Forward the Message

Nahum 1:15-18 Look! A messenger is coming over the mountains with good news! He is bringing a message of peace. Celebrate your festivals,  O Judah, and fulfill your vows, for your wicked enemies will never invade your land again. They will be completely destroyed.

Nahum is primarily a prophecy of Assyria's and its capital city Nineveh's destruction. This is about 150 years after the Almighty God sent Jonah to call Nineveh to repentance through Jonah. If repentance does not go forward from generation to generation, the LORD God will judge the evil that results. History records the Assyrian leaders returned to pagan worship and engaged in extremely violent warfare. Nahum says this will end. And it did. God used Babylon and other nations to destroy Assyria.
Then comes good news. Out of Assyria's defeat will come peace to Judah for a time. Judah will know when theat happens because a messenger will come to tell the good news of the evil empire's defeat.

God's people will be able to celebrate the three primary festivals of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. They will be able o make vows to the LORD and keep them. God's peace in the land will allow Judah to worship God as he requires.  Did Judah use this peace as God directed? Again, the key to Judah's lasting peace would be to carry the message forward from place to place and generation to generation. They needed to obey God's commands of Deuteronomy 6, to tell their children and to tell all of their faith. The message of God's justice, power and salvation must be told over and over, so all will know.

Today our work is the same. We are blessed to know the Messenger has come with the marvelous goo news of salvation, of peace for our souls forever. Romans 10:8-9 The message is very close at hand. It is on your lips and in our heart. And that message is the very message about faith we preach. If you confess with your mouth Jesus is LORD and believe in your heart God raised him from the dea, you will be saved."

Be a faithful messenger. Forward the message to all.