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

Welcome to Through the Bible.

We're in the book of NAM as our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, continues to tell us the backstory of the wicked city of Nineveh

and why Jonah and people like him wanted to see the Nineveites wiped off the earth.

I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you aboard the Bible bus as we continue our great five-year journey through God's entire word.

Now, to get us started, here's more of the introduction that Dr. McGee began last time.

And did you know that it's quite interesting that women's lib didn't seem to help this great

city of Nineveh. We read in 213, Behold, I'm against these, saith the Lord of hosts, and I'll burn a chariots in the smoke,

and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I'll cut off the prey from the earth,

and the voice of thy messengers shall be no more. Well, actually, it says here also that they'll be like women. And believe me,

that is the picture that's given to us here. And I don't think it really means women,

but it actually means the men were acting that way. That is, they were not courageous. Now, big business and commerce

did not really save Nineveh, and they had a great deal of that. We were told in Neumpt 316,

thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of the heaven, the canker worm spoileth and flyeth away.

In other words, they survived a depression, but they were destroyed.

I think the General Charite Company and the Bale Steelworks and the Moloch Wine Company didn't have a dividend one year, but you can be sure

of one thing that this nation went down. We're told that the crowneders, the locusts, and the

captains as great grasshoppers which camp in the hedges on the cold day, but when the sun

arise it, they flee away, and their place is not

known where they were. In other words, there was no leadership at all. They lacked courage.

They lacked decision. There was a lethargy and an indifference. The shepherd slumber, O king of Assyria, thy nobles shall dwell in the dust.

Thy people is scattered upon the mountains. No man gathereth them. That's name 318. In other words,

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