The book of Nahum contains the message that Jonah wanted to preach to the Ninevites; it is a message of condemnation and destruction. Jonah’s message, which came about one hundred years before this was a message of hope for the Gentiles, indicating, as it did, that the gospel would be preached to the Gentiles only after the death, burial and resurrection of the messenger. If you remember the story of Jonah, you will recall that the Ninevites repented. However, within a few generations the pride of national success had blinded the Ninevites to the truth of the gospel and that had returned to their idols and to sin, became the enemy of the Lord and doomed to destruction. It is this destruction of 612 BC the Nahum is preaching to the Ninevites.
While Nahum 1:7 shows that there is mercy for the faithful Ninivite, verse 15 shows that peace for God’s people will be the result of victory over the enemy. This is the message of the Gospel. When Adam sinned in the garden he was neither loved by Satan nor owned by God – he became an alien from God and a captive of Satan. The peace of the gospel then is the peace of conquest. The peace of the gospel (in the circumstances of life), is found only in the conquest of Christ on Calvary. All the peace the human heart ever experienced flows from Calvary.
But peace is not merely a human emotion, Christ is peace. He is OUR PEACE (Ephesians 2:14, Micah 5:5). This is what the Angels meant when they sang “peace on earth.” They did not mean that there would be a universal cessation of violence, an absence of war or no more calamity. He is our peace.
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Aaron Dunlop, who is originally from Northern Ireland, graduated from the Geneva Reformed Seminary, SC. He pastored for ten years in Victoria, British Columbia and is currently preparing to move to Kenya with his family to work with the FAME Reformed Theological College.