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God is gracious and compassionate.

And whenever we see God not acting according to our standards against wickedness, against evil,

the answer is not God is not doing anything.

It's always an expression consistently in the Bible when God is waiting to bring destruction.

It's always an expression of his

compassion. But there are limits to that. God does ultimately make all things right. And I think

we're seeing that being fleshed out in the book of Neheng. Welcome to help me Teach the Bible.

I'm Nancy Guthrie.

Help Me Teach the Bible is a production of the gospel coalition, sponsored by Crossway,

a not-for-profit publisher of the ESV Bible, Christian Books, and Tracks.

Learn more at crossway.org.

It's my joy today to be sitting in the office of Dr. Nicholas Reed. Dr. Reed serves as associate professor of Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern Studies at Reformed

Theological Seminary in Orlando. Dr. Reed, thank you so much for being willing to help us teach the Bible.

My pleasure. Thank you so much for the invitation. I knew that we were going to talk about

the book of Nahum as I came to Orlando, and I jokingly told a few of my friends, I'm not sure

if I've even read the book of Naham. So I'm going to have to get up to speed on it. And so it was great when I got here on Wednesday.

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