Nahum 1:2 KJV
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Scofield's Notes says,
The great ethical lesson of Nahum is that the character of God makes Him not only "slow to anger," and "a stronghold to them that trust Him," but also one who "will not at all acquit the wicked." He can be "just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Rom 3:26) but only because His holy law has been vindicated in the cross.
This passage in no way minimizes
Micah 7:18 KJV
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
God's character is to delight in mercy, and as wonderful a character as that is, what makes it even more wonderful is that He accomplishes this mercy by vindicating holiness. He does not merely sweep sin under the carpet. He doesn't just ignore our sin nature. God looks full face into our sin and pours His fury, vengeance and wrath out upon it.
But not upon us; that would have spelled our eternal doom. God became one of us, a man. He identified Himself with fallen humanity in the Person of Jesus Christ and then, once fulfilling the righteousness of the Law, God poured the wrath He had reserved for His enemies upon Christ.
What a glorious salvation!
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Scofield's Notes says,
The great ethical lesson of Nahum is that the character of God makes Him not only "slow to anger," and "a stronghold to them that trust Him," but also one who "will not at all acquit the wicked." He can be "just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Rom 3:26) but only because His holy law has been vindicated in the cross.
This passage in no way minimizes
Micah 7:18 KJV
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
God's character is to delight in mercy, and as wonderful a character as that is, what makes it even more wonderful is that He accomplishes this mercy by vindicating holiness. He does not merely sweep sin under the carpet. He doesn't just ignore our sin nature. God looks full face into our sin and pours His fury, vengeance and wrath out upon it.
But not upon us; that would have spelled our eternal doom. God became one of us, a man. He identified Himself with fallen humanity in the Person of Jesus Christ and then, once fulfilling the righteousness of the Law, God poured the wrath He had reserved for His enemies upon Christ.
What a glorious salvation!
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