Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with the fall

of Nineveh as we pick up in Naeum chapter 1 verse 11.

And now with today's message, here's pastor Chuck.

In verse 11, he is making this reference to the Rebekhach who came with his blasphemous

letter from Shanicarib, blaspheming the God in whom the Israelites are trusting.

There is one that has come out of thee

that imagines evil against the Lord.

He is a wicked counselor.

And thus saith the Lord, though they be quiet and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down when he shall pass through.

The angel the Lord passed through and a hundred and eighty five thousand of them were cut down.

For now will I break his joke from off thee and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

So the siege that the Assyrians had against Jerusalem was broken when God passed through and destroyed their forces.

And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee

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