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MI: Earthly kingdom rise and fall, but the kingdom of God shall stand forever
RW: To tell exiles that God is still in control
1. Daniel 2:44
(ESV)
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
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MI: Gods providence through a Jewish Queen (Saving her people from annihilation)
RW: God has not abandoned the Jews in exile
2. Esther 4:14
(ESV)
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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MI: Despite countless warnings, Judah goes into exile for 70 years
Broken covenant = broken heart for God + exile for Judah
RW: To show Judah they are in exile because they broke the covenant
3. Jeremiah 25:11-12
(ESV)
This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
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MI: Repent or another judgment of locusts (God’s army) will come
RW: To call Judah to repent of sins before the Day of the Lord comes
4. Joel 2:25
(ESV)
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
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MI: God is merciful to all nations and people, including Nineveh
RW: Salvation is for all people
5. Jonah 4:11
(ESV)
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?
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MI: Grief over Jerusalem
RW: Communal lament for the Jews to mourn the destruction of Jerusalem
6. Lamentations 3:31-33
(ESV)
For the Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.
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MI: Destruction and Judgment in Nineveh
RW: - To announce judgment of Assyria
- To comfort Judah that God will judge their enemies
7. Nahum 3:7
(ESV)
And all who look at you will shrink from you and say,
“Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?
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MI: Edom will be judged for how they treated Israel
RW: - The betrayal of a brother
- Comfort for Judah that God will judge Edom
8. Obadiah 10
(ESV)
Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
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