Key Learning from Wednesdays
September 2024
Middle of the Week Bible Study
God takes care of His wayward people, calling us back to faithfulness and promising us aid. The Lord has Good news for us too! Cling to the promises of His Word and feasts (Nahum 1:15) which points forward to the revelation of the Prince of Peace. Meets in the Cafe.
Attributes of God
⁃ Holy
⁃ Merciful
⁃ Glorious
⁃ Omnipotent
⁃ Just
⁃ Dependable
⁃ Faithful
Preach the Gospel, Proclaim salvation in God alone
Christ - Nahum 1:15; Romans 10:15
- A surprising divergences in translations of Chapter 2
⁃ Imagery used to project warnings
• The world, sin, and the devil are predators
• False teachings and worship of false gods
⁃ Natural protections and worldly alliances do not provide shelter
⁃ Imagery
• Ruined branches - Restoration (Promises made to ancestors)
• Mistresses & slave girls - Personification of nation states subject to the Assyrians
• Lions and cubs - Personification of Assyrians as predators
⁃ God will not let evil go unpunished
⁃ Imagery used to project warnings
• Whoring - worshiping other gods
• Lifting of skirts & filth - exposing false teachings
• Thebes by the Nile - Natural proaction’s will not help
• Infants & men in chains - All are guilty
• Fortresses like fig trees - Weakness, Ready for plunder - Self Reliance
• Troops are women in your midst - Lacking in courage, confidence, or hope
• Locusts & grasshoppers - Widespread destruction
• Sleeping Shepherds - Ineffectual guardians