https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJgwM79OEk8 Nahum is not a common book to preach from in general, but even so, using it as our platform for discussing the reason and heart behind missions is more than a bit ironic. If any minor prophet is thought to have a missional theme, it would be Jonah, the reluctant prophet whom God sent …
Author Verse 1 blatantly identifies Nahum as the author. Only modern, anti-supernatural scholars argue for a post-exilic author, but this theory has no grounding outside of secularist biases. Theme God will bring judgment upon Nineveh (and the Assyrian Empire) because of the wickedness that they have committed. Background Nothing is known of Nahum outside of …
Are you familiar with the book of Nahum? Forgive me for assuming, but I imagine not. The minor prophets are a rather neglected section of our Bible to begin with, but Nahum seems to be spectacularly unmemorable. I’ve read through God’s Word in its entirety multiple times, so I know that I’ve read Nahum. But …
B. C. Newton 