Week 31 Nahum
I read Nahum today. Nahum’s prophecy was an international forecast, written to Nineveh.
A couple of days ago I read Jonah’s story. He had a Nineveh interest too. He’d predicted that a catastrophe would hit the Assyrian capital in forty days but it turned out that the prophecy didn’t come true because the people believed Jonah and got a reprieve.
It’s many years later now. Jonah’s forty-days came and went many times over. Dozens of times. Maybe hundreds. Long enough ago that the Ninevites came full circle, decided to repent of their repentance. Now their time had come.
Nahum says: the Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. Which are three pretty important things to know about the Lord.
Note: quote from Nahum 1:3 (NLT). Bible-reading note for July: in my bible the OT has 1334 pages. As of today I still have to read Ecclesiastes, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi in the OT – which is a total of about 36 pages. So on July 31 I’ve read 1298 pages, about 75% of the bible. July 2020 was a kind of ragged and distracting month for me so I’m satisfied with the 75% (even though finishing those last 36 pages would have been a nice way to end the month.)