While it is fashionable and generally inoffensive—as well as correct—to speak of God as being a God of love, it is incorrect to neglect the equal truth that God is holy and just and therefore a God of judgment.

It is the balance between the demonstration of God’s mercy and grace, and his holiness and justice displayed in judgment against sin, that is the theme of both the book of Jonah and the book of Nahum in which the Assyrian Empire and its capital city of Ninevah are the case study.

Given the natural proclivity for sin of every human being and the prospect of divine judgment against our sin, a logical question arises:  How can I possibly withhold the trouble looming before me when I face God in judgment?

We will consider this troubling question and the comforting answer in this second and concluding study of the book of Nahum in the two-part series, “Nahum:  Good News, Bad News.”

So, let’s open the Bible to Nahum chapter three for this episode entitled, “A Stronghold in the Day of Trouble.” 

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