Nebuchadnezzar’s Humiliation!

from Google Images

Although the judgment of God was revealed against Nebuchadnezzar, it didn’t have to occur, as the king dreamed it would. The Lord never punished his people without offering them a grace period, in which they could repent. In fact, this is what occurred to the king of Assyria in the days before Assyria made war against Israel and destroyed Samaria, and took the children of Israel captive. In the Book of Jonah, the prophet was sent to preach to Nineveh and warn the city of the Lord’s intended judgment. The king of Nineveh called for a fast and the city repented, so God repented of the evil he had predicted would occur. Jonah prophesied in the days of Jeroboam II prior to the Lord’s judgment upon Samaria (2Kings 14:23-25). As the Book of Jonah reveals, God’s judgment didn’t fall upon Nineveh in the days of Jonah. Instead, the Lord didn’t judge Nineveh, until the days after Israel’s fall to Assyria, when the prophet called Nahum preached.