Death Of A Nation – I’ve Got Good News And Bad News (Nahum 1:1-3)

“Nineveh was home to an immense library. In fact, it’s considered the world’s first “universal” library. Ashurbanipal sought to assemble all the written knowledge of Mesopotamia. It had all sorts of books. History and sorcery and philosophy and old epics and botanical works. They’ve even found collections of jokes and riddles there.

Isn’t it interesting that, of all the prophetic writings, Nahum’s is the only one called a book? The only one prepared not as a sermon, but something to be read? Perhaps they received it after all.”