Nahum – Punishment for Sin
“There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear of your destruction will clap their hands for joy. Where can anyone be found who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?” Nahum 3:19 The Assyrian people had sinned and sinned and sinned. It was just a way of life for them. They were an evil people. When people want to point a finger and say that God is wrong, that God permits evil and does nothing about evil, God in Nahum is saying that I do something about evil. God is just and righteous. God is a loving God, but a loving God will not allow evil to go unpunished. He was a God of love when He destroyed Nineveh and wiped it like a clean dish. It disappeared off the face of the map and off the face of the earth and God took full responsibility. I know that this seems like a God that does not love, but God gave Nineveh more than one change to turn from their sins and repent. God wanted them to follow Him and live the life that He had in mind for them from the beginning. God wants all of us to turn from our sins and come to Him in repentance. “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)