Nahum the Nationalist – Chapter 1

Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The scroll of the vision of Nachum the Elkoshite.  2 El is jealous, and vuvh revenges; vuvh revenges, and is furious; vuvh will take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies. 3 vuvh is slow to anger, and great in power, but will not acquit the wicked: vuvh has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet. Historically, Nineveh was supposed an impregnable fortress, guarded by a system of moats, canals and massive walls.  Sinsharishkun immolated himself as Isaiah records:   Isa 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of יהוה, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.   Ps 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Prov 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; And by the fear of יהוה  men depart from evil. Because sin is purged by “mercy and truth” we find 10 profound truths that affect our faith-walk in daily reality:  Mercy without justice is not truth.  Grace without Law is not truth.   Mercy without Truth is why a grace alone NT message is not true and unable to set the sinner free from falling again and again into sin.  Mercy without justice is to tell the lie that sin doesn’t matter.  Grace without Torah is to tell the lie that sin doesn’t matter. Only when there is truth as well as mercy can we be cleansed from our sin. Only when there is Torah and Grace working together in the Melchizedek covenant of love can we be cleansed from sin. YHWH’s justice demands that sin be punished.  יהוה’s mercy allows a substitute to take our place, to pay the penalty we deserved.  The Melchizedek reality is a legal transaction that took place where our HP took our sins and gave us His righteousness.  Romans 5:19: by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. V.3…V.8  The conjunction “WaW”, “and”,  “furthermore”, “BUT”.  Nahum uses the double WaW, BUT, BUT:  V.3 “but will not acquit the wicked.” V.8 But with an overrunning flood He will make an utter end of the place of Nineveh, and darkness shall pursue His enemies. The double WaW reveals that part of YHWH’s goodness is the fact that He is enemy to all those who defy His Sovereignty. יהוה is describing quantum physics where matter can go from one spot to another without moving through the intervening space (quantum tunneling). יהוה is showing us that as Bara/Creator He alone can pursue evil until it disappears through ‘quantum tunneling’ into the lifeless realm of chaos, void and nothingness, until it’s totally at an end and YHWH’s goodness alone remains in the space called erets/earth.  In John 6:21 we witness quantum tunneling with Yahusha: “Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.” This means that when Yahusha stepped in the boat all its passengers were miraculously transported to the shore. This would be consistent with the fact that some of the people regarded Yahusha as the return of Elijah. And by Yahusha stepping into the boat it actually influenced the physical process…Selah… By יהוה observing evil it actually influences the physical processes taking place. YHWH observance changes reality. And by Yahusha stepping into the boat it actually influenced the physical process and changed reality!  All this can be explained through good and evil and quantum entanglement. History of the text Slow to anger; the reality of the strong and the weak 2 Pet 3:9 יהוה  is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan withers, and Carmel too, and the flower of Lebanon withers. 5 The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the