Nahum 2
Destroy your Pride!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, September 26.
The pride of Assyria was Nineveh, their capital city, which was where the royal den resided, filled with the children of the royal family. The Assyrians were a massive military complex, and they loved lions, seeing themselves as a powerful and sleek people, seeking their next victim to devour (Isaiah 5:29-30; Jeremiah 50:17; cf. 1 Peter 5:8). After causing much suffering and distress, God destroyed the pride of Assyria, bringing judgment upon Nineveh, which the prophet appropriately described in Nahum 2:11-13:
Where is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled, with nothing to disturb them? The lion tore enough for his cubs, killed enough for his lionesses, and filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh. “Behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord of hosts. “I will burn up her chariots in smoke, a sword will devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard.”
Interestingly, the voice of the Assyrian messenger being alluded to here was most likely Rabshakeh’s, remembering his blasphemous words at the gate of Jerusalem in 2 Kings 18:28-35, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. … Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?” In response to the messenger, Isaiah the prophet comforted Hezekiah, the king of Judah, with a promise from God, to protect Jerusalem from King Sennacherib, who soon thereafter died at the hands of his cubs in the lion’s den of Nineveh (2 Kings 19), proving that “God is opposed to the proud, but He gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6).
Seize the moment and destroy your pride – “Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you” (James 4:10).
God bless you!
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