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Nahum 3:1-4 – Whoredom and Witchcraft

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On August 30, 2013

In Christian, Nahum, Through the Bible

Nahum chapter 3 highlights the justice of God against Nineveh (Assyrians). The verdict on Nineveh is that it was a bloody city, full of lies and robbery, always victimizing (preying on) other nations and afflicting the people of God (Nahum 3:1). It was known for its whoredom and its witchcraft (Nahum 3:4); whoredom of enticing nations to put their trust in her, instead of on the true God (2 Kings 18:28-36) and witchcraft by incanting messages that lured the nations to a false hope of security (2 Kings 18:31), but in the end leading to their death (2 Kings 19:11, Nahum 3:4). So God assured his people that he was raising the Medo-Babylonian armies who will come charging on their battle horses with whips, bright swords and glittering spears, who will destroy the Assyrians, so much so that there will be no end of their corpses (Nahum 3:2-3).

Points to ponder:
The world today is a sinful, a generation engaging in whoredom (adultery/harlotry) (Mark 8:38). It attempts to draw us away from Christ Jesus (1 John 2:15-17) by its incantations of false hope and woe is anyone who gets enticed by such witchcraft. Let us be in the world but not of the world (John 17:14-15; John 15:19; Romans 12:2) and let us not be enticed and lured into putting our trust in anyone or anything else, except in Jesus Christ. Let us love not the world but Love God with all of ours.

Nahum 3:1-7 (KJV)
1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

1 John 2:15-17 (KJV)
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Masks

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On November 5, 2009

In Christian

Mayan MaskShakespeare quoted in Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 – ‘God hath given you one face and you make yourself another’. At Chichen Itza, we bought a beautiful Mayan mask (see image) as a decorative artifact for our home. The mask is intricately designed and when placed in front of your face, it hides the contours and shades of the face. But no matter how much it masquerades the face, the wearer is still the same person. As I admired the intricacies of the handiwork in the mask, I was reminded of how we all wear masks as well and could relate with Apostle Paul when he wrote, ‘the things I want to do, I do not do and the things I do not want to do, I do.’ (Romans 7:15).

We only showcase the ‘good’ to the world around us, hiding the ‘bad’ and the ‘ugly’ aspects of our lives behind the masks we wear. While we may be able to successful hide our ‘real’ self from men behind the saintly masks we wear, there is no hiding from God. In fact, when we play double agents with God, what we are essentially doing is
1. denying the omniscience of God stating God does not know.
2. challenging the righteousness of God and ignoring his justice stating God does not care.

But thankfully, God is not interested in the masks we wear, He is interested in our bad and ugly lives. Unless the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us clean, we are sold under sin (Romans 7:14). We must first remove our mask before God and then before men/women for in not doing so, we are like men/women who are false prophets, deceitful workmen/workwomen, who masquerade as the apostles of Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:13-15). When we remove our masks before God, coming to Him as a sinner, the only response evoked is one of acceptance, wherein God accepts you and me just as we are. He removes the masks from our lives and lets the world see who we really are – His children.

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