"The military is the strength of the state; that's where the state gets its power and you have to do what they say. The guy with the gun's always going to run things and the guy with the gold is going to tell the guy with the gun what to do.
"This city in Nahum 3 ('Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not') is the city that provides the philosophy and the spiritual animation behind the guy with the guns and this is what God's destroying.
"What He's doing in Nineveh is He's going to destroy the whole shooting match, but He's going to really get the things behind it.
Nahum 3: [4] Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
[5] Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.[6] And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
"That's a terrible description if you really read what He says. That's a description of the shame. He says, 'You're going to be like a woman who has all of her clothes torn off and then has piles of manure thrown on her and then set out in a gazingstock (you remember how they used to put people in the stocks in the square and everybody would come out and look at them).
"In other words, 'I'm going to hold you up to open ridicule and the worst shame possible. I'm going to bring you from the high lofty perch you were on right down to the lowest . . . I'm going to lay you bare in front of everybody.'
[7] And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
"No one's going to want to be around them they look so bad. Nobody's going to come and say, 'Oh, it's okay.'
[8] Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
"When it talks about No, come with me to Jeremiah 46. Nineveh's a small place and No was a big place. The point is, 'If they couldn't stand up and I could wipe them out, I don't think you're going to get away.'
Jeremiah 46:25: [25] The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
[26] And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.[27] But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
"So He's going to destroy them all. He's not simply talking about the Babylonian captivity. That would be nation singular. He's talking about the WHOLE of the captivity all the way to the end, which is where you are in the Second Advent.
"God's using the Antichrist and the Gentile nations to chasten Israel, to correct her, to do what Leviticus 26 says: [27] And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
[28] Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins."God uses the Gentile nations in the sense, as the Psalmist in Psalm 76 says, He uses the wrath of men to praise Him: [10] Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
"They don't mean to be serving God. They mean, 'Hey, let's go get Israel,' and God does what He does with Job. He says to Satan, 'You can have him but you can't touch his soul.' "
Nahum 3: [15] There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
[16] Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
[17] Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
"If you go to Revelation 9, that's what those dudes that get out of the bottomless pit look like. So, there's all this satanic stuff floating around in the back of this stuff that are the powers who animate these guys. But they're not going to be able to do them any good. They're all just going to melt away.
[18] Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
[19] There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
"What a way to end. I mean, you're done for, dude. And when you go, all the people you've oppressed are going to clap, 'Woo-hoo, good job, get rid of them! Yippee! We're glad they're gone!'
"They're going to be laying out there looking like the woman who's been stripped and had manure piled all over her and held out to be a gazingstock for everybody. Shame and reproach. Something that no one will come and approach to. That's the kind of destruction . . . Edom from Obadiah and now Nineveh in Nahum, and then Babylon in the next book."
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