“I am against you,” declares the Lord Almighty. Nothing can heal your wound; your injury is fatal. Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty? (Nahum 2:13, 3:19, NIV 1984).
My Musings – “I am against you.” Not exactly something one wants to hear from the Lord God Almighty. In this instance, it was directed against Nineveh. The same Nineveh that escaped an earlier judgment when the prophet Jonah preached, and the city repented. This time around, “nothing [could] heal [their] wound].”
That was nearly two hundred years earlier. But it happens to nations and individuals alike. But certainly, God does not move “against” without first giving warning.
My Advice – “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So, they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” (Matthew 21:33–40, NIV 1984).
Just “another parable?” That and more. A warning. And “what will [God] do to those” who do not heed the warning? “He [will be] against [them].” We must heed the warning. For the “He sent His Son to [us]” to call us to repentance, to “heal [our] wound.” Like He sent Jonah to Nineveh. But sending His Son is the final warning. What will happen to those who reject the Son? “Nothing [else] can heal [their] wound.” Their “injury is fatal.“
The Brew Is A Musing 