04/19/2025 – Day 293 – Nahum – Chapters 1 – 3 (the entire book) / 1: 2-6 – The attributes of God
Prior cycle posts on this reading are dated 03/06/2021; 12/17/2022; 0205/2023. You can pull them all up at once by searching on “Day 293”. Interesting note on the 12/17/2022 post, a recurring theme how archaeological discoveries have proven the Bible skeptics over and over again: For many years, skeptics began questioning even if the Assyrians had ever existed, let alone became world dominating after the Babylonians. Lo and behold, in the 1820s, archaelogists hit a gold mine so to speak with the discovery of the city of Ninevah. Speaking of, here is an interesting footnote on 3:19:
“3:19 A century earlier, God’s judgment was withheld when Ninevah repented at Jonah’s warning. Now filled with idolatry, corruption, and violence, the wicked city could not escape God’s judgment.”
Also, in the Evidence Study Bible footnotes to verses 1: 2-6, The attributes of God, is a quote from Charles Spurgeon:
“Learn ye, my friends, to look upon God as being as severe in His justice as if He were not loving, and yet s loving as if he were not severe. His love does not diminish His justice, nor does His justice, in the least degree, make warfare upon His love. The two things are sweetly linked together in the atonement of Christ,. But, mark, we can never understand the fullness of the atonement till we have first grasped the Scriptural truth of God’s immense justice. There was never an ill word spoken, nor an ill thought conceived, nor an evil deed done, for which God will not have punishment from some one or another. He will either have satisfaction from you, or else from Christ. If you have no atonement to bring through Christ, you must for ever lie paying the debt which you never can pay, in eternal misery, for as surely as God is God, He will sooner lose His Godhead than suffer one sin to go unpunished, or one particle of rebellion unrevenged.” Charles Spurgeon
Soli Deo Gloria!