Message For Nineveh

Micah emphasized the need for justice and peace. He was sent to proclaim God’s case against Israel and Judah, their leaders and their people. Throughout the book are prophecies about Jesus, the Messiah, who will gather the people into one nation. Micah makes it clear that God hate kindness, idolatry, injustice, and empty ritual – and He still hates these today. However, God is very willing to pardon the sins of any who repent. Judgment will come: The command to listen (1:2) summoning all the people, without an excuse, to listen to the words that God is about to do among His own people. The principle was clear and well established: sin and transgression culminate in judgment (verse 5). The sins of the two capital cities resonates the sins of

The prophet’s words were addressed to Judah as a messenger of comfort, because Judah was experiencing domination and oppression under the Assyrian Empire. The theme of Nahum is found in the opening line “an oracle concerning Nineveh” (1:1). The prophetic word that Nahum must carry certainly brings a heavy burdensome message for Nineveh. Although Jonah was used by God to have a powerful ministry in that great city of the Assyrian Empire and brought repentance to the large city of Nineveh it didn’t last long. However, the results of Jonah’s preaching evidently wore off, and Nineveh slipped back into her former brutal, godless ways and once again faced the judgment of God. Therefore, God is in control and will remain faithful to His promise. Those promises to Judah are for a complete freedom from

Zephaniah’s words evoking the bitter sounds of tragedy and the darkness of a fallen world. Although the entire world would be under God’s judgment God, therefore, narrows it down to the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. A warrior’s cry, his strength is of no avail adding desolation (1:14). Therefore, the dimension of that day is distress and anguish, ruin and devastation, darkness and gloom, but all is based on God’s wrath (1:15). We do not want to miss the point - God is holy. He created the world and gave life to mankind, expressing thereby his love and righteousness. However, the reality of the human world is a denial of