Session 239: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah “God Is Just, But Merciful, Offers Hope” and “It’s Ok To Gripe To God, But....."

Nahum: 612BC, just before Ninevah, the Capitol of Assyria, was destroyed by Babylon that year.

-God is just, but also merciful
-Destruction predicted for Assyria, HOPE for Judah. 

Habakkuk:  605-597BC. Worry about Babylon. Is basically a gripe session to God, yet see 3:17-19 “I will rejoice in the Lord, my strength!”

Zephaniah-640-609BC (Just before Jeremiah and Habakkuk.)  (See 2 Kings 22 for background.)

“The Day of the Lord”= Doom, judgment. But, HOPE (for Judah, and US!) 3:16-20.