How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

You know when you're watching a movie or reading a book,

and right in the middle of the story,

there's a flashback scene that explains something deeper about one of the characters? Well, that's kind of what's going to happen in this study on Through the Bible. I'm Steve Schwetz, and I'm glad that you're on the Bible bus as we travel through the book of Neum. Our tour guide, well, of course, that's Dr. J. Verna McGee,

and he's going to point out the landscape through the Old Testament prophet's eyes.

Now, about that flashback, remember the prophet Jonah? Well, he lived about 100 years before the

events that Naham writes about. Remember what city Jonah refused to go to and warn about God's

judgment? Right, Nineveh. If you remember,

the people of Nineveh did repent and God chose not to destroy them as Jonah had warned. Well,

now it's a hundred years later, and the people of Nineveh have forgotten the mercy of God

and are back to their wicked ways. Now it's Naim's turn to give them the same message,

but it doesn't end the same way. Dr. McGee prepared a special introduction before we get into the book.

Let's listen now. Now it's been stated that one third of scripture was prophetic when given

and that many of the prophecies have already been fulfilled. For instance, there were

28 prophecies fulfilled at the crucifixion of Christ. There were many prophecies fulfilled at the birth

of Christ, and then there are great prophecies concerning great cities and nations that are in the

Word of God, and they've been literally fulfilled. Pyr and Sidon today, which both of them are in

shambles again. They are in scripture, and it's been literally fulfilled. Now, there are those today that have found out

that this little book is important because it contains fulfilled prophecy, a great prophecy

concerning a great nation. And somebody is going to say, but shouldn't that make this an unimportant book? Absolutely

obsolete today, because Neum tells us of the judgment of God on Nineveh, and Nineveh was destroyed

according to the prophecy. It was fulfilled. And Nineveh has passed off the stage of human events,

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