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Nahum was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Tanakh, the Old Testament. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. Nahum's name means "comforter" or “Consolation” or “Consoler”, and he was from the town of Elkoshite, "God the ensnarer".[1]

There is a question as to the time and purpose of this writing. There are those who suggest that his writings are a prophecy written in about 615 BC or they may be an historical account written as a liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC to remind people lest they forget. The form we now have may be both the result of the Prophecy and subsequent recorded final writing of an earlier prophecy.

Nahum supposedly preached during the reign of King Manesseh, an evil kings in Judah’s long history. Not only did the king need to learn the lessons of being a good king and the people needed to repent of their idolatry[2] in a nation that had completely turned its back on The Way of God. So, this would mean Nahum was written near the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh.[3] Like Amos he did so in a vivid poetic style.

Nahum’s view of the judgment of Nineveh is a continuation of the story of Jonah who was sent to Nineveh to preach repentance and hope to the Assyrian people who heard and heeded the warning for a time. During the time of Nahum, the Assyrians had returned to their own ways, being conquered by those ways of Balaam[4] and conquering the northern kingdom of Israel and exercising their power over Judah in the south (2 Kings 17:1–6; 2 Kings 18:13 through 2 Kings 19:37).

A great deal of confusion has followed the interpretations of Nahum by men like Calvin. God has created a cause and effect universe and tyrants would have no power to wreak their havoc if the people had not already rejected the way of God and His righteousness as they had done in 1 Samuel 8. Charles L. Taylor, Jr. writes "it is one of the world’s classic rebukes of militarism…. All tyrants are doomed. They make enemies of those whom they attack and oppress; they become corrupt, dissolute, drunken, effeminate; they are lulled into false security… ". [5]


Introduction Audios

The topic of several broadcast were walking around subject in preparation of examining this unique prophet of Nahum.

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This first show introduces this Conversation with God through Nahum to understand the burden[6] of Nineveh[7] from that poet and his vision to know the Truth.
Philippians 3:20 "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:"
Facts matter if you are not a mental bigot. The singularity of creation and the magical process of life and how does it relate to the body of Christ and the burden of Nahum. What and who is YHVH. The law of God is built into creation and becomes the moving force of cause and effect in the universe and in our own life. How do they communicate?
Spiritual leverage of light among those who sit in darkness. Is the Holy Spirit living in your living temple, your body of cells? Forgiveness heals spiritual trauma and heals life. Spiritual DNA giveth life. To cut off the light from your own heart, the truth about yourself, you are going to cut off the truth about the world. To deny the truth will also deny the light. Links mentioned in the show Refuse, Numerous scientists.

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Hidden meanings in the poetry of Nahum and the world at that time. And how the comforter will guide you if you follow His mandates. Lies become the law of the fearful mind. Eyes to see and ears to hear but those of little faith need evidence from Numerous scientists. Understanding the cause and effect built into the universe which you are snared in can make you a prophet from Elkoshite. Lies of the Assyrians are contagious in our times and seeing the truth begins with humility. Idolatry of nations and whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, and the mistress of witchcrafts is essential to understanding the messages of Nahum to our own time. Covetous practices mandates that you become merchandise and curse children in God's cause and effect universe.




Nahum By Chapter

Nahum | Nahum 1 | Nahum 2 | Nahum 3

Preceded by: Micah - Followed by: Habakkuk



Summaries of chapters

Summary of Nahum Chapter 1

At the core of the power of tyrants like Cain, Nimrod, Babylon, Assyria, Pharaoh, Caesar, and FDR is rooted in the power of contract. Nineveh[7] Those contracts we see were of the spirit of the Asuras and Assyria. They like the merchants of men are established by a "cognizable" participation in covetous practices of a society at the expense of neighbor and a freedom of choice while they curse children through debt being slothful in the ways of faith, charity, and hope which is love.

Built into the Natural Law exists what is called Divine Will that puts into motion a cause and effect from which there is no escape and metaphorically called the wrath of God.

You, your choices, are the cause but the effect, which is a whirlwind, will come as a flood. There is no escape. It will eventually break the yoke but also the system, the world orders, including the simulated monetary system itself. If you will not repent you may go into the grave with those systems as they fail. Darkness will pursue everyone who seeks to live without faith and love.

But there is hope that bringeth good tidings, and peace if you Repent if you keep thy solemn feasts which is a daily ministration of Pure Religion through charity and the perfect law of liberty.


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Summary of Nahum Chapter 2

Something has come that divides and scatters the people[8] which was seen in the story of Nimrod and Babylon.[7] We are warned to watch the way and strengthen our loins.[9] This is done by living by the ways of love, charity, and hope., not force, fear, and fealty under Assyrian contracts which ruins[10] and empties[11] the fruit of vine.[12]

They cast their wealth away[13] and the lion's prey on society.[14] And God will not hear them because they will not hear the cries of one another so that the "the sword shall devour thy young lions".[15]

Without Repentance and a return to a daily ministration of Pure Religion through charity and the perfect law of liberty the people will be devoured and ruined.


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Summary of Nahum Chapter 3

The whoredom with the strange woman was a form of whoredom that brings whips and chariots. The witchcraft was associated with what was called sorcery which was associated with the metaphor of something the deceptive and seductive that was in turn associated with of idolatry or in the New Testament Witchcraft.

God will expose the face behind the curtain/skirt "and I will shew the nations thy nakedness which is the lack of authority and the shame of their kingdoms. What was once great will be "laid waste" and will not find the "comforters".

Though she was strong "she went into captivity" and the swarms of office eat her up. "Thy shepherds slumber" because you whored after the king of Assyria. Thy people are scattered upon the mountains because they have forgotten the bands of liberty and desired the bands of bondage that come with the wages of unrighteousness.

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  1. 0512 אֶלְקשִׁי‎ ‘Elqoshiy [el-ko-shee’] patrial from a name of uncertain derivation; adj pr gent; [BDB-49a] [{See TWOT on 90 }] AV-Elkoshite 1; 1 Elkoshite= "God the ensnarer"
    1) a native and/or descendant of Elkosh (location unknown)
  2. Covetousness is idolatry
    Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
    Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
    1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
  3. III. Message of the book: Nahum single–mindedly proclaims the destruction and doom of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital.
    IV. Nineveh: “The ancient capital of Assyria. First mentioned in Genesis. The country was also called the land of Nimrod by Micah. Balaam prophesied the captivity of Israel by Assyria, and Asaph sings of their alliance with Moab. Jonah was sent to the city about 800 B.C. and Nahum devotes the whole of his book to “the burden of Nineveh,”... Isaiah says that Sennacherib resided in the city; and it was probably the scene of his death, while worshipping in the temple of Nisroch, his god. The last notice of it is by Zephaniah, B.C. 630. Assyria is alluded to as having been destroyed, according to prophesy by Ezekiel, and Jeremiah omits it from the catalogue of all nations. The city is not mentioned in the inscriptions of the Persian dynasty. Herodotus passed very near, if not over, the site of the city, about 200 years after its destruction, but does not mention it, except as having once been there. Xenophon, with his 10,000 Greeks, encamped near the site (B.C. 401) but does not mention its name, although he describes the mounds as they appear now. Alexander marched over the very place and won a great victory at Arbela, in sight of it, but his historians make no note of it. The Emperor Claudius planted a colony there and restored the name Nineve. Tacitus calls it Ninos when taken by Meherdates. On the coins of Trajan it is Ninus and on those of Maximinus it is Niniva; Claudeopolis being added on both coins. Many relics of the Romans have been found; vases, sculptures, figures in bronze and marble, terra-cottas, and coins. The site was again deserted when Heraclius gained a victory over the Persians, A.D. 627. The Arabs named their fort, on the east bank of the Tigris, Ninawi (A.D. 637). The accounts of its immense extent are various and not very reliable. Diodorus Siculus says the dimensions were (according as we estimate his figures, from 32 to 60, or even) 74 miles in circuit. The walls were 100 feet high and wide enough for 3 chariots to drive abreast, flanked by 1500 towers, each 200 feet high (accounts which have not yet been verified). Layard says: ‘If we take the 4 great mounds of Nimrud, Koyunjik, Khorsabad, and Karamles as the corners of a square, it will be found to agree pretty accurately with the 60 miles of Jerodotus, which make the three days’ journey of Jonah.’ Within this space there are many mounds and remains of pottery, bricks, etc. The name of Nineveh is found on the Egyptian monuments of the date of Thothmes III, about 1400 B.C.” (Smith’s Bible Dictionary). Lesson 86: Nahum
  4. Nehemiah 13:2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
    Micah 6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
    2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
    Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
    Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
  5. Taylor, C. L.-I. (1956). The Interpreters' Bible (first ed., Vol. VI Lamentations through Malachi, p. 954). (S. T. George Arthur Buttrick, Ed.) Nashville: Abingdon Press.
  6. 04853 מַשָּׂא‎ massa’ [mas-saw’] from 05375 נָשָׂא‎ nasa’ to lift or bear up; n m; [BDB-601b, BDB-672b] [{See TWOT on 1421 @@ "1421d" }] [{See TWOT on 1421 @@ "1421e" }] AV-burden 57, song 3, prophecy 2, set 1, exaction 1, carry away 1, tribute 1; 66
    1) load, bearing, tribute, burden, lifting
    1a) load, burden
    1b) lifting, uplifting, that to which the soul lifts itself up
    1c) bearing, carrying
    1d) tribute, that which is carried or brought or borne
    ) utterance, oracle, burden
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Nineveh was the capital of Assyria which is associated with Babylon and the bondage of Egypt05210 נִינְוֵה‎ Niynëveh [nee-nev-ay’] of foreign origin, Greek 3535 Νινευι; n pr loc; [BDB-644a] [{See TWOT on 1326 @@ "1326a" }] AV-Nineveh 17; 17 Nineveh= "abode of Ninus"
    1) capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria; located on the east bank of the Tigris river, 550 miles (880 km) from its mouth and 250 miles (400 km) north of Babylon
  8. Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
    5 ¶ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad( נָפ֖וּץ NunPeiVavTzadik)from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
  9. MemTavNunYodMem 04975 מֹתֶן‎ mothen MemTavNun [mo’-then] from an unused root meaning to be slender; n m; [BDB-608a] [{See TWOT on 1267 @@ "1267a" }] AV-loins 42, side 4, greyhound 1; 47
    1) loins, hips
    1a) used with 02223 in #Pr 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
  10. ShinChetTav is also translated ruined but here it is from ShinChetTavVav which only appears here in Nahum 2:2 and in Hosea 9:9. 07843 ^תחשׁ^ shachath \@shaw-khath’\@ a primitive root;ShinChetTav with the addition of other letters a word meaning will change v; {See TWOT on 2370} AV-destroy 96, corrupt 22, mar 7, destroyer 3, corrupters 2, waster 2, spoilers 2, battered 1, corruptly 1, misc 11; 147
    1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay
    1a) (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted
    1b) (Piel)
    1b1) to spoil, ruin
    1b2) to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally)
    1c) (Hiphil)
    1c1) to spoil, ruin, destroy
    1c2) to pervert, corrupt (morally)
    1c3) destroyer (participle)
    1d) (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle)
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
    • ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
  11. Be itKufKufVavMem and BeitKufKufYodMem repeated in Nahum 2 01238 בָּקַק‎ BeitKufKuf baqaq [baw-kah’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-132b] [{See TWOT on 273 }] AV-empty 5, make void 1, emptiers 1, fail 1, utterly (inf for emphasis; 9
    1) to empty
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to empty, lay waste
    1a2) to make void (fig.)
    1b) (Niphal) to be emptied
    1c) (Polel) to empty out, devastate
    2) to be profuse, abundant
    2a) (Qal) luxuriant
    • ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
    • ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
    • ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
  12. Proverbs 11:4 ¶ Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
  13. Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
  14. Job 4:7-12... "Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad..."
  15. 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
    Revelation 10:3 And cried with a loud voice, as [when] a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.