This is the Bamel Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, we

juxtapose the book of Jonah against the other Syrian prophet to Israel, the book Nahum.

We'll take a look at the other side of the equation of how God deals with evil. So,

let's kind of think about this, like, God dealing with evil. Like, this book is maybe

a slightly different perspective of how God deals with evil. It's not a simple, simple formula

for what happens, you know? Right. A lot of the times in the Bible, you see people crying

out, like, God, why are you letting this happen? What about all this? You know, the sin of

the Amirites hasn't reached its full potential. It's like, what are you talking about? Like, look

at what they're doing. Right. Like, the perspective they got us to have to deal with evil

in the way that he does. Right. His very difficult to wrap our minds around. Right. And it's

definitely true that God has slow to anger. And so, I think the part of his nature that

maybe we wrestle with, I don't know if we wrestle with it more often or not, but the part

of his nature we might wrestle with more often is why he doesn't deal with injustice. Why

doesn't he do something? And that was what the book of Jonah was about. Book of Jonah reminded

us that God doesn't do stuff because of the potential of people. God is not quick to judge.

He's not quick to condemn. He has slow to anger because if we will turn around, if we'll

repent, if we'll do the right things, we're just loaded with potential and we can do so much.

And God understands that. But to say that God never does anything about evil would definitely

miss the point. And so now, who's going to be on one hand a refreshing reminder of that?

But it's also going to, like you said, this isn't something that's easily formulated or

easily resolved. And so what's this going to create maybe even some more questions when

it comes to that kind of stuff. So, so we've been talking about the prophets. We talked

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