Two forces that propel militaristic world dominion idea

"Nahum is a book of judgment and chapter 3 is sort of like walking it out the door. This is the final judgment of God against Nineveh, which is the stronghold of the Antichrist and the book's looking to the time in the last days, especially at the time of the Second Advent.

Verse 1: [1] Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

"He's describing a battle going on here. He's talking about the violence that makes the city of Nineveh the capital of bloodshed," explains Richard Jordan.

"In verses 2-3 He literally describes the carnage of the battlefield: [2] The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

[3] The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

"This is a description of a live, contemporary military engagement. It's not talking about some cemetery; this is the battle going on right then and the city's just being wiped out.

"Here's what's behind the military carnage: [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.

"That's a description of the power, the spiritual activity that lies behind that militaristic world dominion domination kind of conquest that Nineveh represents. The Antichrist has sought to be the ruler of the world.

"There are two forces that propel that militaristic world dominion idea and these two forces don't just compel the Antichrist; he's harnessing what's there in life all along.

"If you went around today and tried to explain what it is that causes nations to rise against nations and causes the militaristic dominion over nations, there's two reasons . . .

"In verse 1, he's talking about just that lust for wealth: 'You've got something I want; I'm going to come and rob you and I'm willing to shed blood to get it.'

"In 3:16, talking again about Nineveh as it's being destroyed, [16] Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

"That's like that thing in Ezekiel 28 about Satan's merchandise and how he's out selling his ideas.

"They're pillaging, robbing and it's that greed; that lust for wealth and gaining things that other people have. That's why Jesus warned His apostles, 'Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.'

"The second thing is down in Nahum 3:4 and it's more sinister. You understand the greed issue, the human nature kind of thing, but Satan uses that human nature to accomplish his purposes

"That verse is not talking about a house of ill-repute; that's talking about that thing in Revelation 17:

[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

[6] And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

"It's talking about that satanic-inspired religious dominion and you remember that city in Revelation is the city that rules over the kings of the earth and it's made the kings of the earth drunk with the wine of her fornication.

"She's literally intoxicated them and put a spirit within them that causes them to fall in line with the Adversary's goal of making the Antichrist the head ruler of the nations, and no matter what kind of bloodshed it takes to do it, they'll do it.

"In Nahum 2, back in verse 11, the thing about those three lions there: [11] Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

"I've tried to say to you Egypt, Babylon and Assyria are associated together and the issue about the Antichrist being an Assyrian, the terminology goes all the way back to Genesis 11 and the idolatry with Nimrod. That's that spiritual power.

"The Egyptian, the Pharoah in Isaiah 14, Babylon is called Assyria. In Isaiah 52, Pharoah is said to be the Assyrian running them. So, there's a spiritual power behind the political manifestation.

"You'll see that city in Isaiah 47: [1] Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

[2] Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
[3] Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

"You have the virgin daughter of Babylon, which would be Revelation 17. Here's the virgin. In that religion when you worship the queen of heaven she's the virgin, the Madonna. This city, in verse 5: [5] Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

"So she's 'Our Lady,' she's the queen of heaven, she's the virgin. All of those terms have to do with the religious system called Baal worship."

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