NAHUM (5): Vengeance Vindicated (Nahum 2:13 - 3:19)

In Nahum 3, God spells out the righteous reasons for His total judgement of Nineveh, including her constant cruelty, harlotry, sorcery, deception, robbery and slavery. We explain her sin of harlotry as leading nations into greater idolatry and worship of false gods, and how it relates to the harlot sitting on the beast in Revelation 17. God describes His judgement on Assyria in terms of the Babylonian custom of the time of humiliating and disgracing a harlot by uncovering her in public, so that men would no longer be captivated and seduced by her. Likewise, God declared that He would remove His covering of protection over Assyria, so that her apparently strong defences will quickly evaporate before His invading armies, in order that her harlot religion would be exposed to all as corrupt and empty, and all her gods, goddesses, and occultism as powerless before God, so that they would turn from the Assyrian gods and idols, and instead worship and serve the living God.