This week on Help for Today, we’ve been looking at familiar truths from forgotten texts, and today we conclude with the prophet Nahum. God tells Nahum, “to write this judgment, to write this impending doom upon the city of Nineveh.” We know that 100 to 150 years prior to Nahum’s writings, Jonah goes to the city, and we see a great revival. But these people have drifted from God, and now they find themselves back in all of the sin and all of the wickedness. God says, “enough is enough. I’m not going to have it anymore.” So he sends a judgment. Nahum makes some pretty bold claims, seeing as how the city of Nineveh has walls 100 feet tall. Historians tell us that there are towers on these walls that extend another 100 feet. They also tell us that there was a moat around the city, 150 feet wide and 60 feet deep. We’re talking about an impenetrable wall. Force, something that no one could ever take over.

Yet, not even 75 years after Nahum makes these writings, we already hear about Nahum’s destruction and Nineveh being overtaken. The familiar truth from this book is this: if God says it, it will be done. No matter how impossible it may seem, no matter how ridiculous it may sound, if God says it, it will happen, because he has all power in his hands. Let that go with us this weekend. Whatever it may be that we face, whatever it may be that God calls us to do, we can rest assured that God has all the power, and if he says it in this book, it will happen.

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Emory Fuller, GSBC Activities Director

Emory Fuller is a faculty member for Golden State Baptist College, heading up all of the activities and much of the intramural sports. His wife, Jein, serves alongside him in the church Media Department.