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==Message==

==Message==

The book stands as a warning and foretaste of God’s judgment on all: it is delayed but it is inevitable. Elsewhere in the Bible the mercy of God is emphasised, although never overlooking His moral attitude towards [[sin]], but here it is His judgment that is emphasised. "This book is a reminder that however dark things may appear, however powerful the enemies of God might seem, they are not so powerful that they will last for ever. One day, sooner than any might think, they will crumble and collapse. But God will go on for ever. And this judgment comes on one who has offered false pleasures to a sinful world. It has multiplied businessmen and accountants. It has offered sexual perversion and sinful pleasures. It has grown great in trade, and accumulated power. But it has forgotten God. And in that is its downfall. This was one of the times when God’s judgment was revealed in its full awesomeness on a nation which believed itself invulnerable, and the prophet spells it out clearly and in some detail so that we might truly absorb it. God is love, but He is also light, and where His love does not prevail only the consequences of His sin-revealing light remains. And that, unless we repent, leads only to judgment."<ref>Dr Peter Pett BA BD (Hons-London) DD ''A Commentary On Nahum the Prophet''  

The book stands as a warning and foretaste of God’s judgment on all: it is delayed but it is inevitable. Elsewhere in the Bible the mercy of God is emphasised, although never overlooking His moral attitude towards [[sin]], but here it is His judgment that is emphasised. "This book is a reminder that however dark things may appear, however powerful the enemies of God might seem, they are not so powerful that they will last for ever. One day, sooner than any might think, they will crumble and collapse. But God will go on for ever. And this judgment comes on one who has offered false pleasures to a sinful world. It has multiplied businessmen and accountants. It has offered sexual perversion and sinful pleasures. It has grown great in trade, and accumulated power. But it has forgotten God. And in that is its downfall. This was one of the times when God’s judgment was revealed in its full awesomeness on a nation which believed itself invulnerable, and the prophet spells it out clearly and in some detail so that we might truly absorb it. God is love, but He is also light, and where His love does not prevail only the consequences of His sin-revealing light remains. And that, unless we repent, leads only to judgment."<ref>Dr Peter Pett BA BD (Hons-London) DD ''A Commentary On Nahum the Prophet''</ref>

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