9/25/21: Nahum

Understanding Nahum via things happening now; Nahum added letters to most words; "World"; Are you following the Holy Spirit/Comforter?; Selling all you hath; Dark winter; The light hurts their eyes; Learning the whole truth to provide for it; Seeing how God works; Pursuing "Happiness"; Mandates of Christ; Natural Law; "Nahum" = comforter/consoler; Uncomfortable truth; Elkoshite?; Being trapped; Cause/effect universe; Pandemic precursor; Willingness to see truth; King Manesseh; Adultery and Idolatry; War on Poverty; Losing our religion; Salvation; Written near end of Assyrian empire; Mandating your neighbors; Causes of your present predicament; Calvin's confusion; Rejecting God's righteousness; Cemetery story; Surviving hospitals; Surviving tyranny; Identifying tyrants; Mt 7:1 - Judgement; Volunteerism; Micah 3; Mt 7:15; Biting one another; Nahum 1; Book of the vision; "Name" of Christ; Saving the whole world?; "Burden"; Tribute; Weakening the people; Saul's folly; Private vs public funding; Nineveh?; Today's burden; Mt 11:30; Jesus: king and high priest; Cursing your children; Jealous God?; kuf-nun-vav-alef - separating yourself from God; kuf = resh + zayin; Christ's command to gather; God's "effect", or "wrath"; To which father are you connected?; "furious" - can you upset God?; Built-in automatic result; "adversaries"? Of righteousness; Doing what Christ said; Socialism is not religion; Reinstituting bonds; Way of righteousness; Nahum investigation involved; Unique words; "enemy"?; Democracy -> Socialism -> Communism; Selfishness; Gal 5:15; Treating only symptoms; Witnessing love and sacrifice; Denominational division; Peculiar people; Preparing for famine; Expecting vengeance; 1 Sam 8 warning; Acquitting the wicked?; Giving responsibly to strengthen the poor; Words missing from translation?; Repentance to get to Christ; God's consequence is slow, but inevitable; Seek real righteousness; Don't complain, repent!