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All Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe Podcasts
"niniveh" Discussed on All Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe Podcasts
"Happens after three is describing the sole on round to this time getting things right but it's also going to highlight specifically the role that yokip her and the high holidays that they play in repentance and the sulf-fulfilling its mission so chapter three begins. The word of the lower came to joan a second time. This is a description of the soul being reincarnated and given the exact same mission as it was given in round one arise golden. Inveigh go to the great city and proclaim what i will tell you. Unlike the first time when jono with a sole tried to escape and go to a different place go to tarshish and non over the will of god this time. Joan obliges he just inveigh in accordance. With the lord's command and we're told ninfa was large city. It took three days to walk across it in unusual statistic about the size of the city so the way the village planes this is that the righteous they walk with god every day fact. We're told many times we should walk to the ways. I wish walk with god. Abraham walk with god. That's a refrain. Some motif that repeats itself throughout the toro here. We're told the city of new inveigh wasn't like it was a three days walk across means that there was three days that'll walk with god was three days where took god seriously and they are number one the first day of l. I developed lsd repentant season. The first day was blown to show for. And that's that one day they took god seriously. And of course. The days are russia sean kipper and god sends the sulky. Now your jobs your mission to take a city that's three days water across and transform into a city that's always joaquin with god. The narrative is going to show how the high holidays are so central to getting it right. The second time so join us starts out made his way to the city and he travels a distance of one day and he proclaims in forty more days niniveh will be overthrown so again the first stated he arrives that the description of the first of these three days that it takes seriously. That's the first day rush quotas aloe and the sole is trying to awaken to repent any streams is only forty. Days until judgment is rendered on young kipper. We know that this second forty days from the beginning of the month fellow until young kipper. And you know what it's working. The people of invaded believe in god and proclaim a fast. And the great and small. Like they put on sackcloth and even the scene mates dramatic news. The news reaches the king of inveigh. He gets up from his throne. He takes off his robe. He puts on sackcloth and he sits in ashes. the entire people they put on sackcloth. The keen goes a step further. He actually sits in ashes. There's two points if first of all you'll notice that the people they begin their process of repentance earlier and only subsequently does the keen began his process. What that's meeting tells us. The commentary for the king is a representation of people who are haughty.
The Bible Project
"niniveh" Discussed on The Bible Project
"The bible to read and you get a. There's too much to do here when the narrative picks up again. Who do we meet. But some of the strangest characters in the bible genesis. Six people are multiplying on the face of the land. Oh yeah yeah. Through the line of seth that replaced cain replaced able and now through the line of cain and his murderous city. And we we've heard some about them. Here's something else that happened in that day. The sons of god which is a standard reference in the hebrew bible for spiritual beings spiritual beings saw the human daughters of men were in hebrew good and they took for themselves wives. Whomever they chose they saw that something was good in the took it this whole sentence is mapped in hebrew. Right on to genesis. Three or six. The woman saw that the tree was good. The light to the is desirable for wisdom and she took from it. So this is going to be a key design pattern in the hebrew bible to signify. This is a fall moment. the is somebody failing. They had great opportunity and they're failing so the spiritual beings are having their their fall moment. You had the humans in the garden being tempted by spiritual being and now you have spiritual beings being tempted by human women. Do you see the inversion of genesis. Three woman and the snake. Now you have spiritual beings and women. So here's the crazy thing that happens. Is genesis six verse three the rabbit hole step around the rabbit hole here God says that from this moment forward hundred and twenty years and whether he's talking about the lifetime of humans or the amount of years starting the countdown to the flood. Two different options there. I think the second one's more compelling the point of the narrators would. He really wants to tell us you know. There were giants neville lame. We're in the land in those days and you know also out of these marriages between the sons of god and the human daughters came to give ordering mighty warriors old. Do we just read something about a mighty warrior of old. Oh yeah it's one of them who built the city of babylon nimrod. He was gay board. Here's a mighty warrior one of these violent warrior guys. He's like cain he's like he's like the mutant offspring of the sons of god and women and he's the one who builds the next city after kane. This is the second city being built after kane and then also what does he build niniveh so dc. There's a somebody wants us to watch the development of human civilization being built on the blood of the innocent violent warriors who found cities on the blood of the innocent human human history right. This is what tap this jona won. One go to nevada that great city which is tied into this legacy that comes right from the fall in the garden and kane and so what regularly happens. Is humans build. The city of blood. An outcry goes up to god in god acts and does something about it. No genesis six. So what happens after this moment with the spiritual beings. Y'all way saw that. Humans are really on the hebrew word. Here you learn it. And like the first week of hebrew the word evil or bad or isn't hebrew raw in english. The word evil has a philosophical layer of like natural evil inherent evil moral evil and rock can refer to that rock can also refer to a circumstance situation that hurts people and to is raw so in other words in hebrew the word raw is more focused on the outcome of a ross situation and so usually raw situations are caused by people who have raw intentions. But sometimes you can also use the word rod to just refer to something that happens to you. We just english well. No we don't say. I had an evil. We had a bad day so raw sometimes mean but means bad some depending on context. Sometimes it means evil. Be relevant for the book of john. Okay so now. We saw the the raw of humanity was great on the earth and the every intent of his thoughts was only raw all the time so the lord was sorry that he made humans on the earth and they teach you this word which is of utmost importance for the book of jonah to be sorry some translations have regret. Do you ever regret maybe in right there. In genesis six maybe some translations have regret. Some of your translation might have to change one's mind so we'll start with that it's the hebrew word nam nam. The lord hummed that he made humans on the earth and he was grieved in his heart so he always said. I'm gonna block out humanity that i've created on the faith of the land from hugh beast to human man animal from the birds of and to the birds of the sky. Of course not the fish there are going to be defined four. I com that i even created them except one guy. There's one chosen one. Yeah no walk. So god knock comes over all humanity. Except noah he hums except noah you get it. It's the same hebrew letters it's a word. Play yeah okay so this track. Just follow that. Follow the themes here. You guys we've got an eden like setup we've got some kind of act of violence or fall or evil. We have the building of a city. We have an outcry of innocent blood and that rises up to god yes Then we have chosen one. Yeah who's rescued. How is he rescued in the. That's gonna follow right here through the waters. Yes rescued through the waters. The flood and then check this out is going to be rescued through the waters. he's told Look at this genesis. Six thirteen the end of all flesh has come before me. The sentence that must be made over humanity has come up before me very interesting phrase the end it was the blood of abel that came up before him in genesis four. Now it's the end of humanity. A death sentence as come up before me because the earth is filled with hamas violence gonna ruin my world. Have to clear my world of these violent creatures except for you so make the arc familiar story so just to register a couple things. The reign of god's judgment falls on the earth for forty days. Forty nights fast forward. No gets off the boat. He and his family are saved. This is genesis chapter eight and no it gets off the boat. What's the first thing he does is what can enable were doing. He built an altar. And where is he. He's on mountain mountain. The boat lands on a mountain and he built alter and all of a sudden he just like hair starts acting like a priest..
Historically Thinking
"niniveh" Discussed on Historically Thinking
"Eight hundred years after their belts and really To destroy those wells. You needed the canons. That the ottomans broad And then it's also surrounded on three sides by water but it's very fast moving current and so two besieged the city successfully. You need to be seated by land and sea and in six twenty six. It's the first time that you have a persian force that can mobilize a c- Siege and a land attack. that's coming from the balkans. I answer the city and six twenty. Six is in real danger of falling i and the emperor has not the army anywhere near cousin to relieve it instead. He has invaded persia to to get persia to withdraw from all of the territory in syria israel and egypt that had seized in the tall off what we call turkey. I mean basically the and also by this time. They've conquered egypt also as christians. They've taken jerusalem and they re remove the true cross from the holy sepulcher. I mean this is like apocalyptic crap this is. This is second king's this is you know this is revelation stuff going on and so herat left the defensive constantinople to Basically the patriarch of constantinople and he leads processions around the walls and asks the virgin mary. Come in defend the city and end. Constantinople is more or less left to defend itself while iraq campaigns five hundred miles away concerts and survives the siege louis. Making a sort of a hail. Mary pass exactly. That's exactly what it is it's You know the last force. The romans possessed capable of fighting in the field. He does not use it to reconquer. The territory roma's lost because it can't instead. He goes through the mountains of armenia and he tries to go down into the heartland of the persian empire from the north where the defenses are not as good and attack persia. You know from the inside without worrying about retaking territory. He lost because he doesn't have the capacity ticket back and the persian responses to knock out the capital constantinople. Felons six twenty six. That would be the story would be over. You know that army would do whatever it could to march. It's way back to so brighter. Preserve something of the state but the state would be gone. A six twenty six is this moment this apocalyptic moment in harasses allies in constantinople. Don't hesitate to say this. You know this is the apocalypse. This is the christians versus the anti christ. If we saw christianity will fall it is up to us to preserve you know god and jesus and all of the things that we hold to be central to this world that we've created. It's a win. They win at the siege of constantinople. This validate some of that approach but ultimately harasses hail. Mary works and he win. Yeah all places niniveh. I mean these are places out of the old testament. These battles are being fought. It would be better for box. Office was armageddon..
The Bible Project
"niniveh" Discussed on The Bible Project
"Here. Let me show you guys a couple others couple other times that these versus get recorded. Let's look at how it gets used in the prophets. Let's go to joel chapter two. So in the book jol he's experiencing. He's watching a drought which causes a famine in the land of israel. And then there's a locust swarm and if you know the covenant key covenant passages in the torah like leviticus twenty. Six deuteronomy twenty eight. You know those things are result of god. Removing his protective hand blessing on israel the result of covenant violation is what he calls the people to do in response. Joel to thirteen this actually famous. I i don't know. Is this another bumper sticker verse from the bible one. It is a good one. I'll just go ahead and read it. He says to the people rend your hearts and not your garments return to the lord your god because he is gracious and compassionate slow to anger abounding and loyal love and Relenting of Doing harm we're doing catastrophe raw. Yeah so notice. He's just quoted from what we call verse six of exit thirty four. He's on the quoted from the first positive half which is interesting. yeah the god goodies. God good is it's as if what he sees around them is the result of her seven. Right 'cause in he sees at locust plague famine and he thinks this is all a result of covenant rebellion and. So here is god is not clearing the guilty in these visiting the iniquity right on us but even in the midst of god's judgment he knows the god has a soft spot for people who turned to him in humility. I think this is why he told jeremiah. Not to pray for the people. It's the same idea. And so he says listen if we turn back to god we can count on the fact that he will respond in some way. At least this is a very common way that the versus get used people in trouble and they say let's turn to god cry out to god because he's like this yeah a lot of the quotations. You have here just quote from the first half this right. This is a good one about god. Soft spot. john it's from the re purposing of these words in jonah. Oh yeah in. China yes john. I'll i'll let you read it. This is from john chapter four. Yes the forgotten chapter. Yeah that's right. This is right after the people of of a turn to god and god forgives The city and the people on the king of nevada. That's where the story books and But there's another chapter. Join a gets angry. A greatly displeased joan and he became angry. He prayed to the lord and said please lord was not this what i said why was still in my own country therefore in order to forestall this for stolnis this your translation. No this is new. New american standard. I think therefore in order to prevent this i fled to tarshish for. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate. God slow to anger in abundant and loyal love and one relents concerning raw concerning doing calamity. Yeah so this is sarcastic. Yeah is that the right word. For artistic yes. Yeah he's like. I know this of you and so i didn't want to go to niniveh because i don't like those guys. And they don't deserve your patient mercy. Yeah he's angry. That god is this way towards other people that he doesn't like but of course. What was it that moved god to have a fish like vomit him out so that he would live and not die. The narrative doesn't say but the implication is because god was gracious and compassionate with him. But then somehow the moment god is compassionate. We're back to god's consistency. He says this is why. I didn't want to go to the city of niniveh. Because i know you have the soft spot for people no matter who they are to turn to you and you always forgive them and make like there is nothing that could do to stop this consistency of god. Yes that's right yeah. We're back to that consistency theme. The god doesn't play favors s and with every generation. Apparently with any people group he will always operate according to exit thirty four six and seven so much so that you can jona can like throw these words. And god's face accusation almost well. Yeah and he could take those words the bank. He doesn't like the night so much. Yeah and he believes god's character so much decides to take off. Yeah that's interesting. Yeah it is okay. So joel that uses from joel gave people sitting in hardship. But they know that god will be gracious. Let tumbler ourselves in. Certain jonah flips over the prophet mayhem Does something interesting. What he does is turn up the volume on verse seven on the the the intense parts and so this is a whole book. That is a prophet. Who's commenting on the downfall of the assyrians the assyrian empire and the downfall of the city of niniveh. Which joan uh you know that features in the book of jonah. So we're talking about empire that ruled the ancient near east for centuries with iron-fist. I mean they would like peel off people's skin public. It's public shame punishment and like put heads on spikes of cities they conquered i. It was gnarly so the whole ancient world was rejoicing. When niniveh fell to the babylonians and so name writes this poem to talk about how he believes. y'all way is the one behind the downfall of navan. This is from chapter one. Maybe chris that you want to read it your chapter one versus two three. A jealous is at the same word for jealous. There must be a jealous. Avenging god is the lord. The lord is avenging and wrathful the lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and he reserves his wrath for his enemies and then the quotation the lord is slow to anger and great and power and the lord will by no means. Leave the guilty unpunished. Yeah that's intense. what's interesting though. Is that these verses are written about an oppressor to god's people and it also kind of makes me wonder about the exodus passage if that not clearing the guilty It's multifaceted but farrow is one of the ones who sinned the most in this in the narrative and he was oppressing the people i don't know i wonder if there's some connection to taking vengeance on those who are oppressing The weaker for sure. Yeah the most intense forms of divine anger in the bible are aimed at leaders of people israelite or non israelite who abused their positions of power without a doubt. That's a great observation. That's really worth observing. What's interesting here. Is that the way that the language of x. Thirty four six and seven is quoted so name one verse three. The lord is slow to anger and he's great and what should come is in loyal love covenant love but what he says is great empower you and then he adds from birth seven of exodus thirty four the lord won't Declare innocent guilty or he won't leave guilty punished. So what's interesting about. That is to say that he's great and loyal love. That's a covenant term. He's going to stick by his covenant. Will y'all is not in a covenant with the nation of assyria so he doesn't use that word loyal love because he's never made a covenant promise to syria but he is great in power which means that he oversees..
Jesus Stories
"niniveh" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"Of satan cannot be thrown out by satan and he says what about your own exorcisms. You can throw out demons to. Are you doing this. By the power of satan. Jesus has torn the logic of their statement apart satan cat throw himself out and stand and he obviously stands. And you do exercises but this can't be by the power of satan. This only leads to one other power to consider and that is that these demons are being thrown out by the spirit of god. But if i am casting out demons by the spirit of god then the kingdom of god has arrived among you only someone who is stronger than satan can throw satan out. But jesus is not done with his teaching. the crowds. and the pharisees he next asserts. Anyone who isn't with me opposes me and anyone who is at working with me is actually working against me. In other words there is no middle ground concerning. Jesus he says you either have to work with me or you work against me. He continued by saying that every sin and blasphemy can be forgiven except for the blasphemy against the holy spirit. Now what is that. Remember these pharisees of just told the crowd that the exorcism of a demon out of this man brought to jesus was a work of satan. Not the work of the holy spirit and remember we defined the holy spirit as the presence of jehovah god on earth. So the pharisees are saying that what jehovah god did in throwing out. A demon was the work of satan that is a blasphemy and that is what jesus says cannot be forgiven. Blasphemy against jesus can be forgiven but speaking against the holy spirit cannot be forgiven then. Jesus gets really personal. We identify a tree by looking at its fruit. A good tree has good fruit. A bad tree has bad fruit but you snakes and yes. He calls snakes. You can't say anything that is good and right. That's because you harbor evil in your heart. If your hearts were good you would speak good things but your hearts are evil so you speak evil things and i tell you he continues and when he says that you better listen to what he's saying after this point he says you must give an account on judgment day. For every idle word you speak the words you say will either acquit you or condemn you standing nearby. Listening to all of this was jesus physical family. His half brothers. They tried to take him away claiming that jesus was out of his mind. Then some of the teachers of the religious law. And some pharisees make a demand couched in what looks like a request teacher. We want you to show us a miraculous signed. Prove your authority. It looks like they have then pay attention. Jesus responds with a direct challenge to them. Your demand for assign only shows that you're evil. In fact the only sign you will be given is the side of jona woo. We'd better stop and explain. You may have heard the story of jonah. He was a jewish prophet. Who received a message from jehovah god to go to the city of niniveh to preach now none of was not a jewish city. Belong to the gentile. The non jewish world. So jota didn't want to go so. He hired passage on a boat and went off in the other direction. While on the boat a storm comes up not just a little storm either. This was a huge storm. That threat belies of everyone on board this boat. Everyone's praying to their gods jonuz encouraged to pray to god. As well and june he comes clean with the crew. He says that the only way to save the crew in the boat is to throw him overboard because he's running away..
National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"niniveh" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Father. We come before you humbly. In jesus name through the precious blood of the lamb and where we lift up our nation to you in this hour and this moment. God as we're coming into the abrasion of our independence lord. God were a nation. That's lost its way and more all we can do is look to you in cry out to you and ask you to to move upon the people In your church in this moment you said if my people which are called on my main would humble themselves and seek your face and turn from their wicked ways then you would hear from heaven you would forgive our sins. Heal our land and god. We asked for a healing to come across this nation lord spirit soul and body. God that The leaders of this nation would be convicted in their hearts lord of the true foundation of this nation. The true foundation going. Which is your word. And jesus christ himself lowered. We're we confess. Certainly that we were not a perfect nation in any way but god that you blessed our nation lord even through our faults and our failures in our sins god and more when we look to you. You heal our land. You brought us a out of the sin of slavery. God you bought us out of the sin of Of of battlefield fatigue. You you brought us out of the doldrums of the dens of iniquity gone and only you can do this in this our father. God lord we asked you to move mightily upon your people in this church lord even as pastor. Ray preach god that you would raise up preachers in this moment. Lord that would speak. Bell saith the lord god the dave wilkerson the billy. Graham's gone the. Billy sunday's The a mortar cayennes. God those that lifted up your name. The william seymour's lord those that Who would not give up. Until they felt the touch of god on their soul and the touch of god on their message lord and we thank you father that you're moving even in the times where lord we we we think it's A a a loss deal a lost battle guy but those are the moments it seems that you move The most god even as joan went into niniveh lord and he said yet forty days in mid of shelby destroyed and god. It may be forty days forty weeks from our destruction. If we don't turn to you but more in this moment you could raise up a preacher. You could raise up a prophet in this hour. that would say yet So much time and america's coming to its own destruction but more if we would hear the word by the spirit if we would hear the word faith lord You would come in rushing and save us. Lord yes sense your word and you healed them and delivered them from all their destructions lord and in this moment make your word more real make your a personage more real. Make your reality more real to the people of god in america once again the that we would be even as president. Reagan said. that's city that a set on a hill cannot be hid little. Lois be that city once again. Only by your grace not by power. Not by my but by your spirit..
Timesuck with Dan Cummins
"niniveh" Discussed on Timesuck with Dan Cummins
"Mountains of her native media the northwestern part of modern day iran. A part of what makes this an h. Wonder museum is the idea of making the desert bloom with life it would have taken an unprecedented feat of engineering and horticulture to pull this off scientists. Think that a pretty complicated system of pumps water wheels and sister and would have been employed to raise in deliver the water from the nearby phrase river to the top of the guards and they would have had to be the right shading for various types of plans Would anyone have had the agricultural knowledge to keep those plants life saturday. There are no firsthand accounts of the desert oasis. The multiple greek and roman accounts of the hanging gardens were secondhand and really more like twentieth and they were written centuries after the wonders alleged destruction. Finding i ten evidence of the hanging gardens is one of the holy grails of archaeology. A group of german archaeologists spent two decades attorney twentieth century trying to unearth signs of this ancient wonder without any luck lack of any relics cost skeptics to question whether the supposed desert wonder just in his just a historical mirage. However dr stephanie dolly retired fellow a research fellow and part of the oriental institute at oxford university believes she has found evidence of the existence of this legendary for people with allergies in her book. The mystery of the hanging gardens of babylon elusive world wonder traced published by oxford university. Press dally asserts that the reason why no traces of the hanging gardens have been found in babylon is because they were never built there in the first place which you think they were built right idea wrong place. Dally who spent the better part of two decades researching hanging gardens and studying. Ancient cuneiform texts believes they were constructed three hundred miles to the north of babylon in knin of niniveh. The capital of the rival. Assyrian empire she asserts the assyrian king. Oh boy Snack rib snuka rib. built marvel not nebulizer the seconds and he built it in the early seven century. Bc essentially earlier than scholars previously thought. So even more wondrous according to oxford university dolly who is a scholar ancient languages found evidence that new translations of the ancient texts of king sonacaremedical That described his own unrivalled palace and wonder for all peoples also mentioned lebron's water raising screw similar to archimedes screw developed for centuries later could have been used irrigate the guards recent excavations around nydia or boy recent excavations around niniveh. There we go. I think Near the modern iraqi city of mosul have uncovered evidence of an extensive aqueduct system that delivered water from the mountains with inscription Snuka rib king of the world over distance. I had a watercourse directed to the environs of niniveh right crazy that may have built a been built in seventh century. Bc over twenty six centuries ago bass released from the royal palace in niniveh depicted a lush garden watered by an aqueduct. And unlike the flat surroundings. Babylon the more rugged topography around the assyrian. Capital would have made the logistical challenges in elevating water to the gardens. Far easier for an ancient civilization to overcome. Del explains the reason for the confusion of the location of the.
Boring Books for Bedtime
"niniveh" Discussed on Boring Books for Bedtime
"By twenty five hundred bc that is between the time of sargon the first and hammurabi creighton civilization was at seen with knossos was not so much town as a great palace for the creighton monarch and his people. It was not even fortified. It was only fortified later. As the phoenicians grew strong and as a new and more terrible breed of pirates the greeks came upon the see from the north. The monarch was called me knows as the egyptian monarch was called pharaoh and he kept his state in a palace fitted with running water with bathrooms and the light conveniences. Such as we know of in no other ancient remains there he held great festivals and shows. There was bullfighting. Singularly like the bullfighting that still survives. In spain there was resemblance. Even in the costumes of the ball fighters and there were gymnastic displays. The women's clothes were remarkably modern in spirit. They wore corsets and flounced dresses. The pottery the textile manufacturers the sculpture painting jewelry is very metal and inlay. Work of these crayton's was often stunningly beautiful. And they had a system of writing but that still remains to be deciphered. This happy and sunny and civilized life lasted for some score of centuries about two thousand b. See knossos and babylon abounded in comfortable and cultivated people who probably led very pleasant lives they had shows and they had religious festivals they had domestic slaves to look after them and industrial slaves to make a profit for them. Life must've seemed very secure in knossos. For such people sunlit and girdled by the blue see egypt of course must've appeared rather a declining country in those days under the rule of her half barbaric shepherd kings and if one took an interest in politics. One must have noticed how the semitic people seem to be getting everywhere ruling egypt ruling distant babylon building niniveh on the upper tigris sailing west to the pillars of hercules at the straits of gibraltar and setting up their colonies distant coasts. There were some active arid curious minds and knossos because later on the greek stone legends of a certain skillful creighton artifice. Our data less. Who attempted to make some sort of flying machine perhaps a glider which collapsed and fell into the sea. It is interesting to note. Some of the differences as well as the resemblances between the life of knossos and our own to creighton. Gentlemen of five hundred. Bc iron was a rare metal which fell out of the sky and was curious rather than useful for his yet. Only meteoric iron was known. Iron had not been obtained from its oars. Compare that with our modern state of affairs pervaded by iron everywhere. The horse again would be quite a legendary creature to our creighton which lived in the bleak new lands far away beyond the black sea civilization for him dwelt chiefly energy in greece and asia minor wherein libyan's and to carry ins and trojans lived a life and probably spoke languages. Mike his own there were phoenicians. Ended giens settled in spain and north africa but those were very remote regions to his imagination. Italy was still a desolate land covered with dense forests. The brand skin did trust skins had not yet gone there from asia minor and one day. Perhaps this gentleman went down to harbour and saw captive who attracted his attention because he was very fair complexioned and had blue eyes perhaps are creighton. Tried to talk to him and was answered in an unintelligible gibberish..
Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"niniveh" Discussed on Modern Anabaptist: The Conversations that Shape Us
"Because i knew you're a gracious and loving god. Forgive these people. And i didn't want you to forgive them interesting. And so then. He sits on a tree that god puts them up and he's waiting for judgment to happen and judgment doesn't happen in the tree dies and withers and there's this long conversation with god about. Why did you let this happen. And basically saying hey you misunderstood who i am and we never find out whether jona kind of goes through that process deconstruction and takes it in an and moves towards your relationship or new understanding of god or whether he just stays desert there under weather tree. I mean we're just left with that. God has the last word but we never find out what jonas last word is And it's it's a story. I think that's being told in the bible to the people of israel because they're being asked to reconsider who they think goddess and they want to be the one that punishes all the other nations. But god wants to be the god that is drawn that shows off israel so that all the other nations are drawn to him. So it's it's a book about deconstructing your faith in my opinion for forty israelites and for us and not only that. But as you're saying this story. I i i thought about the. Oh what said he does he go to none of niniveh. The innovates would have been also heard this information and then they would have gone through their own deconstruction their own reconstruction of faith. Right what it means right right and they don't even get the core message right. They don't get the core message of saying. Hey i come from the god of the israelites. Judgement is coming. You should repent believing this god and do and maybe judgment will pass literally what what what jones says is hate. Judgement is coming walks. Run out of the city to the other saying that basically and then walks away and still just that simple message. Changes changes that city..
National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"niniveh" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Cheeses. I'm asking that you're cross. Jesus could be lifted up over washington. Dc that men and women could be released from their bondage. They're prejudiced their anger. Their bitterness their ambition their selfishness the wickedness lord washington. Dc is certainly niniveh in our modern day and then of a repentant and you did not bring the final judgment on them for many many years a masking lord the final judgment not be brought on washington d. c. i'm asking instead that it would turn repentance and humility and seek your face. I'm asking that prejudice would be put away that racial strife would be put away the christians of all nationalities asian black cook asian hispanic lord. Masking all peoples could come together in the name of jesus for their we are one. We're not divided. The world is trying to divide us. The powers of the american government are trying to divide us. lord we will not be divided. We are one people in you. Jesus the masking lord for your mercy for washington. Dc the metro area that you would humble our hearts before you you would raise up preaching and teaching in the city of righteousness of holiness a brotherhood of love. Come lord jesus. I pray in your holy name amen will. We're out of time for today. You're welcome to write to me. I'd love to hear from you. You can write to me at the national prayer chapel post office box. Twenty three forty six woodbridge virginia. Two two one nine five you can also go to our.
National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"niniveh" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Well the scriptures. Tell us in verse seventeen. Cain lay with his wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to inuk. Cain was then building a city. So kane is the first businessman found in scripture. He can't produce that stables fruit. He's not going to be taking care of livestock. Because that was able job. Was he going to do already. he's an adult. Many people have been born there already people's beginning to form in communities. So what does he do. He builds a sit. He says. come on everybody. Let's leave the country. Let's come together in the city and let's have a place where we can live in party. So that's what happened and evil immediately began to crop up in that city. Lameck did not be could not be happy with one wife. He married the to do so married. Two wives and he and a very vengeful angry bitter spirit as a descendant of of came now wickedness grew on the earth the watchers. The evil ones came down and they took wife's for themselves of the human people there were giants. Chaos reigned on the earth. We're told in the story of noah that lens thoughts were only evil. Only violent. and we're told that noah was the only family that was not corrupt. I believe that means he was the only family who had not had his. Dna played with by the devil by the nfl him. Now we have the lord. God of heaven saying i'm going to destroy them. All and he sends a flood. Noah builds arc the first type of jesus christ he is the arc they also had an arc in the wilderness with the commands of god in arcs by definition have no means of steerage or power to move god hill noah's ark in his hands. He was the one who steered it. He's the one who took it to safety. So then we have the table of nations in genesis the tenth chapter we have the sons of ham kush is the first of the sons and he gave birth with his wife to a man by the name of nimrod who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. And if you look in extra biblical sources you find. Nimrod was a very famous person and was the founder of a great deal of wickedness. In the earth. And occult awesome. We would say today that nimrod was a a saucer. A very powerful sorcerer now he began to build centers cities. He was a city builder in the first place he build. A kingdom was called babylon. It was in a plane in what we know today as iraq he was also the one who built niniveh one of the oldest cities constantly inhabited in all of history. Now the whole world had one language that common speech and his men moved eastward after the flood had taken place and they were looking new lands. They were led by nimrod in nimrod founded the city of babbling. Now it was probably not called babbling then. We don't know what it was called. But in chapter eleven genesis. The word comes come. Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly and they used brick instead of stone and tar for the mortar and they said come let us build ourselves a city with a tower reaches to the heavens so that we can make a name for ourselves not be scattered over the face of the whole earth. They were told to be scattered. They were told not to build these great centers. But what were they doing. They were literally building a tower to reach into the heavens now. They knew they could not reach the heavens and some people have said they were building a tower so that if there was another flood they could escape it no. I don't think so. These were cultus these were demonic controlled. People they were in total rebellion against noah and the ways of god nimrod was an utterly evil man. I believe that the tower that they were building was what is called today a stargate. They were trying to enter into the heavens into a place where they could have access to the place they'd been cast out of and demons. Were working with them now. The lord look down to see the city the tower the men were building and the lord said if as one people speaking the same language. They've begun to do this. The nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come let us go down and confused their language so that they will not understand each other. I hope you do not have.
Greg Laurie Podcast
"niniveh" Discussed on Greg Laurie Podcast
"God of the new testament not the god of the old testament because the gun of the old testament is rifle in angry but the god of the new testament is loving and gracious clearly. You have not read the bible. Because yes we see. A god of holiness we see a god of righteousness. But a god of love. And a god of mercy in both the old and the new testament. Let's go back to the old testament. As an example we remember that the plagues came upon egypt and upon pharaoh. The lord didn't wanna do that. Farrell was warned over and over by moses to let god's people go and he refused in his heart got harder but he had opportunity after opportunity to repent and it was really on him he had no one ultimately to blame but himself go to the story of noah. The book of genesis will god sent the judgment through the flood. There was plenty of time for people to turn to god and to repent before one drop of rain fell again. The lord took no pleasure in that another classic example of god be merciful and the old testament and this is a story of niniveh member. This was a city renowned for his wickedness. Run by the assyrian that work very cruel in the way that they treated their enemies just unbelievable atrocities and god warn them. That judge was coming but the lord raised up a prophet named jona. Who obviously didn't wanna go at first. But he eventually got there and he gave them the methods forty days. And then of a will be overthrown. But don't if there was a warning. I and what happens that people repent and god does not send judgment. There are positive aspects of the judgment of god. Believe it or not number. One god's judgment frightens us. And that's not a bad thing it's supposed to judge god's judgment scares the hell out of us and that's good. They have the hell scared out of you. It'll make you think twice before you do that. Thing and as you watch god's judgment of the repercussions come into a person's life when they've done the wrong thing it's a warning to you also do the wrong thing number to god's judgment sobers us it forces us to reassess the way we've been living our lives and sometimes causes us to change our priorities it. C s lewis. Who said pain is god's megaphone to reach a depth world somma said before i was afflicted i win astray but now i have kept your words..
The Collected Podcast
"niniveh" Discussed on The Collected Podcast
"I've offered repentant for people to turn to me and eventually there's action that was taken so the story line like you know it's not just those things and a story for everything you know the movie mary poppins right of course like now no. Mary poppins the story of the good man. You know the mythical nanny flies him to the family and a good. She's helping the family and then she leaves at the end. Someone you can type in google scary. Mary and a youtube video will come up. And it's worth watching because it shows the point of this. I've seen this seared so it's called scary. Mary and then you will see clips of the movie. Someone had the genius idea and they took little clips of mary poppins from the movie itself. They piece them together and put a little kind of a slower. Mary poppins soundtrack song behind it. And then you'll see. Mary like staring at the kids in the bedroom. When they're cleaning up the bedroom scene in the boy gets brought into the closet and the doors are shut or someone goes up the chimney and she makes like a mean face. And then you'll see all these other nannies when they're replying before she came like elliott blown away by the wind and they put all these things together and then the end you see the two children running and then they go scary. Mary hydra children right. Now gosh if you didn't know mary poppins. This is the important point. If you didn't know mary poppins. You would watch that trailer and of course it's a horror story you know and right but it is not a her story but if you only piecing a few things out without looking at the whole it's to be a horror story and that's what's going on with the bible and violence the cross violent you know. There's yeah violence was used and that is the hardest thing to describe it. If a baby ever died in a as a result of battle they are with the lord right now right now. All of their parents had time to repent. They were warned and again as pharaoh had time to repent like he was begged by out like turn. Let the people go. Turn turn so and the god is a compassion passionate slow to anger forgiving god and salute and there was violence for sure. And i'm not you don't wash it away and it's hard to grasp but that's where you know the hull god you then trust Such a somewhat against a very deep complicated thing in the bible you know. It's interesting to me. Dan and i wanna go and see. How many of these promises. I found last year in twenty twenty i do. I use a word of the year as like a lens through which to view life in with teaching me in a year and my word was promised last year. And i noticed as i studied that word and i studied the word promise in the word a lot of times. God's promises are phrased if you dot dot dot. I will dot dot dot. And it's almost always an invitation to turn from sin and enjoy the fullness of life in him and so i'm so interested to go back now and maybe you already know In connect those promises to these places of terrible violence and how many of them you know the people could have prevented ruin by turning from sin and in taking god on the invitation to enjoy life as he designed it in the garden Obviously the story of the world but Just for my own interest i. I'm going to have to go and see where those things connect. Yes well the story of niniveh shona. They were a wicked city when you look at historically what was going on they would kill..
Christ United Methodist Church - Plano, TX
"niniveh" Discussed on Christ United Methodist Church - Plano, TX
"Are changed. This reminds me of the sailors from the first part of joe last week. They were of different cultures. They were of different beliefs and still they felt they understood the magnificence of god working. The sailors were the ones who took time to pray and cry out to jones. God even when joe wouldn't even when jonah was running here the city of niniveh. Here's jonah kind of doing the bare minimum of sharing this message from god and they immediately repair hint. This is part of the reason. I find the book of jonah and even its inclusion in the old testament to be so interesting. Jona jones had the hebrew. The profit jona the guy who guide decides to talk to. He's the one who only engages with god when he's trapped in the belly of fish he is the one who doesn't seem to have compassion for the other people on the ship or for the people of niniveh we don't see jona have a heart for others. We don't really even see. Joan have a heart for god yet. Those people those outside of the day or the ones in this story who are consistently softening their hearts and making space for god to work in their lives the next few verses of chapter three demonstrate this. let's read verses six through nine. When word of it reached the king of niniveh. He got up from his throne stripped himself of his robe covered himself with morning clothes and sat in ashes then he announced in all of niniveh by decree of the king and his officials neither human nor animal cat old nor flock will taste anything no grazing and no drinking water. Let humans and animals alike put on morning clothes and let them call upon god forcefully and let all person stop there evil behavior in the violence. That's under their control. And then the king thought to himself. Who knows god may see this intern from his rat so that we might not perish. All of niniveh from the mightiest person the king to even all the animals they decide to have a fast they repent they sit in morning in ashes. They give up their luxurious lifestyles and their lifestyles of violence. Just in the hopes that god might forgive them. This is the power of god that we see throughout the book of jonah. God still works even win. Jones thinks he knows best jonet thinks it's best to run away from god. Then jones thinks it's best to give a short message to only part of the city of niniveh and then leave. Joan is driven by this type of selfishness and he can't seem to find compassion for other people. I think. I hate on jona so much because i see myself in jones. Maybe some of you can relate to this to there are times where it seems easier to run away then to face hard things had on. It's also sometimes really difficult for me personally to put myself in someone else's shoes to find true compassion for people. I'm really quick to judge instill. Jonas story doesn't end here with an innovative repentance. Get a whole fourth chapter of the book of jonah. Hear these words from jona. Three ten through four three. God saw what they were doing. So i'd takes notice of the innovates repenting that they had ceased their evil behavior so god stopped planning to destroy them. And god didn't do it. But joanna thought this was utterly wrong and jona became angry. Jonah pray to the lord come on lord was wasn't this precisely my point when i was back in my own land. This is why. I fled to tarshish earlier. I know that you are merciful and compassionate guide very patient full of faithful love and willing not to destroy at this point. Lord you may as well take my life from me because it would be better for me to die than to live jonet engages in another conversation with god. This is the second time in the entire book we see jonas speak to god and here is where we finally get. The big reveal here is where jonas tells us why he didn't want to go to niniveh in the first place in joan doesn't name fear or laziness or any other things we might have thought of instead. Jonas says the reason he didn't want to go to niniveh is because he knew god was compassionate. And that god might forgive the people. Jonah on the other hand believes the innovates should be punished that they should be overthrown and he's angered that god is merciful to them. Jona believes that he knows. God he knows god's nature and that it would be better to run away from niniveh than to go and spread the message because he knows god's to compassionate god's to compassionate to pass judgment on these people have a few thoughts about this first off the throughout the old testament believe it or not guide does destroy entire nations. So i'm not really sure why jonas so convinced that god would never destroy the ninna bites. It's not as farfetched as it seems. Also god has just forgiven jona for running away. God has saved jones life after being thrown off a boat into the sea yet. Here jono wants god to withhold forgiveness even though he himself as you just received forgiveness from god. It's probably not the first time. God's forgiven jona either.
Christ United Methodist Church - Plano, TX
"niniveh" Discussed on Christ United Methodist Church - Plano, TX
"Thank you to meredith and the team. That was an amazing little two part series. Superfund a to so. We are so thankful for their hard work on that i also neglected to mention earlier. If you're worshiping with us online we encourage you to get elements so that you may partake in holy communion with us so some bread some juice just so you have those as we. Enter into a time communion a little later in the service. I give you permission to leave during the sermon together. Those maybe just turn the volume up before we begin this morning. We'll you pray with me. God made the words of my mouth and the meditations of all of our hearts gathered. Be pleasing to you. Our rock and our redeemer aman today. We are finishing up our sermon series on the book of jona. If you missed the first part of jona last week no worries. You can rewatch the sermon if you're super into it. That sermon is found on facebook on her youtube page. You can also listen to the center. Our podcast anywhere. You can listen to podcast and just for a quick summary. So we're all on the same page this morning. We talked last week about what it looks like when we run away in our own lives and how even when we run away. God can still work in our mistakes. Joanna straight up runs in the opposite direction of where god called him to go. And joanna doesn't even try to talk to god about his problems with the call he just immediately bales and as jona ran. Jonas found himself as the outsider. He was with people on a boat who had different beliefs than him and they were headed to a city full of more people who had different beliefs then the storm came while joan and the sailors are on the boat and jonas said that it was totally his fault in the sailor ship. Throw him overboard and the sailors didn't want to do that because they felt weird about throwing someone off a boat which agreed that would be a weird thing to do but they didn't have another option so they ended up throwing jona over it but these men had such a powerful experience of jonas. God they solve the power of god that they actually left their gods and began worshiping jonas guide which is amazing and it speaks to this fact that god can work in our lives even when we make mistakes then of course when jonas thrown over god since this giant fish to swallow jona like it happens and for the first time and the entire book of jonah in the second chapter we hear jona pray to god for the first time jones has a conversation with god we end with an. I am quoting scripture here. Joanna is being vomited vomited onto dry. Land okay cool. I gave last week's sermon in like five minutes. You're all welcome for that. Sorry about last week said that today we are going to continue with jonas saga and you may be sitting there wondering wait a minute. Didn't you just give us jonasson. Tire story right. Joan get swallowed by fish. Then joanna decides that he will follow god's call on his life and he goes to about right and of story but actually there's a lot more to jonas story than just that part. I'm telling you y'all are children's story. Bibles they really mislead us in this. Maybe part of the problem is with us. Maybe we're really interested in a giant fish swallowing a man and we don't always hear the rest of jonas story but i argue. Jonas story is just getting started as we start three of joanna this morning in just the very first verse we see clear symmetry from the very first verse in the entire book of jonah. I'll show you what i mean. Let's get john three verse. One so has just been vomited onto dry land. How many times can i say vomit. The sermon keep count. Here's what scripture says. The lord's word came to joanna. Second time get up and go to niniveh that great city in declare against it the proclamation that i am commanding you. It's the same or a pretty similar. Call that god gives jona joan one one. We have a side by side. Journal one one. The lord's word came to joe. Nagbe get up go to ninna the great city cry out against it so once again jonah gets a call to go to niniveh and this time instead of fleeing joanna got up and went to niniveh. According to the lord's word the same message in a different response this is definitely a step in the right direction for our profit for jona. He's going to finally follow through with his calling from god and then jona does a typical jona type of thing. We read just now. That is a big place right. Three days walk across but joan only gives his message to the ninna bites on his first day in the city. Here's what verse four says. Jonas started into the city walking one day and he cried out just forty days more and then we'll be overthrown. That's it in seen. Joanna does what he's asked of. He tells the people that god is taken notice of their evilness. Well sword of jonas says i think eight words he says in forty days your city. Oh be overthrown. Kind of vague about what's going to happen. He doesn't really even tell them that. It's god who's going to overthrow the city. My interpretation of this passage of scripture is that joanna decides to do the bare minimum of his calling. Yeah he still gives this message that he's been charged to give but he doesn't seem to be doing in particularly loving way or even in a very informative way jonas kind of basic with what he shares and. Maybe jonas scared to tell them more details. Maybe joan doesn't really see a point in giving them more information if they're just going to be overthrown anyway we don't really know what's going on in jonas head but even though i would say jona does the bare minimum here joan. It gets huge results with his message. Let's continue on with the fifth verse and the people have believed to guide. They proclaimed a fast and put on morning clothes from the greatest of them to the least significant jonas gibbs eight words and the people hints the people's hearts.
Christ United Methodist Church - Plano, TX
"niniveh" Discussed on Christ United Methodist Church - Plano, TX
"Part god gives it very clear instruction to go to niniveh. Tell the people to turn to repent very again. It's a very simple request. It's this simple call for joanna but we find that joan behaves like my sixteen month. Old son jude. When i asked him to bring me something that he shouldn't have he runs in the opposite direction. I want my son jude. does it. it's funny it's cute. He's thinks it's a game his giggling and he's still mastering walking so he looks really awkward running away but when he does it. It's not so cute and it certainly not funny at this point and he paid money we read that he pays a fair to get out of town. It probably was a pretty big one to some scholars. Think that he might have been waiting for just to come and then maybe he said hey if i pay off when you turn right back around and go out to sea again. I've got to get out of here. Jonas pretty committed from running away from this call from god. Let keep reading i four. But the lord hurled a great wind upon the sea in such a mighty storm came upon the that the ship threaten to break up the marriage were afraid in each cried to his. God they through the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them jona. Meanwhile had gone down into the hold of this ship had lane down and was fast asleep. The captain came and said to him. What are you doing sound asleep. Get up call on your. Perhaps the god will spare a thought said that we do not perish key believed that joni gets on the boat. He goes down to the vessel now again. I don't have a lot of boat experience. I'm still saving up for that. Really big yacht put basically. He goes down to the quietest the safe the safest most secure spot of the ship again..
Living God's Way
"niniveh" Discussed on Living God's Way
"These people are punished as a result. Verse thirty one therefore and just watching a notice this. I think it's very important. is they. Show eat the fruit of their way and they shall have their fill of their own devices. This is one of the many places in scripture revealing one of the strongest ways. People are judged. Let me say this very clearly. You're looking at one of the verses in scripture there reveals one of the strongest ways people are judged got simply turns them over to their sin. He abandoned them to their sin. He takes his hands off of them and lau allows them to have their fill of their own devices or to eat the fruit of their own way and this brings us to the next part of less than three. If people reject wisdom part three she turns them over to their sin. What's the very worst thing. God can do to someone we're gonna say. Send them to hell but in this life. That's what that's the very worst thing that can happen to a person but that happens in the next life. What is the very worst thing that can happen to someone in this life. You're looking at it. God abandons them to their sin and the consequences of it it's reprobation they have become reprobates and god is no longer wisdom or the holy spirit is no longer drying them working on them. They have been turned over to their sending the consequences of notice. The language that's used eat. The fruit of their way have their fill when god really wants to punish centers because they rejected wisdom for so long he lets them reap what they've sewn or let's them eat what they want. That is their punishment. Consider this verse. The southern kingdom of judah during jeremiah's day spiritually dark time heading into the babylonian exile and the destruction of the temple because of how the people are behaving. And we're not talking about pagans. Here we're not talking about joan niniveh. We're not talking about oba. Diarrhea going to the eat and sights. We're talking about jeremiah. Speaking to the jews. And listen to what god said to them. I think this is a very profound verse. Jeremiah to nineteen year evil will chastise you and your apostasy will reprove you one more time. You're evil is going to chastise you're disciplined you and your apostasy turning from me is going to repeat reprove you rebuke you. God is saying. I don't even have to discipline. You don't even have to do anything to you. The consequences of your sin are going to be punishment enough. You can see people send they can suffer terribly and you could say man. God is hand is very heavy on them. He's really giving it to them. Maybe or maybe he just let him have what they wanted. Maybe they're not suffering anything more than what they craved and the consequences of it. There is no. How do you know the gods fingerprints are on that situation. They're the ones who destroyed their lives. And god had just withheld his grace or restraint from the behavior that they were engaging in think about the accounts in scripture of god punishing people by giving them what they wanted..
Pray the Word with David Platt
Judgment is Coming (Zephaniah 1:18)
"Jeff. Anaya chapter one verse eighteen neither silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the lord in the fire of his jealousy all the earth shall be consumed for full and sudden in he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth hits. It's hard to imagine a more sobering. Humbling verse then zephenia. One eighteen at the end of chapter. Where verse after verse after verse talking about the day of the lord now in wherever we see the day of the lord in scripture and specifically here in the old testament and old testament prophets. It's directly talking about the day of god's judgment that's coming upon his people for their sin. We've seen this in different ways through different prophets With the northern kingdom of israel this is relating to the southern kingdom of judah. God warning his people that because of their sin that he will bring his judgement upon them and we see these warnings for other nations. Says what we see in whom for example talking about god's judgment on the people of niniveh and then in a broader way. Because we see this all the way through the bible all the way to the end in revelation when we see the day of the lord as a picture of his ultimate judgment in the earth that all of these displays of his judgment at different times in history will one day culminate in the ultimate day of the lord win. All of these things will happen in so now listen to these words a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth. There's coming a day when god will fully and finally judge the earth in every inhabitant in it all the inhabitants of the earth and on that day silver or gold will not be able to deliver. Anyone like money can't save prosperity in this world. Can't save nothing in this world will be able to save on the day of the wrath of the lord and we know this we who are hearing this and the bible we. You know god's word we know this god has told us this is coming which is motivation then right for evangelism for proclamation of good news to people around us. Just think about people in your life and my life who we know who don't know this who don't realize that there's coming a day of judgment when they will stand before god and apart from will be cast into attornal punishment will experience them and there's so much imagery here in chapter one that describes god's wrath god's judgment we know this is coming so god help us to proclaim the gospel with urgency today. An elvis not to be silent with the gospel got help us not to be distracted by so many other things got. I confess my own life and my leadership is a pastor. I get so distracted by so many other things then people souls for all of eternity and the reality of your coming judgment and need for your mercy in the gospel and to proclaim that like loudly and clearly and compassionately on ashamed league. God help me to proclaim this. Not just i mean yes. There's a pastor. Preach forgot every day for each one of us to proclaim your mercy your grace in light of your coming judgment every single day. God may this clear in her mouth and this be clear in our interactions with people around us chris overflow into spread of your goslin places where it's never ever been heard where there's no hardly any christians thing about the sirene can arabs in libya. Almost a million and a half of them hardly any of them have knowledge of the gospel and even looking at earlier today the instability in libya god we pray for the spread of the gospel among the sirene can arabs of libya. Got him every people group in the world. They're not ready for the day when you return. Jesus they're not already not trusted. You not heard the good news of your grace in the gospel. So god we pray that would change that you'd cause your church to take the cost to them into every people group in the world and the people right around scott. Help us to live in light of this coming day. I was to be holy to grow in holiness. First and second. Peter and view of your coming to live with holiness and to live with urgency to proclaim the gospel gallery. We pray that kind of whole innocent. That kind of urgency would mark our lives today.
Pray the Word with David Platt
The Enemy Has Been Defeated (Nahum 1:15)
"Whom chapter one verse fifteen behold upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news who publishes piece exclamation point should have read that with more zeal with more enthusiasm. Because that's really what this verse is all about so the context to your home is. Here's a prophet who is proclaiming. God's judgment god's coming wrath specifically on the people of niniveh which was the capital of syria and the assyrian said waged war and wreaked havoc on god's people specifically the northern kingdom of israel. And keep in mind. This is the same city where jonah had gone to preach about god's coming judgment and the people of none of a had repented had turned from their san. We actually prayed through john chapter three. How god relented of the disaster. He had said he would bring upon none of a because of their repentance but here and they whom the messages clear. God's judgement is coming and the people of none of a have not repented are not repenting and god is making clear that they will experience they will not escape his judgment and specifically god's judgment for the way that none of is the assyrians had ravaged his people. And so in this sense when you get to nayhum. Chapter one verse. Fifteen the prophet whom says behold upon the mountains. The feet of him who brings good news. Who publishes piece so nana's downfall god's judgment upon a syria was good news for the people whom the assyrians were talking. This was good news. For god's people now as we think about how this first leads us to pray as wanna say it one more time and now the you know the context here these words behold upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news who publishes piece basically saying like picture somebody running over the mountains saying war against you is over. Your enemies will not be attacking you anymore. Peace will reign in the land. Like when you see somebody running and proclaiming that. That's good news. That's cause for celebration with an exclamation point at the end of it. So when we think about that picture and then just take it to a whole 'nother level i. We are engaged in spiritual battle in every single one of our lives. There's an adversary in this world. Who is warring against your soul my soul our hearts our minds today trying to pull us away from god. There's an adversary in this world. John chapter ten makes clear. His aim is to kill steal and destroy. And what is the gospel but good news. That adversary has been conquered. The jesus has come and live a life of perfect obedience to god. Never once giving into temptation from the adversary he has conquered sin then he died on a cross to pay the price for sin and when it looked like all was lost and he had been defeated three days later he rose from the grave in victory over sin and victory over satan and victory over death itself this is the gospel and behold upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news publishes pieces says that peace with god is possible through faith in jesus and victory over san enemy has been defeated. Salvation is a reality for all who trust in the victor for all who trust in jesus. So let's celebrate this gospel with an exclamation point in our minds and hearts today and let's proclaim this gospel. Let's go to the mountains to use language from name chapter one verse fifteen. Let's go to people right around us and people around the world and let's proclaim good news. Let's publish piece.
Pray the Word with David Platt
Zealous and Compassionate Evangelism (Jonah 4:10-11)
"Jona chapter four versus ten eleven. And the lord said you pity the plant for which you did not labor nor did you make it grow which came into being a night and perished in a night and should not i pity niniveh that great city in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also much cattle and thus ends the book of jona with the profit exceedingly displeased. An angry that god had brought salvation to niniveh. The god had saved benefit from the wrath. They deserved and the prophet. Jonah is upset goes out of the city. Sits down there under the shade and god appoints this plant to come up over jona to save him from discomfort in the sun and jonah was exceedingly. Glad about the plant. But then when god appointed a worm to attack the plants withered. Joan was so upset. And god's says in verses we just read you pity the plant a plant. Should i not pity. Niniveh people hundreds of thousands of people who have created a my image whom i love and i desire to save like. There's so much temptation at this point just to be very critical of jona and obviously jonah was in the wrong here but let's look at our own lives i. How often are you an. I consumed with passionate about things in this world that ultimately don't matter i we value plants and possessions and sports and entertainment and petty comforts in trivial concerns. And we can get so worked up over these things so passionate about these things even embroiled in these things that we miss individuals right around us people that we interact with on a daily basis. Who are on a road that leads to an eternal hell. Oh god we pray. Help us to realize to remember what matters most god reprieve. You'd forgive us for our focus on so many different comforts and cares and concerns in this world that we are not more passionate about seoul's being saved not just experience your life and your love in this world but in all of eternity god help us depite what you pity to have compassion like your compassion to love like you love god. We pray. You'd help us too long for what you long for you. Desire all people to know your grace your salvation. We think about seven plus billion people in the world all created in your image your likeness created to know you and created to enjoy you. Who turned from you all seven. Plus billion of us have turned from you and you love them so loved the world that you gave your one and only son that whoever among the seven billion believes in jesus will not perish paternal live gunnery. Praise you for your love for us. We praise you for somebody caring enough about us to share the gospel with us. We praise you for the eternal life we have in you. We praise you for your pity and your compassion and your love for us. So god reprinted helpless his show that for other people around us cowdery pray that ours eel to lead people to to faith in jesus to internal life and you would far outweigh our zeal for anything else. In this world. God that we would be emotional about passionate about not plans and possessions and sports and entertainment and petty comforts and trivial concerns but that we would be passionate about people and their souls for all of eternity. God we we pray that you would keep us from living like we see joan in this last chapter. God help us to be a clear reflection of your love for the people around us people who are desperately in need of your grace. We pray that you would help us to be more concerned about their salvation. Then we are about new business ventures new gadgets nicer things and sports teams and whatever else this world offers us help us we pray god in jesus name
Your Brain on Facts
How Does Your Garden Grow, with Nooks and Crannies
"Wants neglected plot on their recently inherited estate. The Duchess of Northumberland undertook to make special garden inspired by a trip to the MEDICI estates in Italy. The Duchess wanted to make a garden that was both beautiful and educational. The carefully tended plot features things like a trope. Abell Donna to tour common moral monkshood white. Hello Bore Blue Ensign, flowers and narcissus. It's called the annick poison garden. Because like the sign at the front gate, says do not touch any of these plants. These plants can kill you. My Name's Moxy and this is your brain on facts. We hardly need to say that mankind has been growing food for a longtime. The earliest domesticated plants and horticulture that we have evidence of thus far date to nine thousand B C e in the teen corridor the that runs from the Dead Sea to the Damascus basin. The people there planted grains legumes using sticks to dig in the dirt. The first written reference to gardening dates back soumare in lower Mesopotamia. King Gilgamesh mentioned that his city or ACC was one third gardens. Though. He probably meant orchards as much as anything else. From Egypt. We have paintings and models gardeners at work, and you can still see the remains of the Temple Gardens at Karnak. Or you can head over to Iran to see the layout and information channels of garden that was created twenty five hundred years ago. For the oldest garden we can find in Europe had over to Greece. Were Gardens both practical and ornamental were being put in by seven thousand vce two thousand years before the Egyptians. The creation of a new science botany, the study of plants meant that gardens became a place of learning even in the ancient world gardens could be an aesthetic choice as well as a practical one. Evidence suggests that the idea originated in Persia with Darius the great and his Paradise Garden beginning a tradition of walled in garden spaces. Lavish Villa Gardens in the Roman Empire Spread East China and Japan where Aristocratic Gardens featured miniaturized and simulated landscapes, like rock, gardens and waterfalls. Natural symbolized power and religious thought. Zen Gardens appeared and emphasized the concept of using the garden for reflection to increase. Want Wisdom. The most famous garden in the ancient world is undoubtedly the hanging gardens of Babylon. According to Legend in the sixth century BC. King Nebuchadnezzar a name that is never not fun to say. Bill to the gardens for his wife, a modest to ensure that she didn't become homesick for her birthplace of Medina near the Caspian Sea. But we don't get details of the garden from Nebuchadnezzar himself. Which is odd considering that he recorded his many other accomplishments in cuneiform, but there's no mention of the gardens. Several, ancient Roman and Greek writers wrote about the garden though. Some scholars argue that the gardens were actually built by an Assyrian Queen or the King of Niniveh. We don't know for sure because despite the gardens being one of the seven wonders of the world. We can't find it to study it. It's believed to have been destroyed by an earthquake in the first century C E. So why were they called? The hanging gardens were the garden beds suspended. was everything planted in hanging baskets? Bonus fact, the largest hanging basket planter in the world is on the side of the hotel. Indigo in the Paddington Section of London. It measures ten by twenty feet or three by six meters and weighs upwards of half a tonne. Now the hanging gardens didn't really hang so much as they over Hong or draped and their defense, the draping garden doesn't sound nearly as appealing. Accepting the premise that some royal or another wanted to build a royalty grand garden in the desert, it was going to take careful planning and serious engineering to pull that off. The structure was a cigarette or a stepped pyramid with walls between twenty and seventy five feet high, depending on which ancient account you're reading. So picture a walled city in the desert. Rising in the center of it alongside the Palace