Devastation, desolation, and destruction! These three words in Nahum 2:10 carry the same destined meaning of doom for the wicked city of Nineveh. The city and its king unabashedly celebrated violence and the spillage of blood. The more, the merrier. In her book Jonah And The Worm, Jill Briscoe pictured Assyrian chariots fitted with razor-sharp instruments…

The reading of the 12 minor prophets in the Bible is like fasting. Either neglected or without intention for fulfilment. I have heard preachers and teachers speaking from Hosea, Joel, Micah, Zechariah, Malachi, definitely Jonah; my youth pastor spoke from Habakkuk not long ago but almost never from Nahum, probably the least in the already…