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God told Jonah Nineveh was saved - now he destroys it anyway

                        A SCEPTICAL BIBLE READING OF THE BOOK OF NAHUM

                          

                                   Chapter One

A harsh uncompromising prophesy of the divine destruction of Nineveh. Coming only two books after Jonah saved the country from Divine destruction. The Ninevians have lapsed back into evil very quickly, God has changed his mind yet again, or the events in Jonah’s prophecy are bogus.  There is no reference to those events in this volume. It seems a shame as we last saw Jonah disappointed that God had chosen not to trash Nineveh. He might have appreciated being around to see God doing just that after offering such humanitarian reasons for not doing so to shut Jonah up.  This is God at the height of his psychotic behavior.

 

The first Nineveh will learn of God’s wrath is rock fall landslides on the towns and the sea tides going out but not returning. Army chariots will burst into flames in the streets.  Nahum reminds us that God is good despite this but gives no logical reason or evidence why we should accept this view. He seems to be trying to convince even himself.

                               

Chapter Two

 

Huzzab, The Ruler of Nineveh, will be captured by enemies and enslaved. This at least suggests there will be survivors. The disaster Noah averted would have involved total extermination.

                                Chapter Three

God calls the country a prostitute with her skirts raised. He plans to expose her shame before the World so we all feel disgusted by her before God destroys her. The poetics are powerful here, with Nahum clearly carried away by the comparisons between the city and a harlot, but its relentless sense of bloodshed leaves no room for the loving God Nahum wants us to think is behind all this.

 

The full online text to Nahumhttp://www.gospelhall.org/bible/bible.php?passage=Nahum+1

 

Arthur Chappell

 

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