Special quaking; kings cry for rocks to fall on them

"What's described in Nahum is how God's going to avenge His people against their enemies at the Second Coming.

Nahum 1: [4] He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

[5] The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
[6] Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
[7] The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

"My goal in looking at some cross references to this passage is to try to give you a little bit of sense of what's going on in some of these prophetic passages," says Richard Jordan.

Revelation 16: [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

"Involved in the wrath of God being poured out is going to be this thing about drying up rivers and one of the rivers He's going to dry up is the Euphrates.

"Somebody asked me about the passage in Exodus when they came out of Egypt and God congealed the sea and caused them to pass over and then have Pharoah fall into that. There's one of these openings in the Red Sea that goes down into the bottomless pit and the same thing is in the river Euphrates.

"Another one, if you go to Psalm 106:5: [6] We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

[7] Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

"That's what He's talking about when He says He's going to rebuke the sea and make it dry. He's going to do in the future what He did in the past.

Verse 8: [8] Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

[9] He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

"He's literally going to dry up some of those waters. When you do that, partly it's going to be so some people can get across, and part of it's going to be because there's some angelic creatures in those places that He's going to be judging.

Psalm 89: [9] Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. [10] Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

"Come over to Matthew 8: [23] And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.

[24] And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
[25] And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
[26] And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
[27] But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

"Jesus was demonstrating that He's the Jehovah who's going to come and deliver Israel and He does exactly what Nahum and Psalm 89 and so forth tell you.

"Every miracle that Jesus Christ performed in His earthly ministry was a miracle to teach and confirm God's Word to Israel. He demonstrates to His 'little flock' in that little ship that He's the one who can rebuke the sea.

"When it says in Nahum 1:5 that 'the mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence,' come over to Haggai.

"All this stuff about earthquakes that Jesus talks about, they're not talking about the little things we have around the world today; the shifting of the tectonic plates and that kind of stuff.

"I love that thing about Matthew 24 and Luke 21 where they talk about earthquakes and people say, 'Oh, must be a sign of the times--Jesus said when you see these things happen . . .'

"They're not the sign of the end but all the sensational types go and try and make them that. This is a very special kind of a quaking at a special time. Haggai 2: [6] For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

[7] And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

"That shaking is going to have an impact that EVERYBODY notices. 

Haggai 2: [21] Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

[22] And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

"When He sets up His kingdom, part of it is He's going to shake all the earth. It's that stuff over in Job 38 about shaking the wicked out of it and those earthquakes take place when Christ comes back.

"Jesus told them about it in Luke 21: [25] And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

[26] Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

"If you shake the earth, one of the things that happens is a tsunami. When He talks about the sea and waves roaring, the earthquake's got everything sloshing back and forth like water in a bathtub.

"Isaiah 24 is a chapter about the coming of the kingdom and the effects it has on the land of Palestine:

[17] Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
[18] And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
[19] The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
[20] The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
[21] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
[22] And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
[23] Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

"In other words, you can hide all you want to but you're not going to get away. This is in connection with Him coming to set up His kingdom and He comes through the heavens, shakes Satan and all his host out of heaven and down to the earth, and then He comes to the earth and shakes the earth! 

"Deuteronomy 32:22 says He sets on fire the earth and it burns down to the lowest hell. In Isaiah 34, the land of Idumea is turned into pitch and that pitch burns right down into hell itself.

"By the way, Nahum is the 34th book in the Bible and Isaiah 34 corresponds with the Book of Nahum. 

Isaiah 34: [8] For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

[9] And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
[10] It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

"Literally that land is set on fire. Right there at Bozrah, right south of the Dead Sea where Sodom and Gomorrah were and that's where one of those passages goes right down into hell.

"The shaft that goes down into hell there is literally going to have the earth excavated out of it (melted out of it) and it's going to be open and they'll be able to see right down in there.

"You see in verse 10 where it says 'it shall not be quenched night nor day'? In chapter 66, Isaiah repeats that, talking about people standing there looking down into hell. Jesus quotes it in Mark 9, about it being a place 'where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.'

"Now, these things aren't taking place all the time. There's a specific time that Nahum is thinking about, talking about and prophesying about.

"In Revelation 6, that sixth seal, the kings of the earth cry for the rocks to fall on them and it says "who shall be able to stand?":

[15] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
[16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
[17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

"Revelation 7 says He's going to seal 144,000, that little flock in the tribulation, and they'll be able to endure. So the answer to who can abide the fire that Isaiah 33 talks about is the Believing Remnant.

"But in Nahum, the issue is on how He's going to focus on Edom, the source of that ancient, perpetual hatred. He's going to focus on the Assyrian, the Book of Nahum, and He's going to focus on the Babylonian, the Chaldeans, and He's going to wipe out all of the satanic policy of evil that has used these nations to destroy Israel and oppose His purpose."

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