Nahum

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Nahum

• Your wounds cannot be healed (319)

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Chronology
Judah Prophets Israel
931 BC Rehoboam Jeroboam
Abijah Nadab
900 BC Asa Baasha
850 BC Jehoshaphat Elijah Zimri, Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Joram
800 BC Jehoram, Ahaziah, Queen Athaliah, Joash Elisha Jonah Amos Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam II
750 BC Amaziah Uzziah Ahaz Hosea Micah Isaiah Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah
722 BC Hezekiah Isaiah Pekah, Hoshea
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King Prophet
650 Manasseh
Amon Nahum
Josiah Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Ezekiel
Joahaz
600 Jehoiakim 605 1st invasion (Daniel)
Jehoiachin 597 2nd invasion (Ezekiel)
586 Zedekiah 586 3rd invasion (Jeremiah)


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Nahum

• This is a message about Nineveh, the account of
  a vision seen by Nahum, who was from Elkosh.
  (Nahum 11) 612 BC Nineveh destroyed
• One day the LORD spoke to JonahHe said, Go to
  Nineveh, that great city, and speak out against
  it I am aware of how wicked its people are.
  (Jonah 11-2) 783-743 BC

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• Jonah was furious. He lost his temper. He yelled
  at God, God! I knew itwhen I was back home, I
  knew this was going to happen! Thats why I ran
  off to Tarshish! I knew you were sheer grace and
  mercy, not easily angered, rich in love, and
  ready at the drop of a hat to turn your plans of
  punishment into a program of forgiveness! So,
  God, if you wont kill them, kill me! Im better
  off dead! (Jonah 41-3 The Message)

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• For God loved the world so much that he gave his
  only Son (John 316)
• My heart cries out for Moab! (Isaiah 155)
• The LORD says, People of Israel, I think as
  much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I
  brought the Philistines from Crete and the
  Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from
  Egypt. (Amos 97)
• Turn to me now and be saved, people all over the
  world! (Isaiah 4522)
• Roman officer I tell you, I have never found
  faith like this, not even in Israel! (Luke 79)
• Canaanite woman You are a woman of great
  faith! (Matthew 1528)

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• Listen to me it is true that there were many
  widows in Israel during the time of Elijah, when
  there was no rain for three and a half years and
  a severe famine spread throughout the whole land.
  Yet Elijah was not sent to anyone in Israel, but
  only to a widow living in Zarephath in the
  territory of Sidon. And there were many people
  suffering from a dreaded skin disease who lived
  in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha
  yet not one of them was healed, but only Naaman
  the Syrian. When the people in the synagogue
  heard this, they were filled with anger. They
  rose up, dragged Jesus out of town, and took him
  to the top of the hill on which their town was
  built. They meant to throw him over the cliff
  (Luke 425-29)

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• The LORD is good he protects his people in
  times of trouble he takes care of those who turn
  to him. Like a great rushing flood he completely
  destroys his enemies he sends to their death
  those who oppose him. (Nahum 17-8)
• Nineveh was besieged, conquered, and sacked by
  the allied forces of Medes, Scythians,
  Babylonians, and Susianians. King Sin-shar-ishkun
  of Assyria was killed in the sack.

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• Nineveh, you are under attack! The power that
  will shatter you has come. Prepare the defenses!
  Guard the road! Prepare for battle!...The enemy
  soldiers carry red shields and wear uniforms of
  red. They are preparing to attack! Their chariots
  flash like fire! Their horses prance! Chariots
  dash wildly through the streets, rushing back and
  forth in the city squares. They flash like
  torches and dart about like lightning. The
  officers are summoned they stumble as they press
  forward. The attackers rush to the wall and set
  up the shield for the battering ram. (Nahum
  21-5)

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• I am your enemy! says the LORD Almighty. I
  will burn up your chariots. Your soldiers will be
  killed in war, and I will take away everything
  that you took from others. The demands of your
  envoys will no longer be heard. The LORD
  Almighty says, I will punish you, Nineveh! I
  will strip you naked and let the nations see you,
  see you in all your shame. (Nahum 213, 35)

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• Jonah started through the city, and after
  walking a whole day, he proclaimed, In forty
  days Nineveh will be destroyed! (Jonah 34)

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Terminal Diagnosis

• Emperor of Assyria, your governors are dead, and
  your noblemen are asleep forever! Your people are
  scattered on the mountains, and there is no one
  to bring them home again. (Nahum 318)
• There is no remedy for your injuries, and your
  wounds cannot be healed. All those who hear the
  news of your destruction clap their hands for
  joy. Did anyone escape your endless cruelty?
  (Nahum 319)

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• Israel
• I wanted to heal Israel, but its sins were far
  too great. Samaria is filled with liars, thieves,
  and bandits! (Hosea 71 NLT)

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Chronology
Judah Prophets Israel
931 BC Rehoboam Jeroboam
Abijah Nadab
900 BC Asa Baasha
850 BC Jehoshaphat Elijah Zimri, Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Joram
800 BC Jehoram, Ahaziah, Queen Athaliah, Joash Elisha Jonah Amos Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam II
750 BC Amaziah Uzziah Ahaz Hosea Micah Isaiah Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah
722 BC Hezekiah Isaiah Pekah, Hoshea
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• Judah
• The LORD God of their ancestors repeatedly sent
  messages through his messengers because he wanted
  to spare his people and his dwelling place. But
  they mocked Gods messengers, despised his words,
  and made fun of his prophets until the LORD
  became angry with his people. He could no longer
  heal them (2 Chronicles 3615,16).
• Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no
  doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been
  healed? (Jeremiah 822 GN).
• The Lord says to his people, Your wounds are
  incurable, your injuries cannot be healed. There
  is no one to take care of you, no remedy for your
  sores, no hope of healing for you. (Jeremiah
  301213 GN).

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• Babylon
• Babylon will suddenly fall and be shattered. Cry
  for it. Bring medicine for its pain. Maybe it can
  be healed. We wanted to heal Babylon, but it
  couldnt be healed. Lets abandon it and go to
  our own land. God has judged Babylon. Its
  judgment is complete. (Jeremiah 518,9)

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• Egypt
• People of Egypt, go to Gilead and look for
  medicine! All your medicine has proved useless
  nothing can heal you. (Jeremiah 4612)

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Jews

• So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them This
  people will listen and listen, but not
  understand they will look and look, but not see,
  because their minds are dull, and they have
  stopped up their ears and have closed their eyes.
  Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would
  hear, their minds would understand, and they
  would turn to me, says God, and I would heal
  them. (Matthew 1314-15)

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Forgiveness
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Forgiveness and Healing
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• She Mary will give birth to a son, and you are
  to give him the name Jesus, because he will save
  (sozo) his people from their sins. (Matthew
  121)
• salvation, heal/healing, wholeness, restore,
  deliver, recover, unbroken.

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• The woman with a bleeding disorder for twelve
  years.
• "No one could heal (therapeuo) her." (Luke 843)
  "therapeutic"
• "In the presence of all the people, she told why
  she had touched him and how she had been
  instantly healed (iaomai)." (Luke 847) - to be
  cured of a physical illness
• "Daughter, your faith has healed (sozo) you. Go
  in peace." (Luke 848) - Not merely medically
  treated. Transformation, wholeness, unbroken,
  spiritual healing.

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• For it is by God's grace that you have been
  saved (healed) through faith (trust). (Ephesians
  28)

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• In Luke 5 a paralytic man is lowered through the
  roof into Jesus' presence. Jesus does not say
  "Be healed," or "Get up and walk." Instead he
  points out the healing significance of salvation
  by saying "Friend, your sins are forgiven." (Luke
  520 NIV). Salvation is the healing of the sin
  damage. But the Pharisees are incensed, and ask
  "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can
  forgive sins but God alone?" (Luke 521 NIV).
  True enough. Only God can forgive sins. But as
  Jesus wanted to point out, their view was one of
  the need for legal forgiveness in order to
  receive God's blessings. An exterior kind of
  work, a ritualized concept of salvation.

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• But Jesus points them back to what salvation
  really is by saying to them '"Why are you
  thinking these things in your hearts? Which is
  easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to
  say, 'Get up and walk'? But that you may know
  that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
  forgive sins...." He said to the paralyzed man,
  "I tell you, get up, take up your mat and go
  home."' (Luke 522-24 NIV). In the Pharisees'
  minds which was easier? To heal or to forgive
  sins? Obviously they could handle Jesus as "just
  another miracle worker who heals" but not as
  someone who went around forgiving sins.

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• They, the Pharisees, had developed a very
  meticulous set of rules and regulations for
  achieving forgiveness. Their idea of salvation
  was of strict observance to the ceremonies and
  rituals. So when someone comes around saying he
  is able to forgive sins, that "blows their
  minds". For salvation as healing is not part of
  their concept of how God works to restore people
  to himself. Salvation, they think, has to come
  "through the proper channels". There are rigid
  requirements to achieve this salvation, and
  which, if legalistically obeyed, will ensure
  success. So how can this "faith healer" promise
  forgiveness of sins? How?

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• Because he is God, and because his salvation is
  healing, not rigid observance of outward
  requirements. An inherently non-legal process.
  Blasphemy to those who saw the achieving of legal
  forgiveness as the essential part of salvation!
  Which is what led to Jesus' death. He "bucked the
  system", he "blasphemed God", and it was "better
  that one man die for the sake of the people" (see
  John 1149) than the whole national system of
  achieving salvation be destroyed.
• Salvation as Healing, Jonathan Gallagher

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Does forgiveness going to heaven

• The LORD said to Moses, How much longer will
  these people reject me? How much longer will they
  refuse to trust in me, even though I have
  performed so many miracles among them? (Numbers
  1411 GN)
• The Lord answered, I will forgive them, as you
  have asked. But I promise that as surely as I
  live and as surely as my presence fills the
  earth, none of these people will live to enter
  that land. They have seen the dazzling light of
  my presence and the miracles that I performed in
  Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried
  my patience over and over again and have refused
  to obey me. They will never enter the land which
  I promised to their ancestors. None of those who
  have rejected me will ever enter it (Numbers
  1420-23).

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• Jesus
• Forgive them, Father! (Luke 2334 - GN).
• When the captain there saw what happened, he
  honored God This man was innocent! A good man,
  and innocent! All who had come around as
  spectators to watch the show, when they saw what
  actually happened, were overcome with grief and
  headed home. (Luke 2347,48 The Message)

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• Do you have contempt for God, who is very kind
  to you, puts up with you, and deals patiently
  with you? Don't you realize that it is God's
  kindness that is trying to lead you to him and
  change the way you think and act? (Romans 24
  GW)

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• So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them This
  people will listen and listen, but not
  understand they will look and look, but not see,
  because their minds are dull, and they have
  stopped up their ears and have closed their eyes.
  Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would
  hear, their minds would understand, and they
  would turn to me, says God, and I would heal
  them. (Matthew 1314-15)

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• And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the
  glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
  same image from one degree of glory to another.
  (2 Corinthians 318 ESV)

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• We know that when Christ appears, we shall be
  like him, because we shall see him as he really
  is. (1 John 32)

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• Yes, may you come to know his love although it
  can never be fully known and so be completely
  filled with the very nature of God. (Ephesians
  319)

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• And now I give you a new commandment love one
  another. As I have loved you, so you must love
  one another. (John 1334)

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The unpardonable sin

• Then some people brought to Jesus a man who was
  blind and could not talk because he had a demon.
  Jesus healed the man, so that he was able to talk
  and see. The crowds were all amazed at what Jesus
  had done. Could he be the Son of David? they
  asked. When the Pharisees heard this, they
  replied, He drives out demons only because their
  ruler Beelzebul gives him power to do so.
  (Matthew 1222-24)

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• No, it is not Beelzebul, but God's Spirit, who
  gives me the power to drive out demons, which
  proves that the Kingdom of God has already come
  upon youI tell you people can be forgiven any
  sin and any evil thing they say but whoever says
  evil things against the Holy Spirit will not be
  forgiven. Anyone who says something against the
  Son of Man can be forgiven but whoever says
  something against the Holy Spirit will not be
  forgiven---now or ever. (Matthew 1228-32)

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• Look, the home of God is now among his people!
  He will live with them, and they will be his
  people. God himself will be with themOn each
  side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing
  twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each
  month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal
  the nationsThe throne of God and of the Lamb
  will be there, and his servants will worship him.
  And they will see his face, and his name
  (character) will be written on their foreheads.
  And there will be no night there and no need for
  lamps or sun for the Lord God will shine on
  them. (Revelation 213 222-5)

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• They couldn't take their eyes off them--Peter
  and John standing there so confident, so sure of
  themselves! Their fascination deepened when they
  realized these two were laymen with no training
  in Scripture or formal education. They recognized
  them as companions of Jesus (Acts 413 MSG)

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• It is growth in knowledge of the character of
  Christ that sanctifies the soul. To discern and
  appreciate the wonderful work of the atonement,
  transforms him who contemplates the plan of
  salvation. By beholding Christ, he becomes
  changed into the same image, from glory to glory,
  as by the Spirit of the Lord. The beholding of
  Jesus becomes an ennobling, refining process to
  the actual Christian. He sees the Pattern, and
  grows into its likeness, and then how easily are
  dissensions, emulations, and strife adjusted. The
  perfection of Christs character is the
  Christians inspiration. When we see him as he
  is, desire awakes to be like him, and this
  elevates the whole man... That I May Know Him
  pg. 166