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NAHUM
(660 B.C.)
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Nahum 1:3 The Lord is slow to
anger and of great forbearance,
But the Lord does not remit all
punishment.
He travels in whirlwinds and storm,
And clouds are the dust on His feet.
He rebukes the sea and dries it up.
Actually God never angers, we
project our human feelings onto him; but He is an infinite,
never changing and perfect Being. He is the source and
center of all existence, all creation, and all reality.
Perhaps the prophet is referring unknowingly to Melchizedek
here, but much more likely he is projecting his own feelings
and emotions upon a God that he reveres but does not fully
understand. The Urantia Book teaches us that it is our
perceptions of God that change and that God is eternal and
unchanging. When we are at the beginning of our development
we fear the great and powerful God, but as we develop, we
begin to understand that God’s true motive towards us is one
of love. Our fear evolves through awe, reverence, and
appreciation, and finally to love. "Fear is the beginning of
wisdom, but love is at its end." And so, this passage above
is one of many that misunderstand God’s true motives and
intentions. The Urantia Book tells us that "Jesus did not
hesitate to appropriate the better half of a scripture…" and
that he "appropriated the positive portion…" (Paper 159).
All human truth is partial and incomplete. We must
always separate the wheat from the chaff, using both the
external facts available and the internal guiding of The
Spirit of Truth. Logic and intuition are both necessary and
interdependent. The approaching age will be the age of Faith
and Reason; Science and Religion; Intuition and Logic;
Divine and Human; Matter and Spirit. And is replacing
either/or in the harmonized philosophy of our near future.
The Urantia Book is the stone on which such a philosophy
will be built. And so, we proceed, appropriating the best in
scripture, as did Jesus himself.
Nahum 2:1 Behold on the hills
The footsteps of a herald
Announcing good fortune!
"Celebrate your festivals O Judah.
Fulfill your vows.
Never again shall scoundrels
invade you,
They have totally vanished."
The herald is the final prophet
announcing to Judah, modern Jews, that 'their divine being',
Messiah/Melchizedek, reigns.
That scoundrels "never again"
invade identifies this scripture with the end of the Age,
messianic period. Scoundrels may still exist, but never
again will they be given the right to oppress others. As we
well know, "your right to swing your fist stops at anyone
else’s nose." Justice will reign over the world for the
first time.
Moving ahead we next stop at Zephaniah on our
chronologic journey. |
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