2011-10-09 - What Goes Around Comes
Around
Part 17 ~ Nahum
Verses 12-17: Nahum uses a number of similes here to describe the
fall of the nation. The city is being consumed. No matter how the nation
prepares, she can do nothing to defend herself. She's like ripe fruit, just
waiting to be shaken into the mouths of her enemies.
The military is like a bunch of women waiting to be taken. And the city is
totally unprotected, with the gates wide open for the taking, their bars
having been destroyed by fire. And as earlier in the prophecy, the nation
is instructed in methods of self-preservation, but these steps will be useless.
First the people are instructed to gather water, a necessity to survive a
siege. The wall work also needed to be repaired. After all, the walls would
protect them from the attack of their enemies, right? Right!
Once the merchants of Assyria were like locusts, swarming over other nations,
stripping them for the benefit of the Assyrians. The leadership of the nation
also was locust-like in the destruction it wrought on others. But now the
swarm was turning and destroying all that Assyria had accomplished. Where
once she stripped others, now she was being stripped. Again, a case of "what
goes around comes around."
To be continued.
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Geoff
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