Awaiting the Curse to Come

Scripture:
Whatever you plot against the Lord,
he will bring it to complete destruction;
oppression will not rise up a second time.
Nahum 1:9

Observation: Nehum pronounces a prophesy against Nineveh, and it is this ... you will be completely destroyed to the point that you will not even have descendants or a legacy on earth. This was pronounced at a time when the Assyrians - of which Nineveh was their capital - had conquered Israel and sent the northern kingdom into exile. Yet the prophesy is that they would not destroy Judah, and later they themselves would be wiped from the earth, while actually Israel would survive. All of this proved 100 percent true.

Nineveh itself was a place the Lord had tried to reach with love and kindness and hope. Jonah had explicitly been sent to that city with news they must repent and love Yahweh, and ... they did and were spared. Yet then they turned again and have now rejected the Lord entirely.

This promise in verse 9 is specific about the nature of their future destruction. Whatever the Assyrians have plotted against the Lord, that is what he will do to them. And what did they plot? They plotted ... to blot out the Jewish people forever by conquering their land and then disbursing them into oblivion. Today, Nineveh doesn't exist, and there is no one who could reliably trace their ancestry to Nineveh, though of course Israel exists and the Jewish people are alive across the entire world.

Application: My country is in a plot against the Lord. We have rejected his hope, his word, his love, and his moral teaching. Many are in active rebellion against everything related to the Lord ... not just rejecting his offer of salvation, but actively rejecting the good things he freely offers everyone in life.

And what do the people of this land plot? They plot for the elimination of gender and the corruption of our bodies. So this will be the destiny of this land. Americans will devolve in their physical and emotional health until they are weak in all aspects of life, their hopes deteriorating, and then the nation will dissolve.

Will this curse apply to all Americans? Or will this apply only to those who actively pursue the agenda that encompasses a total rebellion against the Lord? I do not know, but I know God is faithful to his word, and that while he is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love ... his hand will not be withheld forever.

Prayer: Lord, may thy will be done. Amen.