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,

Caster Chuck continues with the great city of Nineveh as we pick up in Nehem, chapter 1 verse one.

And now with today's message, pears Pastor Chuck.

Tonight let's turn to the book of Nehem.

He introduces the subject of the prophecy in the first verse, and that is the burden of Nineveh.

Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.

For many years, the records of Assyria were so obliterated that the Bible critics

used to say that those references to Assyria were only made up and that Assyria did not

exist except in the imagination of the writers.

But as the Bible critics so often have proved to be wrong,

in this case, it was also so.

Those brilliant men who laughed and scoffed at the Bible

and led many people into unbelief

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