Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today we finished our 23rd book of the Bible, The Minor Prophet Nahum.

His words are directed toward the city of Nineba, which is the capital city of Assyria.

We've read a lot about Assyria lately.

Yesterday they planned an attack on Jerusalem after already attacking 46 other cities in

Judah, but were thwarted by the angel of the Lord.

And before that, they attacked and destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel and took its

people into exile.

And we've also read about Assyria's capital city Nineba before.

It's the city God sent Jonah to rebuke roughly a hundred years ago.

At the time, they repented, although Jonah wasn't too happy about it.

But here we are a hundred years later, and they've fallen back into their wicked ways,

as evidenced by their actions toward both kingdoms of God's people.

Nahum only explicitly mentions Nineba a few times in this book.

He mostly uses general terminology, which has an added benefit for this prophecy.

It allows it to not only serve the immediate purpose of warning Assyria, but also holds

that second-level meaning many prophecies do of being able to apply to future scenarios

too.

Nahum's message is that God will always judge evil.

There have been and will continue to be evil empires throughout time, and none of them

will outlive God and his judgment.

Specifically here, God is judging Assyria for the way they've treated his people.

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