• Nahum 3:1
  • Nahum 2:1-10
  • Nahum’s prophecies fulfilled
    • #1: The city would be destroyed by a flood (Nahum 2:6-8)
      • 612 BC – A flood weakens the walls, allowing invaders to overtake the city.
    • #2: Ninevah would be burned and her riches taken as spoil (Nahum 2:9-10, 13; 3:13-15)
    • #3: The citizens would be slaughtered (Nahum 2:11-13; 3:3, 18)
    • #4: The capital city would be completely devastated (Nahum 1:12-15; 3:6-7, 19)
      • Later historians reported the city to be completely destroyed.
      • Zephaniah 2:13
      • Ninevah was rediscovered in the 1800s.
    • God will punish sinners
      • Nahum 1:1-6
      • Why did God preserve this story for us? As a warning about how He deals with sinners.
      • Deuteronomy 7:9-11
      • Nahum 1:9-10 – No defense is sufficient if God is against you.
      • II Thessalonians 1:6-10
    • God will protect the righteous
      • Nahum 1:7
      • Nahum 1:15
      • Romans 10:13-17 – If God could protect Judah from Assyria, He can protect us from Satan.