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The Book of Nahum – Chapter 3:1-19 

[Aired March 8, 20 25]

It is detestable to the Lord, and hopefully to us, that we, similar to Orthodox Christianity, were in bed with Old Covenant Israel and became insensitively numb to the ongoing cycle of sin, suffering, repentance, and sin. Faith arises from a God-given curiosity, continually hearing and spiritually understanding Christ’s word, further inspiring unseen spiritual gems that captivate our hearts and minds (Son 4:9).

The final part of our study of Nahum is our search for exclusive gems inspired by the bibliophile—hopefully spoken here. Spurious faith is generated when we reject walking in the spirit of the instructions, which is grossly hypocritical. When we repeatedly act on Christ’s commands, they become embedded in our spirit, and Christ-authentic faith is locked in.

As always, with those golden spiritual inspirations, we always first identify with ourselves and not indict some other poor wretch (Luke 18:9-14).

Rom 10:17  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rom 10:18  But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. 
Rom 10:19  But I say, Did not Israel know? [… don’t we first know!?] First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Rom 10:20  But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
Rom 10:21  But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. 

We are that “bloody city” Nineveh, transitioning away from being a whore, where the death imposed by sensualities is increasingly losing its grip on our hearts and minds.

Significations:

Woe to Nineveh

Nah 3:1  Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 

Our prey is the giants of our land, where we, the young lions, wolves, and eagles, gather to war and feast on the nourishing words of our Lord—his oil and wine of spiritual understanding. This feast consumes the multitude of lies that deceived us and cheated our husband, Christ, of the spiritual truths now beautifully expressed by the singularly devoted femininity he creates in us.

Rev 6:3  And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
Rev 6:4  And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. 
Rev 6:5  And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Rev 6:6  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

The holy spirit, symbolised as oil for our lamps, illuminates all understanding for our fruitfulness. Consequently, the combination of wine effervesces (H3196) hearts and minds to understand the New Covenant’s meanings.

Nah 3:2  The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 
Nah 3:3  The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 

Job 39:19  Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Job 39:20  Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Job 39:21  He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
Job 39:22  He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Job 39:23  The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
Job 39:24  He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
Job 39:25  He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

2Ki 7:5  And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
2Ki 7:6  For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2Ki 7:7  Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

As always, there are positive and negative aspects for the Saints to glean from Nahum 3:2-3. We, in our journey to being recreated as the New Man in Christ, initially are the two-fold child of hell, noisily running ill-equipped into battle, armed with our glittering Orthodox Christian ideologies twisted to match our righteousness quite the opposite of Christ’s. We ‘prance’ our breathtaking thighs and breasts inelegantly and typified by Ahola and Aholibah for the leering joy of 40,000 plus harlot churches of Babylon — forgetting that old age is coming upon those magical lying doctrines causing us to be seen colloquially speaking as ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ — an outward condition already upon the contemporaries of modern Zionism.

Eze 23:40  And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
Eze 23:41  And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil [Their personalised lying doctrines and spirit of a different Jesus]. 
Eze 23:42  And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Eze 23:43  Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Eze 23:44  Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

Nah 3:4  Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot [Her jewels of her joints; glorious nuances of femininity, now descreated], the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families [harlot churches] through her witchcrafts. 
Nah 3:5  Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 
Nah 3:6  And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. 

Nakedness spiritually represents our carnal nature, not transformed spiritually, and witchcraft is rebellion against God’s word.

Few experiences evoke greater disgust than a beautiful girl elegantly dressed, often seen socially as such, who becomes intoxicated by her beauty and wine, ‘innocently’ flashing her breasts and thighs. Similarly, a sheik male of great standing, seated in honour and high respect, disbands his God-given authority and leadership in the gates of his land — the wise Saint starkly perceives both as a Woman, the Great Whore, enigmatically departing to become the Bride, a concept too mysterious for her ten brothers of Jacob residing in Babylon, equal to Solomon’s 1,000 wives to comprehend.

Lev 19:31 Turn not unto necromancers [witchcraft; worshipping the dead—dead doctrines] and unto soothsayers; seek not after them to make yourselves unclean: I am Jehovah your God.

1Sa 15:23  For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And selfwill is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He hath also rejected thee from being king.

Pro 9:1-12  Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Pro 9:2  She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Pro 9:3  She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Pro 9:4  Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Pro 9:5  Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Pro 9:6  Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Pro 9:7  He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Pro 9:8  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Pro 9:9  Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Pro 9:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Pro 9:11  For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Pro 9:12  If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

She is the Bride, juxtaposed with her former courtesan self as seen in these verses:

Pro 9:13  A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Pro 9:14  For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Pro 9:15  To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Pro 9:16  Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Pro 9:17  Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Pro 9:18  But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Of course, Job spiritually mirrors the new Christ-styled ‘sheik’ (ruler, leader, prince, royal) man in Christ, sitting in the gates of the heavenly New Jerusalem within.

Job 29:1-25  Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job 29:2  Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job 29:3  When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Job 29:4  As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Job 29:5  When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job 29:6  When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Job 29:7  When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Job 29:8  The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job 29:9  The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10  The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job 29:12  Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job 29:13  The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15  I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job 29:16  I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job 29:17  And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job 29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job 29:19  My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job 29:20  My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job 29:21  Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job 29:22  After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job 29:23  And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job 29:24  If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job 29:25  I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

The Elect of God, having mirrored Ahola, Aholiabah and Job’s carnal nature, most embarrassingly understand they were we, fleeing from ourselves when no enemy was chasing us before being recreated as Christ’s Bride.

Pro 28:1  The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Pro 28:2  For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

Psa 27:9  Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psa 27:10  When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Nah 3:7  And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee? 
Nah 3:8  Art thou better than populous [H527] No, that was situate [dwell] among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 

Historically, to this day, nobody likes a perceived ‘loser’, a beta male or female submissively turning the other cheek and not standing up for their self-imposed rights, their illusionary ‘free will’. What the world views as building personal and national strength, the budding Elect recognise as weakness and gain immense strength by shedding those man-made ‘alpha’ identities and taking on Christ’s all-powerful spiritual.

2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 
2Co 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Joh 3:30  He must increase, but I must decrease.
Joh 3:31  He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
Joh 3:32  And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
Joh 3:33  He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
Joh 3:34  For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

“Populous” in Nah 3:8 H527 means ‘artificer, architect, master workman, throng or the multitude to murmur and roar’. Such were we in Babylon, a clamorous woman growing old in whoredoms despised by former comforters and her ideologies symbolically flowing from Babylon’s four rivers, the Pishon, Gichon, Chidekel and Perat of the primary Euphrates River, depicting the shear volume of lies against the “wall” representing a bulwark to pile water up against, yet never increasing the sea level. The Elect of God flees her to rebuild the New Heavenly Jerusalem within her Lord’s mighty firey flood of truth in his Elect today and the rest of the world in the Lake of Fire.

The theme of the following verses in Nah 3:9-13, highlighted by verse 13, identifies the protagonist, Old Israel and our formerly like courtesan ways, stating, “Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.” It spiritually represents the men of Israel, most notably the priests who are meant to underpin the nation’s moral foundation but have abandoned their leadership roles. As a result, women step in, establishing doctrines that are more emotionally palatable but lack the power and might of their Husband’s strength.

Nah 3:9  Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 

How dreadfully relevant that verse is outwardly today. Lubim are Libyans, meaning ‘empty-hearted’ –  a people of northern Africa west of Egypt. Indicative of today, by the oligarchy design flooding into Europe and other Western largely Orthodox Christian nations allegedly ‘enriching’ them with their heathen, barbarian (G915 –1. one whose speech is rude, rough and harsh) ideologies.

God makes each ‘pot’ representing his Elect to his specifications and spiritual understanding. It is not Cain’s, Amnon’s, Judas’s, Jezebel’s, or our former selves’ fault or making that their ‘pots’, and we were ’empty-hearted and lacking intelligence in all sorts of business and social circumstances, most poignantly spiritually.

Isa 45:9 “Look at these people! Look at them arguing with me. They are like pieces of clay from a broken pot. Clay does not say to the one moulding it, ‘Man, what are you doing?’ Things that are made don’t have the power to question the one who makes them. (ERV)

Nah 3:10  Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 

Verse 10 reveals us as the Great Whore, whose children, representing juvenile and false doctrines accommodating our ease in Zion, won’t save us from the flooding spiritual destruction from our captivity in Babylonian. Our treacherous priests, the honourable men whose strongholds of feminised doctrines are bound by the father of lies endemically within, inevitably fail to save us and those in the One Thousand Year rule even without his influence. Our captors, by casting lots for our corrupted doctrines, are similar to the men of Sodom wanting to know Angel’s intelligence, causing both parties God-designed blind drunkenness.

Jer 25:27  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6  And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Nah 3:11  Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. 
Nah 3:12  All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. 

Regardless of hearing Christ’s truth, our self-righteousness withstands our ability to walk in his commands and is depicted as eating the first-fruit sacrifice of the Elect for her Lord’s glory — her sisters in Babylon unrighteously consume without spiritual benefit.

Mat 7:6  Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 

Those portrayals result from emasculated doctrines. After that, no matter how much truth is spoken and portrayed by a watery mote guarding the walls we have constructed by our strength against the enemy’s attack, we stay unprotected because we have rejected our Husband’s commands.

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Isa 3:2  The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Isa 3:3  The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

Mat 25:29  For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Mat 25:30  And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Nah 3:13  Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. 
Nah 3:14  Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. 

Inclusive of their emasculated counterparts, if anything cuts off the ears and blinds Babylonian women, it’s a Nah 3:13-like statement, insultingly equating women’s decision-making capabilities with those of children.

Gen 3:17  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Gen 3:18  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Isa 3:12  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Those verses stab at the very heart of feminism and her self-idolisation to men’s immutable agreement, nailing her as Queen to God’s throne, emblematic of humanity’s rejection of Christ’s commands. They set her up as the problem on which all eyes focus, largely blind to the more profound problem of men’s submission to her, and his abdication of headship under Christ is what those verses potently state spiritually.

Men are agonisingly smitten by a pretty, bright-eyed girl’s dedicated attention to him. Her emotions and feelings highlight every nuance of her personality that the dissolute females like Dehila, Ahola and Aholiabah inventively use to their advantage — to varying degrees, as do all women in courtship. However, those same expressions used in her rulership over men and countries are devastating to national decency in governance, mirrored in Old Israel to her Lord and, decreasingly, us to Christ. It sets up the Elect of God to be consumed in their self-designed kiln, their doctrines tried and tested to their standards, not God’s.

The brick kiln represents our self-righteousness, and like the gallows Haman made for Mordecai, it was ultimately for Haman’s judgement (Est 6 & 7); our own words will utterly consume us and will be wood to feed the fire in our kiln but of God’s fiery words.

Luk 19:22  And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

Nah 3:15  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. 
Nah 3:16  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. 
Nah 3:17  Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. 

Those verses incite powerful memories of Revelations, its symbolism of fire, swords, cankerworms, locusts, and us as the “merchants,” representing the innumerable lies from all offices in our land inwardly, impudently with painted pouting lips, locusts without headship, opposing every word of Christ’s.

2Ch 7:13  If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

Pro 30:27  The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Locusts with stings in their tails are false prophets and doctrines of impotent male headship, the ‘shepherds’ to appease children and women. Innumerable as dust dwelling in the dust. Of course, the lady-Elect is inwardly amused by those formerly perceived insults, them given by Christ, and with a shiver to the soles of their feet to see that they, along with their male Elect counterparts, signify the Bride of Christ; her eyes brightly ravishing her Husband for his glory rebounding in her.

Rev 9:7  And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
Rev 9:8  And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Nah 3:18  Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. 
Nah 3:19  There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? 

To the deaf and blind, Nahum concluded rather brutally, without any comforting words for Israel. Yet again, the Bride revels in her God-given understanding as she is attuned to the sum of His word (Psa 119:160 YLT), knowing the unspeakably glorious outcome revolves around her, having in trembling reverence embarrassingly jumped down from His throne, only to be reinstated like Daniel Mordici and Joseph.