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"The LORD has given a command concerning you"

Text: Nahum 1:14

A DIVINE DECREE

Assyria felt smug and certain about itself as a great empire. But it had not reckoned with a divine decree that God alone could determine and issue.

“The LORD has given a command concerning you:
‘Your name shall be perpetuated no longer.
Out of the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the molded image.
I will dig your grave,
For you are vile.'”
Nahum 1:14

1. “The LORD has given a command concerning you”

a) The command from the Lord was “a divine decree”.

b) This decree concerned Assyria.

2. The name of Assyria

a) The Assyrian had obtained “a name”.

b) Their reputation as a formidable empire was one that brought fear to the hearts of many.

3. The perpetuation of the reputation and name of Assyria

a) Assyria’s name would come to an end.

b) God Himself would cut off the idols that Assyria worshipped.

4. “I will dig your grave, for you are vile”

a) God will personally see to the demise of Assyria.

b) Assyria had obtained a vile reputation that God would put to an end!

A SIGNIFICANT RELEVANT TEXT

Psalm 94 is most insightful and of significance and bearing to the judgment and fate of Assyria.

“O LORD God to whom vengeance belongs-
O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
Render punishment to the proud…
He has brought on them their own iniquity,
And shall cut them off in their own wickedness;
The LORD our God shall cut them off.”
Psalm 94:1-2, 23

1. The LORD God, He is the Judge of the earth and vengeance belongs to Him.

2. God will indeed cut off the wicked for their iniquity; He will indeed cut off the Assyrians and cause them to be defeated and destroyed.

3. The fate of the Assyrian was sealed the moment God issued His Divine decree.