Nahum—His Message of Doom

About two centuries after Jonah delivered his message of doom to Nineveh, which resulted in a temporary reformation and a postponing of the divine fiat of destruction, the prophet Nahum wrote, pronouncing a sentence of final destruction upon the city for her accumulated sins. At the time he wrote his prophetic scroll, the Assyrian Empire was seemingly at the height of its power. Although Assyria was the scourge in the hand of the Lord for the punishment of His own people, yet the day of her own reckoning was at hand.AGP 140.1

“Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.” Nahum 2:13.AGP 140.2

Thus was emphasized the truth that the Most High rules in the kingdoms of men. He might use other nations, even heathen powers, to afflict His own backslidden people; but these nations, in turn, would not escape His judgments when they had filled up their cup of iniquity.AGP 140.3