Hey everybody. Happy Monday and welcome to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. I hope today you're tuning into the briefing. I trust that it's back today. I was expecting it on the first last week. Me too. I was checking out, refreshing, and it didn't show up. I know. I was so mad, disappointed. Disheartened, I owe my podcast provider, which is, I use overcast an apology because I thought maybe they're just behind. Maybe they're not syncing up with the stream. But no, I think it's just that it's not back yet. I was disappointed. Yeah, me too. Me too. Hey, I mentioned we got a couple other questions. Let's deal with with another one. Matthew. We're gonna get to yours tomorrow. Matthew, just as you're listening, know that we're gonna get to yours tomorrow. And so it was a great question. We're gonna hit that. But Lily and Kim, she sent in a question and she wanted to know this. She said with the millennial kingdom we've been talking about the millennial kingdom being a place where there is still sin. And so because there is still sin, there is still the wages of sin, which is death. So the question she asked, which is always which is insightful, I think is if there's physical debt, they're in the millennial kingdom. Where do the believing individuals who die, go when they die? Do they go to where Christians normally go? If the Christian were to die today, and this one's one of those, really it's harder to answer than just saying yeah, they go to be in, in heaven because to be absent from the body. Is to be present with the Lord. In the millennial kingdom the Lord is at least the person of Jesus Christ is reigning on earth during the millennial kingdom. And so there's, in the Bible there's two resurrections. So I'm gonna give it my best guess, my best shot here. And then pr, I'd love to get your thoughts on it too. The first resurrection happens concurrent with the rapture of the church. The saints, the believers, they receive their glorified bodies at that point. And then we, during the millennial kingdom, in our glorified bodies are reigning with Christ. And so believers that have already died and received their glorified bodies, they won't die during the millennial kingdom. They won't sin during the millennial kingdom. We will be. With Jesus, and we will be in our glorified state. There's a second resurrection that happens at the great white throne, and that is where the unbelievers, those that have rejected God, those that have rejected the gospel, and Jesus, they will be resurrected to receive their resurrected bodies at that point. And those are going to be bodies that are prepared for the lake of fire, which is the eternal place of torment for those that have rejected God. So you've got these two resurrections. The great white throne happens after it's the second. Resurrection happens after the first resurrection, which happens at the the rapture. So in between the millennial kingdom, I don't believe, and maybe I'm wrong on this, I don't believe that they're gonna die and then immediately receive the resurrected bodies and take their seats next to the glorified saints. Maybe they will. It's possible that they may die and go to be in the presence of the father, and that perhaps that. Part of the second resurrection is that they will receive their resurrected bodies during the second resurrection. We know during the tribulation period, which is a point of time when believers will die, that they go to be before the throne because Revelation depicts that there's the, those that are calling out for justice saying When are we gonna be avenge those that die for their faith during the tribulation period that precedes the millennial kingdom. But we do know that during that period of time they don't receive the resurrected bodies yet after they die, they go to be in the presence of God. And so my guess is that there's a similar resting place for those that died during the millennial kingdom until the new heavens and new Earth are inaugurated and they will receive the resurrected bodies at that point. I could also go along with the fact that they receive them immediately and go to terrain next to the believers at that point too. I think what you're pointing out is that. The text doesn't tell us explicitly, yes. We don't know. That's a short answer. We don't know it's either gonna be during the actual millennial end of Christ that they are given immediate, glorified bodies or at some time afterward. We just don't know. We're speculating, we're guessing either works. I could see both making sense chronologically and even theologically. I could see people being glorified during that thousand years and, in experiencing that trans, that translation and that transformation, immediately what I could also see that God would wait and would desire to do things in a need and orderly way. Short answer is, I don't know. Everything you said sounds good. I don't have a firm answer on that. I'd like to believe that there made. Glorified instantaneously. You die and you really don't die. But then why is death even necessary at that point? Could Jesus just not speak a word and say, you're glorified now. There's so many questions that I have. It's a great question, Lily, and I think, I'm glad that you're thinking in those ways, but there's just so few answers for us that are explicit regarding that time, that timeframe. Yeah. Yeah. That's part of the secret things that belong to God. But it's exciting things though. We'll get to witness it at some point, which is really cool to think about as well. Let's jump into Nahum today. We've gone through Nahum. One of the books that we covered this summer during our minor profits series. The author is the title of the book. It's the Prophet Nahum, and he's going to address nine us. So this is a lot of ways, Jonah, part two and it's not as good for the Assyrians as Jonah was not by a long shot. Ham's name means comfort. The region that he's from is a re town called Elko, which is really. Generally unknown, but likely part of Judah given the date of writing here. And as he's addressing Nineveh, it, it seems that this is still for Judah and that's how I preached it, at least when I went through it. But I don't believe that Nahum is going to the Assyrians. Preaching to them the way that Jonah did. I believe this is a message that is from God announcing the judgment that is coming upon the inhabitants there of Assyria and he's comforting the people of Judah 'cause remember what we've just been studying in these other books and Second Chronicles and Second Kings, the Assyrians. Have been coming against God's people. The Assyrians were laying siege to the city. Akra was blaspheming, God, the rabbis Shaka was as well. So you've got all of these things taking place here and the book of Naham slots in here to remind God's people that God is a God of justice and they can take comfort in knowing that he will judge and he will. Even as verse three says, by no means clear the guilty. And so it's a book about judgment, but it's also a book of comfort because it's there to comfort God's people as Nahum announces the impending judgment that's going to befall the Assyrians, and that's ultimately gonna happen in the year six 12 BC as Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian forces are going to fulfill God's prophecy by putting an end to the Assyrian people and to Nineveh itself. Yeah, I would agree. It's probably best to understand this as. About Assyria, but for Judah to comfort them that God is in fact a just God. And I can imagine there's times in our life, even our lives, where we would be comforted by the fact that God is just, and no one's going to escape his justice. It's hard for us to put ourselves in their sandals because we don't understand the same kind of pressures and stresses that they felt. But if we do, just take a breath here. Given how. Heavy Nhem can feel. And by the way, the, his name I think fits with this book he's in. It's intending to provide comfort to God's people about what God's going to do. Now, nhem, by the way, just in case you're wondering, is a shortened form of Nehemiah. So if you hear the similarity there, it's because they're related. They're related in the, in their words. Anyway, my point is justice is a comforting truth for Christians when we recognize that God is going to do always what is right and good, no matter what that looks like. It's hard for us to read some of these words that he keeps his wrath for his enemies that he's an avenger, he's wrathful. Those are true things about God. It's what we were talking about yesterday. We don't understand like the love of God until we understand the justice and the judgment of God. And so this is important for us to recognize as we see the world around us broken. We see injustice, we see things that are broken in terms of our relations with one another. There are people in high ranking positions that continue to get away with evil. There are evil things being done against the weakest and the most vulnerable among us. There's always evil being perpetuated. And so something like this, as heavy as it is also a great comfort to Christians who are saying, Maratha, come quickly, Lord Jesus. So mayhem isn't comforting, is comforting to those who are longing for his return, which I think encapsulates all of us really. Yeah, and it's really the answer I, it's. It's interesting that Habakkuk comes right after this because Habakkuk was God saying, I'm gonna use this evil people to judge Judah. And Habakkuk was saying, wait a minute, you can't do that. And that's some of the tension that's resolved by Nahum because God then answers Habakkuk to say, it's gonna be okay, I'm gonna judge them as well. Justice is gonna be done and Nahum is about, okay, justice is gonna be done against the Assyrians here. Yeah, this is this is something that is, even to your point it's not something that we often associate with that. But if you look at verse 15 of chapter one, behold upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news and publishes peace, the good news in the peace is about the destruction of Assyria and the Ninevites were going to receive. In recompense what they had dolled out to others. And that's, he's talking about that in chapter three. That's why he introduces in verse eight, thieves. Thieves was the capital city of Egypt, and Thieves had been defeated by the Assyrians. And so God is saying, Hey, you took down thieves, but do you think you're any better than thieves? And he goes in and in verse 10 is in particular, pretty graphic to describe some of the things that they had done to these Egyptians when they conquered them. And God was basically saying to the ass, Syrians, as you have done to others. So it will be done to you that you're gonna receive retribution for the things that you have done. And the book is sobering in its conclusion when he says in verse 19. There's no easing your hurt. Your wound is grievous all who hear the news about you, clap their hands over you for upon whom has not come, your unceasing evil. And so God is telling Assyria, you're gonna go down and nobody's gonna be upset about this, and nobody's gonna mourn for you. And so it was a sobering message, but again not one of. A, a call for repentance. You'll notice it's not there. You can read through the book and it's not a call for them to return. It's not a call for them, like in Jonah to leave off their sins. This was, the it's done. And that's a sobering reminder too, because that day is coming for all of mankind. There's a moment that is coming where it's too late, where you can. Repent. You can't return. Where really what it is at that point is God is announcing justice, he's announcing judgment, and that judgment is sure, and that judgment is gonna be unrelenting and that judgment is irreversible. And so this is a book that should sober us even as Christians, to remember as we consider the lost in our lives, that right now is the time that we can go to them as Jonah. Because eventually there's gonna come a time where they're gonna hear the judgment of God as it's revealed in the Book of Nahum. So it's a, an evangelist evangelistic motivation, hopefully as well for us to say, let's get after calling people to return to the Lord while there's still time to seek him, while he may still be found. I would also add too, that this book. Reminds us that God is not a God, as you said recently to be trifled with. He's not a God that you should look down upon. We're not to be cavalier with him. God's godness is what demands that we have a high view of him and this is why we don't like, we're not comfortable with things that make God appear more lowly or familiar than what he is. We don't refer to him as daddy God, we don't say things like, Jesus is my homeboy. It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with those. We would not say that's a sin per se, but we would say it communicate something about God that we don't think best encapsulates what scripture says about him. He's a high holy God. There is a right sense in which we fear him. Again, we clarify. It's not a cile fear as though we're shaking in our boots. It's a loving fear, an adoration, an admiration of respect, a healthy kind of robust awareness of his position, his power, and his authority. It's not too dissimilar, from the way that you tell your kids to interact with fire. We love fire. We appreciate the effects, the benefits that we derive from it, but we don't let our kids play with their toys around the pilots. We don't let our kids, hang out around the fireplace when the fire is roaring or even with a gun. We don't let our kids play with guns and say, yeah go for it. Hang out with it. Call it your toy or whatever else, and just shoot it any way you want. We understand those things when it comes to physical objects where we could potentially be physically damaged and there is a spiritual undoing that can happen when you encounter the holiness of Gods. The Isaiah chapter six, and so therefore we interact with him aware of as. Scripture says the kindness and severity of God. There is a kindness to him that is irresistible, beautiful, so attractive, and there's also a severity, a recognition that he is not a God who is a toy. You can't play with him and say, I want you to be part of my life here, but not part of my life there. He's a high holy and. Blazing in his beauty, in his glory, kind of God, but we don't take lightly. And so Naham is a really good reminder of the heaviness, the weightiness of his glory. It's not just all good. There is also a sharp, jagged side to his holiness that demands justice. Yeah. And that's why it's so amazing that we get to do week in and week out, what we got to do yesterday and what we're, if he tarries and we're still here. What we're gonna do next Sunday too, that we get to gather and come before him corporately and sing to him and sing songs expressing such intimacy before him. It's this juxtaposition that is, is so sweet to us as believers when we really understand it, that should just fuel our worship even more and cause us to love it even more. And desire to be in his presence all the more, and to be with his people all the more, it's a, yeah, he's a kind and severe God at the same time. And that's a difficult line to, to try to walk, but it's one that we. That's what the Christian life is figuring out what that looks like. Let's pray and then we will be done with the Book of Nahum. God we thank you for that reality that though you are severe, you are holy, you are righteous. We get in your kindness, your grace and mercy to approach you. I pray that we wouldn't ever treat that. Too casually that we wouldn't take that for granted or look down upon it with contempt Lord, but instead that we would trust you and we would revere you, and that we would praise you, and that we would honor you as we should every single day of our lives. Lord, give us opportunities to call the lost around us to repent before it's too late. And God, give us the winsomeness as a church body to make an impact here in the lives of those that still need to bow the need of Jesus Christ as the Lord's Savior. So we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep your new Bible tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Yes, bye.

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