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

You can trace it through history.

The people who turn their backs on God are the ones who were eventually brought to their knees.

In the study on Through the Bible, we're going to witness how a once great and cruel nation was brought to judgment and simply wiped from the face of the earth.

It's really a solemn lesson that we would be wise to heat ourselves.

Now, as you open your Bible to Naham chapter 2, verse 5,

let's listen to our Bible teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee,

continue his introduction on God's judgments of Assyria

and even about the future of our own country.

Now, as we come to this study in this very important little book of Naim, we are going to look back and see just what we've

learned and what this little book is trying to tell us. In this little book we see as we see in

these other minor prophets, the government of God overrules the government of man.

And we saw last time we weren't able to conclude it that there is an erosion of the moral

standards of our nation today and that we have actually become a pagan nation and that this has come about largely today

through the fact that we have those today in the philosophy of liberalism and liberalism in the

church and liberalism in politics and liberalism in

news media is taking us down the garden path to probably oblivion if we keep going the route

we're going today.

This little book has a message for us.

We want to see today what was it that God judged Nineveh for?

What was it that brought them to destruction?

Well, first of all, we find that Nineveh trusted in armaments,

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