INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
NAHUM - CHAPTER 2
"The Assyrians have been abusive to Jacob, the 2 tribes (have humbled & mortified them), as well as to Israel, the 10 tribes, have emptied them, & marred their vine-branches. For this God will reckon with them" "When the God of heaven goes forth to contend with a people, neither the palaces nor their kings, neither the temples nor their gods, can protect & shelter them, but must all inevitably fall with them." "God can dispirit the strongest & boldest, in the day of distress" "Guilt in the conscience will fill men with terror in an evil day, & those who place their happiness in the wealth of this world & set their hearts upon it think themselves undone when their silver, & their gold, & their pleasant furniture are taken from them." "...those that fear the Lord, & get what they have honestly, shall not want" Psalms 34:10 "The wealth they have heaped up by fraud & violence shall neither be enjoyed by them nor employed for them" CHAPTER 3 "Ninevah had with her cruelties been a terror & destruction to others, & therefore destruction & terror shall be brought upon her." "Those that showed no pity in the day of their power can expect to find no pity in the day of their fall." "The greater men's show was in the day of their abused prosperity the greater will their shame be in the day of their deserved destruction." "When proud sinners are humbled & brought down it is designed that others should take example by them not to lift up themselves in security & insolence when they prosper in the world." "Strongholds, even the strongest, are no fence against the judgments of God" "The judgment they are under is a wound, & it is incurable; there is no relief for it, 'no healing of thy bruise'" "Those that have been abusive to their neighbours will, one time or another, find it come home to them" HABAKKUK - CHAPTER 1 "It is sad to see bad men warming their hands at those flames which are devouring all that is good in a nation, & stirring up the fire too." "The abounding of wickedness in a nation is a very great eye-sore to good people" "When God's professing people quarrel among themselves, snarl at, & devour one another, it is just with God to bring the common enemy upon them, that shall make peace by making a universal devastation." "Those who have been unjust & unmerciful, among whom the law is slacked, & judgment doth not go forth, will justly be paid in their own coin & fall into the hands of those who will deal unjustly & unmercifully with them." "It is a great offence (& the common offence of proud people) to take that glory to ourselves, or to give it to gods of our own making, which is due to the living & true God only." "...a haughty spirit, lifted up against God, goes before a fall." "It is matter of great & continual comfort to God's people, under the troubles of this present life, that their God is from everlasting." "While the world stands God will have a church in it." "...for Christ ...He is the rock on which the church is so firmly built that the gates of hell shall not, cannot, prevail against it. We shall not die." "God's people need correction, & deserve it; they must expect it; they shall have it; when wicked men are let loose against them, it is not for their destruction, that they may be ruined, but for their correction, that they may be reformed; they are not intended for a sword, to cut them off, but for a rod, to drive out the foolishness that is found in their hearts" "There is a proneness in us to take the glory of our outward prosperity to ourselves, & to say, My might, & the power of my hands, have gotten me this wealth, Deuteronomy 8:17. This is idolizing ourselves" CHAPTER 2 "...God not only speaks to us by his word, but speaks in us by our own consciences, whispering to us, This is the way, walk in it; & we must attend to the voice of God in both." "Those that expect to hear from God must withdraw from the world... ...must raise their attention, fix their thought, study the scriptures... ...continue instant in prayer" "God... will not disappoint the believing expectations of his people that wait to hear what he will say unto them, but will speak peace, will answer them with good words & comfortable words, Zechariah 1:13." "God has an appointed time for his appointed work, & will be sure to do the work when the time comes; it is not for us to anticipate his appointments, but to wait his time." "The promise may seem silent a great while, but at the end it shall speak; & therefore, though it tarry longer than we expected, yet we must continue waiting for it" "Those who are truly good, & whose hearts are upright with God, will value the promise, & venture their all upon it" "If great men be proud men, the great God will make them know he is above them." "No more of what we have is to be reckoned ours than what we came honestly by; nor will it long be ours, for wealth gotten by vanity will be diminished." "The violence done by proud men to advance & enrich themselves will be called over again (& must be accounted for) another day, by him to whom vengeance belongs." "Covetousness is a very evil thing in a family; it bring disquiet & uneasiness into it" "Those that cut off, or undermine, others, to make room for themselves, that impoverish others to enrich themselves, do but consult shame to their houses, & fasten upon them a mark of infamy." "Theirs are dumb idols; ours is Jehovah, a living God, who is what he is, & not, as theirs, what men please to make him. He is in his holy temple in heaven, the residence of his glory, where we have access to him in the way, not which we have invented, but which he himself has instituted." "Be still & know that he is God, Zechariah 2:13." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Isaiah to Malachi, Mac Donald, pgs. 1344 - 1365.
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