Prophets - Nahum [The Prophet] - Joseph Shulam 

Prophets - Nahum [The Prophet]: God’s Wrath and Mercy - Joseph Shulam
Nahum has only three chapters, not very long chapters. But why do I always look for two themes when I study the Bible, and especially the prophets? I'm trying to understand God how God works, what makes him happy, what makes him sad what makes him blow his top and get angry and punish sometimes awful punishments of individuals and of nations.
Nahum is a unique book, three chapters, but very unique chapters because there is no condemnation of Israel as a nation or the Jewish people as the people in the prophet Nahum. All of Nahum's prophecies are about the empires around us: the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, Egypt all figure in Nahum's very, very strong and harsh condemnation of our big neighbors. In fact, the book starts with the words in English, New King James version, the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite. Burden against Nineveh. The word burden in Hebrew is "massah". You could call it the burden. You could call it campaign against Nineveh. And that's a strange beginning from all the prophets, from Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, all the prophets, a strange beginning, but right from the very beginning it tells us that the book deals with our northern neighbor, Nineveh.
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