian were to die today,

and this one's one of those, really

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it's harder to answer than just saying

yeah, they go to be in, in heaven

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because to be absent from the body.

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Is to be present with the Lord.

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In the millennial kingdom the

Lord is at least the person of

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Jesus Christ is reigning on earth

during the millennial kingdom.

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And so there's, in the Bible

there's two resurrections.

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So I'm gonna give it my best

guess, my best shot here.

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And then pr, I'd love to

get your thoughts on it too.

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The first resurrection happens concurrent

with the rapture of the church.

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The saints, the believers, they receive

their glorified bodies at that point.

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And then we, during the millennial

kingdom, in our glorified

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bodies are reigning with Christ.

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And so believers that have already died

and received their glorified bodies, they

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won't die during the millennial kingdom.

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They won't sin during

the millennial kingdom.

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We will be.

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With Jesus, and we will

be in our glorified state.

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There's a second resurrection that

happens at the great white throne, and

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that is where the unbelievers, those

that have rejected God, those that

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have rejected the gospel, and Jesus,

they will be resurrected to receive

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their resurrected bodies at that point.

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And those are going to be bodies that

are prepared for the lake of fire,

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which is the eternal place of torment

for those that have rejected God.

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So you've got these two resurrections.

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The great white throne

happens after it's the second.

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Resurrection happens after

the first resurrection, which

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happens at the the rapture.

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So in between the millennial kingdom,

I don't believe, and maybe I'm wrong

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on this, I don't believe that they're

gonna die and then immediately receive

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the resurrected bodies and take their

seats next to the glorified saints.

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Maybe they will.

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It's possible that they may die

and go to be in the presence of

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the father, and that perhaps that.

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Part of the second resurrection is that

they will receive their resurrected

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bodies during the second resurrection.

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We know during the tribulation period,

which is a point of time when believers

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will die, that they go to be before the

throne because Revelation depicts that

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there's the, those that are calling out

for justice saying When are we gonna

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be avenge those that die for their

faith during the tribulation period

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that precedes the millennial kingdom.

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But we do know that during that

period of time they don't receive the

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resurrected bodies yet after they die,

they go to be in the presence of God.

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And so my guess is that there's a

similar resting place for those that

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died during the millennial kingdom

until the new heavens and new Earth

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are inaugurated and they will receive

the resurrected bodies at that point.

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I could also go along with the fact

that they receive them immediately

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and go to terrain next to the

believers at that point too.

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I think what you're pointing out is that.

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The text doesn't tell us explicitly, yes.

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We don't know.

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That's a short answer.

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We don't know it's either gonna be during

the actual millennial end of Christ

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that they are given immediate, glorified

bodies or at some time afterward.

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We just don't know.

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We're speculating, we're

guessing either works.

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I could see both making sense

chronologically and even theologically.

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I could see people being glorified

during that thousand years and,

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in experiencing that trans, that

translation and that transformation,

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immediately what I could also see that

God would wait and would desire to

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do things in a need and orderly way.

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Short answer is, I don't know.

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Everything you said sounds good.

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I don't have a firm answer on that.

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I'd like to believe that there made.

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Glorified instantaneously.

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You die and you really don't die.

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But then why is death even

necessary at that point?

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Could Jesus just not speak a word

and say, you're glorified now.

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There's so many questions that I have.

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It's a great question, Lily, and I

think, I'm glad that you're thinking

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in those ways, but there's just so

few answers for us that are explicit

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regarding that time, that timeframe.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's part of the secret

things that belong to God.

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But it's exciting things though.

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We'll get to witness it at

some point, which is really

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cool to think about as well.

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Let's jump into Nahum today.

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We've gone through Nahum.

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One of the books that we covered this

summer during our minor profits series.

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The author is the title of the book.

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It's the Prophet Nahum, and

he's going to address nine us.

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So this is a lot of ways, Jonah, part two

and it's not as good for the Assyrians

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as Jonah was not by a long shot.

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Ham's name means comfort.

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The region that he's from is a re

town called Elko, which is really.

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Generally unknown, but likely part of

Judah given the date of writing here.

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And as he's addressing Nineveh,

it, it seems that this is still for

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Judah and that's how I preached it,

at least when I went through it.

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But I don't believe that Nahum

is going to the Assyrians.

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Preaching to them the way that Jonah did.

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I believe this is a message that is from

God announcing the judgment that is coming

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upon the inhabitants there of Assyria and

he's comforting the people of Judah 'cause

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remember what we've just been studying in

these other books and Second Chronicles

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and Second Kings, the Assyrians.

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Have been coming against God's people.

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The Assyrians were

laying siege to the city.

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Akra was blaspheming, God,

the rabbis Shaka was as well.

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So you've got all of these things taking

place here and the book of Naham slots in

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here to remind God's people that God is a

God of justice and they can take comfort

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in knowing that he will judge and he will.

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Even as verse three says, by

no means clear the guilty.

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And so it's a book about judgment, but

it's also a book of comfort because

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it's there to comfort God's people as

Nahum announces the impending judgment

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that's going to befall the Assyrians,

and that's ultimately gonna happen in the

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year six 12 BC as Nebuchadnezzar and the

Babylonian forces are going to fulfill

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God's prophecy by putting an end to the

Assyrian people and to Nineveh itself.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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It's probably best to understand this as.

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About Assyria, but for Judah to comfort

them that God is in fact a just God.

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And I can imagine there's times in our

life, even our lives, where we would be

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comforted by the fact that God is just,

and no one's going to escape his justice.

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It's hard for us to put ourselves

in their sandals because we don't

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understand the same kind of pressures

and stresses that they felt.

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But if we do, just take a breath here.

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Given how.

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Heavy Nhem can feel.

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And by the way, the, his name I

think fits with this book he's in.

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It's intending to provide comfort to

God's people about what God's going to do.

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Now, nhem, by the way, just

in case you're wondering, is

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a shortened form of Nehemiah.

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So if you hear the similarity

there, it's because they're related.

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They're related in the, in their words.

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Anyway, my point is justice is a

comforting truth for Christians when

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we recognize that God is going to

do always what is right and good,

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no matter what that looks like.

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It's hard for us to read some

of these words that he keeps

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his wrath for his enemies that

he's an avenger, he's wrathful.

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Those are true things about God.

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It's what we were talking about yesterday.

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We don't understand like the love

of God until we understand the

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justice and the judgment of God.

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And so this is important for

us to recognize as we see

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the world around us broken.

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We see injustice, we see things

that are broken in terms of

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our relations with one another.

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There are people in high ranking positions

that continue to get away with evil.

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There are evil things being

done against the weakest and

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the most vulnerable among us.

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There's always evil being perpetuated.

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And so something like this, as

heavy as it is also a great comfort

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to Christians who are saying,

Maratha, come quickly, Lord Jesus.

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So mayhem isn't comforting, is

comforting to those who are longing

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for his return, which I think

encapsulates all of us really.

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Yeah, and it's really the answer I, it's.

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It's interesting that Habakkuk comes

right after this because Habakkuk

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was God saying, I'm gonna use

this evil people to judge Judah.

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And Habakkuk was saying, wait

a minute, you can't do that.

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And that's some of the tension that's

resolved by Nahum because God then

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answers Habakkuk to say, it's gonna

be okay, I'm gonna judge them as well.

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Justice is gonna be done and Nahum

is about, okay, justice is gonna

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be done against the Assyrians here.

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Yeah, this is this is something that is,

even to your point it's not something

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that we often associate with that.

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But if you look at verse 15 of chapter

one, behold upon the mountains, the feet

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of him who brings good news and publishes

peace, the good news in the peace is

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about the destruction of Assyria and

the Ninevites were going to receive.

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In recompense what they

had dolled out to others.

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And that's, he's talking

about that in chapter three.

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That's why he introduces

in verse eight, thieves.

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Thieves was the capital city

of Egypt, and Thieves had been

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defeated by the Assyrians.

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And so God is saying, Hey, you

took down thieves, but do you think

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you're any better than thieves?

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And he goes in and in verse 10 is in

particular, pretty graphic to describe

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some of the things that they had done to

these Egyptians when they conquered them.

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And God was basically saying to the ass,

Syrians, as you have done to others.

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So it will be done to you that

you're gonna receive retribution

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for the things that you have done.

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And the book is sobering in its

conclusion when he says in verse 19.

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There's no easing your hurt.

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Your wound is grievous all who

hear the news about you, clap their

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hands over you for upon whom has

not come, your unceasing evil.

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And so God is telling Assyria,

you're gonna go down and nobody's

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gonna be upset about this, and

nobody's gonna mourn for you.

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And so it was a sobering

message, but again not one of.

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A, a call for repentance.

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You'll notice it's not there.

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You can read through the book and

it's not a call for them to return.

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It's not a call for them, like

in Jonah to leave off their sins.

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This was, the it's done.

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And that's a sobering reminder

too, because that day is

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coming for all of mankind.

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There's a moment that is coming

where it's too late, where you can.

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Repent.

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You can't return.

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Where really what it is at that point is

God is announcing justice, he's announcing

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judgment, and that judgment is sure, and

that judgment is gonna be unrelenting

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and that judgment is irreversible.

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And so this is a book that should

sober us even as Christians, to

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remember as we consider the lost

in our lives, that right now is the

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time that we can go to them as Jonah.

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Because eventually there's gonna

come a time where they're gonna

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hear the judgment of God as it's

revealed in the Book of Nahum.

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So it's a, an evangelist evangelistic

motivation, hopefully as well for

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us to say, let's get after calling

people to return to the Lord

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while there's still time to seek

him, while he may still be found.

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I would also add too, that this book.

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Reminds us that God is not a God, as

you said recently to be trifled with.

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He's not a God that you

should look down upon.

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We're not to be cavalier with him.

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God's godness is what demands that we

have a high view of him and this is why

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we don't like, we're not comfortable

with things that make God appear more

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lowly or familiar than what he is.

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We don't refer to him as

daddy God, we don't say things

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like, Jesus is my homeboy.

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It's not that there's anything

inherently wrong with those.

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We would not say that's a sin per

se, but we would say it communicate

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something about God that we

don't think best encapsulates

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what scripture says about him.

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He's a high holy God.

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There is a right sense

in which we fear him.

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Again, we clarify.

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It's not a cile fear as though

we're shaking in our boots.

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It's a loving fear, an adoration,

an admiration of respect, a healthy

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kind of robust awareness of his

position, his power, and his authority.

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It's not too dissimilar, from the way that

you tell your kids to interact with fire.

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We love fire.

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We appreciate the effects, the

benefits that we derive from it,

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but we don't let our kids play

with their toys around the pilots.

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We don't let our kids, hang out

around the fireplace when the fire

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is roaring or even with a gun.

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We don't let our kids play with

guns and say, yeah go for it.

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Hang out with it.

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Call it your toy or whatever else,

and just shoot it any way you want.

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We understand those things when

it comes to physical objects where

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we could potentially be physically

damaged and there is a spiritual

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undoing that can happen when you

encounter the holiness of Gods.

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The Isaiah chapter six, and so therefore

we interact with him aware of as.

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Scripture says the kindness

and severity of God.

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There is a kindness to him that is

irresistible, beautiful, so attractive,

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and there's also a severity, a recognition

that he is not a God who is a toy.

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You can't play with him and say,

I want you to be part of my life

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here, but not part of my life there.

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He's a high holy and.

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Blazing in his beauty, in his glory,

kind of God, but we don't take lightly.

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And so Naham is a really good

reminder of the heaviness,

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the weightiness of his glory.

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It's not just all good.

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There is also a sharp, jagged side

to his holiness that demands justice.

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And that's why it's so amazing that we

get to do week in and week out, what

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we got to do yesterday and what we're,

if he tarries and we're still here.

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What we're gonna do next Sunday too,

that we get to gather and come before

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him corporately and sing to him and sing

songs expressing such intimacy before him.

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It's this juxtaposition that is, is

so sweet to us as believers when we

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really understand it, that should

just fuel our worship even more

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and cause us to love it even more.

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And desire to be in his presence all

the more, and to be with his people

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all the more, it's a, yeah, he's a

kind and severe God at the same time.

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And that's a difficult line to, to

try to walk, but it's one that we.

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That's what the Christian life is

figuring out what that looks like.

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Let's pray and then we will be

done with the Book of Nahum.

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God we thank you for that reality

that though you are severe, you

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are holy, you are righteous.

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We get in your kindness, your

grace and mercy to approach you.

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I pray that we wouldn't ever treat that.

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Too casually that we wouldn't take

that for granted or look down upon

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it with contempt Lord, but instead

that we would trust you and we would

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revere you, and that we would praise

you, and that we would honor you as we

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should every single day of our lives.

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Lord, give us opportunities

to call the lost around us to

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repent before it's too late.

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And God, give us the winsomeness as a

church body to make an impact here in the

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lives of those that still need to bow the

need of Jesus Christ as the Lord's Savior.

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So we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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