Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000701
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00:15 Hello and welcome to "His words are life."
00:17 I am Kelly Mowrer and today 00:19 we are going to read together 00:20 from the Book of Nahum, but first let's pray. 00:24 Dear Heavenly Father, 00:25 thank you for all of your children, 00:29 the men and women throughout history 00:30 who have had a hand in bringing us 00:33 the treasure of this scripture today. 00:35 And now we ask that your Holy Spirit will come, 00:38 as we read these words. 00:40 May they bring new life to our hearts. 00:42 We love you and thank you for loving us, amen. 00:47 I am reading in the Book of Nahum, Chapter 3, 00:51 beginning with verse 10. 00:53 And this is the King James Version. 00:56 "Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity, 01:00 her young children also were dashed in pieces 01:03 at the top of all the streets, 01:05 and they cast lots for her honourable men, 01:08 and all her great men were bound in chains. 01:11 Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt be hid, 01:14 thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. 01:17 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees 01:20 with the firstripe figs, if they be shaken, 01:24 they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. 01:27 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women, 01:30 the gates of thy land shall be set wide open 01:33 unto thine enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars. 01:37 Draw thee waters for the siege, 01:39 fortify thy strong holds, go into clay, 01:42 and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. 01:46 There shall the fire devour thee, 01:48 the sword shall cut thee off, 01:50 it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm, 01:53 make thyself many as the cankerworm, 01:56 make thyself many as the locusts. 01:59 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants 02:01 above the stars of heaven, the cankerworm spoileth, 02:05 and flieth away. 02:07 Thy crowned are as the locusts, 02:09 and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, 02:11 which camp in the hedges in the cold day, 02:14 but when the sun ariseth they flee away, 02:17 and their place is not known where they are. 02:20 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria, 02:24 thy nobles shall dwell in the dust, 02:27 thy people is scattered upon the mountains, 02:29 and no man gathereth them. 02:32 There is no healing of thy bruise, 02:34 thy wound is grievous, all that hear 02:37 the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee, 02:41 for upon whom hath not 02:43 thy wickedness passed continually?" 02:46 Continuing to read in the Book of Habakkuk, Chapter 1. 02:51 This is the King James Version. 02:54 "The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. 02:58 O Lord, how long shall I cry, 03:01 and thou wilt not hear! 03:03 even cry out unto thee of violence, 03:05 and thou wilt not save! 03:08 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, 03:10 and cause me to behold grievance? 03:12 For spoiling and violence are before me, 03:15 and there are that raise up strife and contention. 03:19 Therefore the law is slacked, 03:21 and judgment doth never go forth, 03:24 for the wicked doth compass about the righteous, 03:26 therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. 03:30 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, 03:33 and wonder marvelously, 03:36 for I will work a work in your days, 03:39 which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 03:43 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, 03:45 that bitter and hasty nation, 03:48 which shall march through the breadth of the land, 03:50 to possess the dwelling places that are not their's. 03:54 They are terrible and dreadful, 03:56 their judgment and their dignity 03:58 shall proceed of themselves. 04:01 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, 04:04 and are more fierce than the evening wolves, 04:07 and their horsemen shall spread themselves, 04:09 and their horsemen shall come from far, 04:11 they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. 04:15 They shall come all for violence, 04:18 their faces shall sup up as the east wind, 04:22 and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. 04:26 And they shall scoff at the kings, 04:28 and the princes shall be a scorn unto them, 04:30 they shall deride every strong hold, 04:33 for they shall heap dust, and take it. 04:36 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, 04:40 and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. 04:45 Art thou not from everlasting, 04:48 O Lord my God, mine Holy One? 04:51 We shall not die. 04:53 O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment, 04:56 and, O mighty God, 04:59 thou hast established them for correction. 05:03 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, 05:06 and canst not look on iniquity, 05:09 wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, 05:12 and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth 05:15 the man that is more righteous than he? 05:17 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, 05:20 as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? 05:23 They take up all of them with the angle, 05:26 they catch them in their net, 05:27 and they gather them in their drag, 05:29 therefore they rejoice and are glad 05:31 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, 05:33 and burn incense unto their drag, 05:36 because by them their portion is fat, 05:38 and their meat plenteous. 05:40 Shall they therefore empty their net, 05:43 and not spare continually to slay the nations?" 05:48 Continuing in Habakkuk Chapter 2. 05:52 This is the King James Version. 05:55 "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, 05:59 and will watch to see what he will say unto me, 06:03 and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 06:06 And the Lord answered me, and said, 06:09 Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, 06:13 that he may run that readeth it. 06:15 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, 06:18 but at the end it shall speak, and not lie, 06:22 though it tarry, wait for it, 06:25 because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 06:30 Behold, his soul which is lifted up 06:33 is not upright in him, 06:35 but the just shall live by his faith. 06:40 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, 06:43 he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, 06:47 who enlargeth his desire as hell, 06:49 and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, 06:53 but gathereth unto him all nations, 06:55 and heapeth unto him all people, 06:58 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, 07:01 and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 07:04 Woe to him that increaseth that 07:07 which is not his! how long? 07:10 and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 07:13 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, 07:17 and awake that shall vex thee, 07:19 and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 07:22 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, 07:25 all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee, 07:29 because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, 07:33 of the city, and of all that dwell therein. 07:36 Woe to him that coveteth an evil 07:38 covetousness to his house, 07:41 that he may set his nest on high, 07:42 that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 07:46 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house 07:49 by cutting off many people, 07:51 and hast sinned against thy soul. 07:55 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, 07:57 and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 08:00 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, 08:04 and stablisheth a city by iniquity! 08:07 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that 08:11 the people shall labor in the very fire, 08:13 and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? 08:17 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge 08:20 of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. 08:24 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, 08:27 that puttest thy bottle to him, 08:28 and makest him drunken also, 08:30 that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 08:33 Thou art filled with shame for glory, 08:36 drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered, 08:40 the cup of the Lord's right hand 08:42 shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing 08:46 shall be on thy glory. 08:48 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, 08:51 and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, 08:54 because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, 08:57 of the city, and of all that dwell therein. 09:01 What profiteth the graven image that 09:04 the maker thereof hath graven it, 09:07 the molten image, and a teacher of lies, 09:10 that the maker of his work trusteth therein, 09:12 to make dumb idols? 09:15 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, 09:17 Awake, to the dumb stone, 09:19 Arise, it shall teach! 09:22 Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, 09:24 and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. 09:27 But the Lord is in his holy temple, 09:31 let all the earth keep silence before him." 09:36 Continuing with Habakkuk Chapter3. 09:38 This is the King James Version. 09:42 "A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. 09:48 O Lord, I have heard thy speech, 09:51 and was afraid, O Lord, 09:53 receive thy work in the midst of the years, 09:56 in the midst of the years make known, 09:59 in wrath remember mercy. 10:02 God came from Teman, 10:04 and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. 10:08 His glory covered the heavens, 10:09 and the earth was full of his praise. 10:12 And his brightness was as the light, 10:15 he had horns coming out of his hand, 10:17 and there was the hiding of his power. 10:20 Before him went the pestilence, 10:22 and burning coals went forth at his feet. 10:26 He stood, and measured the earth, he beheld, 10:30 and drove asunder the nations, 10:32 and the everlasting mountains were scattered, 10:35 the perpetual hills did bow, his ways are everlasting. 10:42 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, 10:46 and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 10:50 Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? 10:53 Was thine anger against the rivers? 10:54 Was thy wrath against the sea that 10:56 thou didst ride upon thine horses 10:58 and thy chariots of salvation? 11:01 Thy bow was made quite naked, 11:03 according to the oaths of the tribes, 11:05 even thy word, Selah. 11:07 Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 11:10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled, 11:13 the overflowing of the water passed by, 11:16 the deep uttered his voice, 11:18 and lifted up his hands on high. 11:21 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, 11:25 at the light of thine arrows they went, 11:28 and at the shining of thy glittering spear. 11:31 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, 11:34 thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 11:37 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, 11:41 even for salvation with thine anointed, 11:44 thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, 11:48 by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. 11:52 Thou didst strike through with his staves 11:55 the head of his villages, they came out 11:57 as a whirlwind to scatter me, 11:59 their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 12:04 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, 12:07 through the heap of great waters. 12:10 When I heard, my belly trembled, 12:13 my lips quivered at the voice, 12:16 rottenness entered into my bones, 12:18 and I trembled in myself, 12:20 that I might rest in the day of trouble, 12:23 when he cometh up unto the people, 12:26 he will invade them with his troops. 12:28 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, 12:31 neither shall fruit be in the vines, 12:34 the labor of the olive shall fail, 12:36 and the fields shall yield no meat, 12:39 the flock shall be cut off from the fold, 12:41 and there shall be no herd in the stalls, 12:44 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, 12:48 I will joy in the God of my salvation. 12:52 The Lord God is my strength, 12:55 and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, 12:59 and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. 13:03 To the chief singer on my stringed instruments." 13:08 Continuing now with the Book of Zephaniah, Chapter 1. 13:12 And this is the King James Version. 13:16 "The word of the Lord which 13:17 came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, 13:20 the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, 13:24 the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah 13:27 the son of Amon, king of Judah. 13:30 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, 13:34 saith the Lord. 13:36 I will consume man and beast, 13:38 I will consume the fowls of the heaven, 13:40 and the fishes of the sea, 13:42 and the stumbling blocks with the wicked, 13:44 and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord. 13:49 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, 13:52 and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 13:54 and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, 13:57 and the name of the Chemarims with the priests, 14:00 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops, 14:03 and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, 14:05 and that swear by Malcham, 14:08 And them that are turned back from the Lord, 14:10 and those that have not sought the Lord, 14:13 nor enquired for him. 14:15 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God, 14:18 for the day of the Lord is at hand, 14:20 for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, 14:23 he hath bid his guests. 14:25 And it shall come to pass in the day 14:27 of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, 14:30 and the king's children, and all such 14:33 as are clothed with strange apparel. 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Revised 2014-12-17