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The Book of Nahum – Chapter 2:1-13 

[Aired March 1, 20 25]

Interestingly, in the first study of the Book of Jonah, Nineveh repented in dust and ashes, yet paradoxically, the Lord in Nahum now appears merciless in her destruction. Nineveh, that ‘great city’ within, reflects our spiritually stubborn nature; we are fundamentally corruptible beings, incapable of sustaining obedience without His spirit. Our Lord strikingly reflects our complete spiritual rejection of Him through every biblical character’s catastrophic and positive experiences.

We are that Great City Nineveh the Lord is mercifully destroying in answer to our Nineveh-like fast of repentance — just because we fast and repent doesn’t halt the sword from utterly destroying our former old man. That understanding and humility advance the new Great City, Jerusalem, within.

Significations:  The Destruction of Nineveh

Nah 2:1  He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition [siege-works; stronghold; rampart], watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 

It is Christ who dashes to pieces our impudence by sustaining immense trials; his ‘siege works’ against our old man as we maintain our ‘siege works’ of self-righteousness against him. If we are being dragged to him, our Christ-given ‘siege works’, in a positive sense, strengthen our resolve against Satan’s siege works, all designed to strengthen the spiritual walk signified by our “loins.”

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15  And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Eph 6:19  And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
Eph 6:20  For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. 

Nah 2:2  For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency [= rising power; majesty] of Israel: for the emptiers [empty; lay waste] have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 

Deu 33:26  There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun [= upright one 1. a symbolic name for Israel], who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
Deu 33:27  The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

Job 13:11  Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

Psa 47:4  He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. 

Our Lord appears to turn away his ‘excellency’ from us when we see boiling waves threatening to swamp our ship, and we cry out in our distress. He is the ’emptier’ who seems heavy-handed in pruning our vines to bare stumps. His “excellency” is in recreating the New Adam within for him to reap his inheritance in his Saints.

The Elect of God is as He is, drenched in the blood from killing every false doctrine; our shields of faith bloodied in protection from the Devil’s machinations. We shake as a fir tree in a mighty wind for what the Lord is doing in the hearts and minds of His very own. 

The Elect are the Lord’s fiery chariots, conveying his fiery words guaranteed to flood the Devil’s formerly delicious lies with fire far more consuming than his strange fire (Lev 10:1-7).

Exo 14:7  And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 
Exo 14:8  And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.

Jos 11:6  And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

Hag 2:22  And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. 

Nah 2:3  The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. 
Nah 2:4  The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. 

Babylon’s chariots represent our vehicles of self-righteousness, ignorantly raging in the broad streets of that Great City, Nineveh, collectively with Egypt, Sodom, and Old Jerusalem as Babylon each Sunday in Christendom. We burn their entire doctrinal ‘jostling’ of skin, flesh, head, legs, inward parts, and dung as a sin offering without the camp of the heavenly Jerusalem today.

Lev 4:12  Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt. 

Isa 21:3  Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 
Isa 21:4  My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Isa 21:5  Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint [= smear, anoint, spread a liquid – {blood}] the shield. 

Zec 9:14  And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

Eze 1:12  And they [Christ’s Elect, the sons of God] went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Eze 1:13  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 
Eze 1:14  And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

Nah 2:5  He shall recount his worthies [His Elect]: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. 

The Lord’s first spiritually born sons, preceding their brothers, are guaranteed to stumble in trials to prove their value, hopefully as gold, as they run forward into battle, destroying the walls of Old Jerusalem to rebuild the New within. The “defence” initially is the Devil defending his own, and we similarly, yet in truth, defend ourselves in Christ’s strength against Satan. In winning the battle, our Lord opens a floodgate of spiritual revelations as the waters overflow and wash away every hidden lie from the nook and crannies of our high places, enthroned where we do not belong.

Isa 28:16  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone [Christ], a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. 
Isa 28:17  Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 

Nah 2:6  The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace [Temple] shall be dissolved.
Nah 2:7  And Huzzab [to stand, take one’s stand, stand upright, be set (over)], shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. 

We, the Bride, are the Temple of the living God. Firstly, as a temple of harlotry, her Ashtoreth-like incessant warbling of self-worship and self-righteousness is dissolved and destroyed to create space for the New Temple within, built on Christ’s teachings.

1Ch 29:1  Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God. 

1Co 11:8  For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1Co 11:9  Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man [The Temple, the Bride for Christ]. 

Luk 11:21  When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods [his ways in Christ] are in peace:
Luk 11:22  But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Luk 11:23  He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Huzzab represents our insolence against our Husband, Christ. Doves and pigeons puff out their breasts like an instrument’s sounding bag and pulse to their sound, depicted as “tabering”. First, we are silly doves like Ahola and Aholibah, seeking courtesan attention and wasting our substance on illusory, desirable young men, our neighbouring nations’ values prattling endless lies. Now, in humble acknowledgment of her sins, she is transitioning positively into a peaceful dove in submissive truth to Christ. 

Isa 59:11  We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 

Hos 7:11  Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 

2Ti 3:6  For of this sort [proud men and boaster, proud, blasphemers unholy…] are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women [harlot churches] laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

Nah 2:8  But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. 
Nah 2:9  Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture. 

Thus far, this study depicts the Great City Nineveh in Assyria as a stagnant pool of water contaminated with the faeces and urine of the clay beasts of the field, the stench of lying doctrines, and drying up in the summer heat, just as it does in the streets of every city small and great within. 

Isa 10:5  O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
Isa 10:6  I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire [H2563 – clay; mixed with foaming, fermenting filth] of the streets. 

That Great City Nineveh is Babylon the Great, where lies our rebellious self-righteousness, its cavernous vault of silver and gold.

While in Babylon as a rebellious wife to our Lord, living in a constant cycle of sumptuous partying, why would we want to look back to rebuilding the wall of a New Jerusalem? However, some, representing the Bride of Christ, led and signified by Zerubbabel, are given the glorious curiosity to know their Lord’s word and rebuild on his foundation (Ezra 3:1-13). But in the meantime, she is barren and wasted. She fears what is before her: a task too burdensome — and boring; fulfilling the prophecy of Eve’s curse, her knees smote together in pain, she brings forth bastard children as of a whore.

Nah 2:10  She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. 

Gen 3:16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to against thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 

Nah 2:11  Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? 

Where the eagles gather, as do a pride of lions, they feed on the dying and dead of our falsehoods, all guaranteeing nourishing the fearless new man.

Mat 24:27  For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:28  For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 

Pro 30:30  A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; 

Num 14:8  If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Num 14:9  Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. 

Nah 2:12  The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin [prey which is torn to pieces]. 

Christ is the all-powerful head of his harlot pride of lionesses in the wilderness, strangling her enemies for her to feed on. Yet, typically under the command of Eve’s curse, they all feed on his word and still complain, rejecting his love.

Today, since the cross, he is still that mighty lion heading one emblematic lioness, his wife, the Body of Christ, for a sumptuous feast of truth.

Rev 5:4  And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Rev 5:5  And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. 

Nah 2:13  Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard. 

Paradoxically, the Lord is against those who preach his name unrighteously; he burns their chariots, the very vehicles of harlot Christianity, sustaining their barrenness in the One Thousand Year reign with a rod of iron only to smoke it in a mighty furnace of truth in the Resurrection to Judgment. Until then, he administers their casting out of devils to sustain strong delusion since it is not yet their time to hear of salvation.

Mar 9:38  John said to him, Master, we saw one driving out evil spirits in your name: and we said that he might not, because he is not one of us. 
Mar 9:39  But Jesus said, Say not so: for there is no man who will do a great work in my name, and be able at the same time to say evil of me.
Mar 9:40  He who is not against us is for us. 
Mar 9:41  Whoever gives you a cup of water, because you are Christ’s, truly I say to you, he will in no way be without his reward. [first negatively, and then positively in the Lake of Fire]

Luk 8:4-15  And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
Luk 8:5  A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side [“the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard”]; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Luk 8:6  And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
Luk 8:7  And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Luk 8:8  And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Luk 8:9  And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
Luk 8:10  And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Luk 8:11  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 
Luk 8:12  Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luk 8:13  They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Luk 8:14  And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Luk 8:15  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.